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July 12, 2005 

Natara has released version 1.5.1 of DayNotez Desktop and version 2.9.1 of Daynotez for Palm.

New in Desktop version 1.5.1:

SUMMARY OF MAJOR FEATURES: Export to HTML, CSV, Text, etc. Support for Keywords and Followup flags Support for entry templates (add, delete, modify or use existing handheld side templates) Ability to duplicate and existing entry Password prompting when showing DayNotez Desktop after it has been minimized Text filter now searches both entry text and keywords Ability to limit the date range of entries to work with, making DayNotez load faster in some cases Support for playing voice memos Ability to quickly set an entries date and time to "NOW". DETAILED LIST - Added: New status bar panel to indicate "All" entries are being loaded, or "Part" for partial load based on a date range (see previous bullet item) - Added: Disabled more controls for a more "user friendly" state when no data file is open. This should prevent users from hitting buttons that cause failures. - Added: Ctrl-Tab to sequence through the three tabs - Added: Better detection of true password protected data files. Other MDAC/ADO errors should now be reported and not interpreted as login issues - Added: Template Editing (see menu item "Edit->Edit Templates...") - Added: Time, Days Since, and Last Modified to CSV export - Added: Large button on blank screen to select a data file/hotsync user when none is currently open - Added: Status bar indicator that indicates when the custom view is filtered - Added: Latest DayNotez handheld build (refer to readme for handheld app for changes) - Added: Updated conduit (minor wording changes, etc.) - Added: ability to disable autoURL detect in editor - Added: ability to define "header" background color in Day View - Added: Custom Preview, Entry, and Day View background colors are now reflected in "Font" preview boxes in the prefs dialog - Added: Ability to define if the DateNav list initially starts out fully expanded or collapsed - Added: Voice Memo panel below DateNav for listening to voice memos. - Added: Menu item in "View" to exposing or hiding the Voice Memo panel - Added: Ability to Duplicate an entry. While in the entry tab, right click for context menu. Entire entry is duplicated with the exception of date/time, which is set to current date/time - Added: A "Now" button next to the date/time editors in the entry tab toolbar. Clicking on this item will reset the current items date/time to the current date/time - Added: Ability to set a limit to the entries being loaded (to save load time and memory). See "General Preference". Changes made to this will not take effect until after a restart of DayNotez Desktop or until you change users. - Added: Enhanced menu/toolbar look and feel - Added: Filter Text (search) will now also apply the search to the keyword. eg: Find "XYZ" in note text OR keyword - Added: Persistent category (saved on a per-user basis) - Added: Private and Follow up indicators in custom preview pane. - Added: URL links in custom preview pane. - Added: Follow up Flag to printouts - Added: Private and Follow up to "default new entries" preferences. - Added: Password protection when restoring from minimized (If password is enabled) - Added: Password protection when un-hiding private records ((If password is enabled) - Added: Basic block indent/outdent (Shift+Ctrl+] = indent / Shift+Ctrl+[ = outdent) - Added updated printer driver. Should not be noticeable to most. - Added: Custom tab context menu item for Setting and clearing the follow up flag on mulitple entries - Added: Custom tab context menu item for assigning a keyword to mulitple entries (basic text edit field for now) - Added: Custom tab context menu item for assigning a contact to mulitple entries (basic text edit field for now) - Added: Contact Name completion/lookup/edit added to Entry Tab. - Added: Contact Name completion/lookup/edit added to Custom Tab context menu dialog. - Added: Keyword completion/lookup/edit added to Entry Tab. - Added: Keyword completion/lookup/edit added to Custom Tab context menu dialog. - Added: Change the status bar just a bit to make a space between user/entry section and "caps/num/scroll" indicators - Added: Entry tab now displays only a single "New" button if you select a calendar date with no entries. Some users were confused when the Entry tab always displayed a - Added: Toolbar now again shows tooltip when you hover over them with the mouse. - Added: Reports now contain "Category / Keyword" information - Added: DayView now contains "Category / Keyword" information - Added: "Category/Filter" toolbar to the view menu. - Added: