Author Topic: Note5 (Read 84,834 times)

c.gingerich · « **on:** June 17, 2014, 08:04 PM »

There is a Mac app and web app called 5iler (http://5iler.com) that I thought was a good idea but since it is only available for Mac I thought I would make one for Windows.

I call it Note5. You have a nice color interface that when you click on a color bar it opens a note that you can enter anything you want. Notes are auto-saved on the fly.

Please give it a try and let me know your thoughts.

Screen shot - http://snap.ashampoo.com/5ZkZHuRb

Download - https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B8PfRDn6GacXVDZFbWNpM09fY0U

skwire · « **Reply #1 on:** June 17, 2014, 08:24 PM »

Slick clone! Suggestions:

Focus the edit field when switching to a different note.
Hide to tray icon.
Hotkey for hiding/showing main window.

Nice work, Chris.

c.gingerich · « **Reply #2 on:** June 17, 2014, 08:50 PM »

Thanks! I'm sure I can add most if not all of those items :-)

wraith808 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 17, 2014, 08:52 PM »

And I must say... thanks for turning me on to 5iler. Yours is cool and a very well done clone... but having the web sync and always available no matter what is killer... a simplified version of what I use now... simplenote.

c.gingerich · « **Reply #4 on:** June 18, 2014, 05:24 PM »

Update: v1.0.0.12

Added tray icon, Full window view for notes, and fixed note focus bug.

I'm still working on other features so stay tuned.

Download - https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B8PfRDn6GacXVDZFbWNpM09fY0U

Screen shots

wraith808 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 18, 2014, 05:34 PM »

Full note view was a really smart addition!

c.gingerich · « **Reply #6 on:** June 18, 2014, 05:39 PM »

Thanks. I like having a bigger view if I have a lot of text to look at.

cschw · « **Reply #7 on:** June 19, 2014, 02:30 AM »

Very nice!

One bug I noticed was that clicking on 'About' from the menu button in the upper left corner brings up the expected window. But when I try to close the About window, the Note5 window doesn't take the focus. Instead the Windows Explorer window from which I opened the program takes focus, and I wasn't able to get the Note5 window to respond. This happened twice, so it appears to be reproducible.

(Win7 Home Premium 64-bit w/ SP1)

c.gingerich · « **Reply #8 on:** June 19, 2014, 11:21 AM »

OK I will look at that today. Thanks.

cschw · « **Reply #9 on:** June 19, 2014, 02:42 PM »

The more I use this, the more I like it. It's probably the simplicity that appeals to me.

Here are a couple of things that would be nice to see, if possible:
- Ability to customize the time/date format inserted when F5 is pressed
- 'Stay on Top' option (with a transparency setting would be ideal)

c.gingerich · « **Reply #10 on:** June 19, 2014, 03:58 PM »

Glad you like it. I'll add those ideas to my list. :-)

cschw · « **Reply #11 on:** June 19, 2014, 04:49 PM »

One more bug: Changing the title of the leftmost note isn't persistent. After restarting Note5, the title reverts to Note1 (unless I manually change the title in the XML file).

c.gingerich · « **Reply #12 on:** June 19, 2014, 05:43 PM »

That should have been fixed in the latest version 1.0.0.12 - Please download and try again. Make sure to not overwrite your Note5.xml file if you have notes in it.

cschw · « **Reply #13 on:** June 19, 2014, 06:12 PM »

Is there a way to verify which version I'm using? I'm still having the same issue after re-downloaded using the link posted in:

Quote from: c.gingerich on June 18, 2014, 05:24 PM

Update: v1.0.0.12

Added tray icon, Full window view for notes, and fixed note focus bug.

I'm still working on other features so stay tuned.

Download - https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B8PfRDn6GacXVDZFbWNpM09fY0U

Screen shots (see attachment in previous post) (see attachment in previous post)

tomos · « **Reply #14 on:** June 19, 2014, 06:22 PM »

very nice!