Ctrl-Shift-F as a hotkey for the text filter. - Added: "Aggressive Live Spell Menu" option in prefs. If you have problems right clicking on the live spell "squigglies" to get a context menu of suggested words, then enable this option. - Added: Added a prompt for overwriting existing files when exporting. - Added: You can use Alt-D to jump directly to the Date edit from the entry tab. - Added: Printout templates modified to reduce the amount of empty space between entries. - Added: Header for each entry in printouts now updated with same font of the user defined print font. - Added: Page header font now reflects font selected by user for printout. - Added: DayView Tab "Date Header" area now set to same font selected for the DayView entrys. - Added: Re-arranged main menu to be more in line with other standards. - Added: You can right click on the Custom list and choose "Export->Text/HTML/CSV" and do the same type of exports that you can do with the standalone export tool we offer non-DayNotez Desktop users. - Added: In the Entry view, there is now a toolbar field for Keyword. - Added: Entry view, there is now a checkbox to set or clear the followup flag. - Added: Entry view, the toolbars now wrap instead of hide with a cheveron. This is to avoid confusion for customs who didn't have the entry area large enough to show those items. - Added: Custom view, the Keyword field is now visable in the preview pane. - Added: Custom view grid, you can use the field chooser to add Keyword and followup fields to the list of columns - Chang: Improved speed time to create a new entry when there was a large data file. - Chang: DateNav list and Custom list should now always highlight the current item and not the parent item if the current item is the "topmost" grouped item - Chang: Double clicking on Preview pane header will now always take you to Entry tab with current entry - Fixed: bullets/numlist insertion when editor is not in "edit" mode - Fixed: More aggressive refresh after a hotsync. - Fixed: Tab order in entry area. - Fixed: Keyword printout from custom view - Fixed: Copyright date on Help/About box - Fixed: Removed 3d font effect in password dialog for easier reading - Fixed: Removed ability to click on date/time in status bar to jump to today since it had too large of a boundary - Fixed: Select HotSync User now centers on window - Fixed: Password dialog now centers on window - Fixed: Reworded dialog that informs users they need to sync prior to accessing their data - Fixed: security hole in encrypted data files. - Fixed: the "Save" icon to only be enabled when changes have actually been made - Fixed: When renaming one category to the same as another (Case Sensitive), the two are merged - Fixed: Category Edit dialog now correctly handles setting the proper category in the list - Fixed: Category Edit dialog now properly returns the selected category - Fixed: Category Edit dialog properly disables appropriate buttons - Fixed: print engine only printing 1 page - Fixed: When multi-selecting entries in custom view, same entry would print multiple times if grouping was included. - Fixed: Preferences (esp. category color) should not get wiped out if there are issues when initing the app. - Fixed: The data file name is based on the hotsync name, which may contain chars that are not legal for filenames. DnD now subst. _ for illegal chars. - Fixed: Persist cursor position in entry text after doing a "save". entry for a previous date when they clicked on calendar dates with no entries. - Fixed: The "Find" feature is no longer available unless you are in the entry tab. This is to help with confusion where some expect the "Find" to look through all entries as opposed to just the current one.

Changes in version 2.9.1 for Palm

New: - Added support for the PalmOne Treo 650 side button for voice memos. - Tapping on the voice memo icons on the Day and List views will open the entry and display the playback dialog. - The import of To Do's captures Agendus contact names and filters out icon and color meta-tags. - Added New and New Voice Memo menu items to the List view. - Start new entry from list view when character entered. Fixed: - Corrected the Edit menu in the edit template dialog. - Graffiti shift enabled when doing bullet or number list. - On some handhelds the category color dialog did not refresh properly after selecting a color. - The View Archive menu command was not always displayed when valid. - Do not apply the category of a template to an entry if the template category is Unfiled. - Sometimes the templates would not be sorted after synchronization. - Cursor position lost when editing a note and graffiti area hidden/shown.