Is there a keyboard way of moving focus from one note to another?
if not, would it be possibly to add?
one of the typical shortcuts would probably be good Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+Arrowkeys or Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn (?)

I can confirm "Changing the title of the leftmost note isn't persistent" is still a problem - v.1.0.0.12

@cschw:

[attachimg=#]

c.gingerich · « **Reply #15 on:** June 19, 2014, 06:46 PM »

Thanks. I'll look into that again and I'll also see about adding a way to switch notes via keyboard.

c.gingerich · « **Reply #16 on:** June 19, 2014, 07:53 PM »

Version 2.0.0.0 is now available! Fixes and additions are:

- Fix bug when saving Note 1 title
- Fixed small bug where title text would get cut off after going to full window view
- Allowed TAB in notes
- Option to hide/show scrollbars
- Option to have full window view default
- Support mouse scrolling when no scrollbars are showing
- Added always ontop option
- Added transparency option
- Added version number to the titlebar
- Added ability to switch notes via keyboard (Ctrl+Left/Right arrows)
- Can now customize the date/time stamp
- Moved ReadMe to an external text file so as not to overwrite the Note5.xml when users update.
- Added color theme support

Download - http://note5.pen.io

Comments welcome!!!

MilesAhead · « **Reply #17 on:** June 19, 2014, 08:35 PM »

Thanks for sharing the program. I wonder if it's possible to add control f search without killing off the simplicity? I have a small Treepad file of OS Tips but since no note program I have tried will import the .hjt file I thought I'd break it out to a Panel in note5. Something simple like search with optional case sensitivity would move the cursor down to the appropriate area without scroll and read.

I like the idea. I was using a plain text editor with a temp text file for quickie notes. Naming the whole file after a single note I would forget the filename after a day or two.

If the case sensitive check mark or lack thereof could be saved across sessions or even per panel would be super. Or perhaps instead of an .ini setting just have 2 hotkeys. Control f for insensitive search and a 2 modifier f hotkey for case sensitive?

cschw · « **Reply #18 on:** June 19, 2014, 08:39 PM »

Quote from: tomos on June 19, 2014, 06:22 PM

--snip--
@cschw:
(see attachment in previous post)

Thanks for answering my stupid question....

c.gingerich · « **Reply #19 on:** June 19, 2014, 08:41 PM »

@MilesAhead - I'll see about adding a search to the notes.

cschw · « **Reply #20 on:** June 19, 2014, 08:51 PM »

Quote from: c.gingerich on June 19, 2014, 07:53 PM

Version 2.0.0.0 is now available!

--snip--

Comments welcome!!!

That was a quick turnaround! It works well, and I like the option for setting themes in the INI file.

Feedback on 2.0.0.0 (this time on win7 enterprise 64-bit w/ sp1):
- Selecting 'About' no longer hangs the program
- Transparency setting works well, but is reverse of what I was expecting (fully opaque at 100% transparency, fully transparent at 0% transparency)
- Themes show up multiple times (see screenshot below) - but this only appears to happen when Settings -> Themes is opened without selecting a theme. Each time this occurs, it appears to add another iteration of the Theme names in the menu

Thanks for creating this!

c.gingerich · « **Reply #21 on:** June 19, 2014, 08:56 PM »

Oops,

about the menu. I know what the problem is with that.

I'll fix that up later tonight.

tomos · « **Reply #22 on:** June 19, 2014, 10:46 PM »

Some suggestions (you've probably considered some of these already):

#1 only show scrollbars when text too long for window
#2 ability to reduce window to an ontop 'minibar'
#3 start with windows (I mean I can set it up - but would be nice to have in-app)
#4 ability to close to tray
#5 escape key to close window (to tray) - *or* to reduce to minibar (#2 above)

c.gingerich · « **Reply #23 on:** June 19, 2014, 11:55 PM »

@tomos - Yes, some I do have on my list. I will look into the others. Thanks for the suggestions!

c.gingerich · « **Reply #24 on:** June 20, 2014, 01:04 AM »

@tomos - What did you have in mind for a "minibar"?