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What's New in Notepad 5.21
1. Added a new Preference under Projects/Reminders -
"Display Reminders after Date Change"
This lets you decide whether or not the reminders come up in the morning
after the date has changed. (or at 12:01 in the evening if you're up)
2. Support for Long Lists when expanding notes. When you press the right arrow
to expand a note, the list of current notepads comes up. This WAS previously
limited to 255 characters in the list. Now it is unlimited, and also reads
all drives.
3. Project Viewer now shows all Mondays in Bold, and viewing long notes while
in Project Viewer is faster.
4. Scrolling in Notepad with long notes is now much faster. There was a slow
down when notepad had to draw elipses (...) at the end of a long note.
We found a better way of doing this, and it is much faster.
5. After making changes to the Notepad Manager list, Notepad warns you to
reload the list from the Notepad Manager Options. (Load List option)
6. New Control Window accessed by pressing the space bar. Brings up a window
on the bottom of the screen that shows the name of the notepad that the
current note is expanded to, and the Application Link. The Space bar was
previously used to mark a note as done. Use Psion<-> for this now.
What's New in Notepad 5.2
From the Author:
You will find a multitude of new features in Notepad 5.2. Lots of
work has gone into making it a better program. Some of the changes
you might not even notice. For example, there is very little screen
blinking anymore. Only when necessary is the screen redrawn. Cursor
positions are handled in a much more intelligent way. The new dialing
feature is a big addition to Notepad. The new Server required all
of Notepad's alarm handling to be rewritten. The Server itself is a
much better program and incorporates the SoundOFF utility. At the
request of many users, the main screen in Notepad can be expanded to
full size, eliminating the button bar. There's lots more. The only
thing we're still lacking is the Map feature. That should be along
in the next version.
þ New Dialer feature lets you dial phone numbers through the modem.
To make this easier, Notepad uses the phone character to identify
phone numbers. In the editor, type in Psion<Help> to insert the
phone character before a phone number. Save the note. Highlight the
note, press Psion<Help> to bring up the dialer. Press <M> to dial
through the modem. When you hear the phone ringing, pick up the
phone and press Enter on the Psion to release the line. See the
manual for more detailed instructions.
Phones notepad - Notepad gives you a hotkey to get to your phone
list. First the expanded notepad must be called "Phones". To get
to it quickly, press Psion Shift<Help>. Notepad will open the
phones notepad, and bring up a search dialog.
þ New feature "Edit Style" on menu. This feature works with the
custom priorities. You can now assign a style to a custom priority.
This way you can use priorities themselves to force a certain
emphasis on a note. Psion<j> to edit style. Edit your custom
priorities to assign styles to them.
þ Many dialogs are now sensitive to the help key. Thanks to Alasdair
Manson at Psion Inc. for figuring out how to do this.
þ Move Note - New menu option.
þ With a empty notepad you have the dummy note with the text
<No Notes>. When you press enter on it to edit your first note,
the text editor recognizes that this is a dummy note, and doesn't
display <No Notes> in the editor. In stead you get a blank page.
þ Merge Fastnote - Allows merging to different notepads, one note
at a time.
þ New Hotkey: Remove Link to Expanded Notepad: Shift<left arrow>
þ Cursor position stays on the highlighted note after sorting, updating,
appending, etc. Notepad remembers cursor positions 5 levels back, so
that now when you expand a note, and go back to the previous note,
the cursor position is remembered.
þ Press the space bar in the Project viewer to see the parent notepad.
þ New Printing Features:
. Print Marked as Done (Printed with a *)
. Printing by Priority
þ When the date changes on the machine at night, Notepad automatically
checks for daily reminders.
þ 30% faster sorting
þ No more crippling in unregistered version. After 21 days you will be
reminded daily that you are using an unregistered copy. Writing to
Agenda feature is disabled after 21 days.
þ New Preference lets you eliminate the button bar.
Psion<Tab> is the hotkey for this.
þ Notepad no longer changes names on the system screen when opening
a different notepad. This was confusing. It always keeps the name of
the top level notepad on the system screen now.
þ Optional Clock on top of main window. (New Preference)
þ Adding Notes: Now you can just start typing. If the button bar is
showing the button keys are supported. If not, all keypresses
(A-Z, 0-9) start a new note.
þ Psion<@> brings up special options. These were shift<?> key
combinations that were removed to allow typing to start a new note.
þ Notepad supports IPC messaging (certain types only - defined in
signal.opl)
þ New AutoFill feature lets you save frequently used heading text used
in notes. ("Meeting at ", "Go to the Store ", etc.) Also allows some
minor macros like jumping to other running programs. (See manual)
þ New Custom Project Reminder screen.
þ Bug fixes in Text editor
þ Use Control<diamond> to go into the project viewer, going directly to
the highlighted month and day. (this was shift<p>)
þ Writing to Agenda supports different emphasis.
þ New Alarm Server
Server 1.0 now includes SoundOFF. Server 1.0 is a completely new product
that acts as Alarm Server and SoundOFF.
The new Server 1.0 can now run a macro without asking you to confirm.
When choosing a macro with an alarm, you are not prompted with an alarm
going off. The macro just runs.
When an alarm goes off in Server, you can press the system icon to go
anywhere you like. You do NOT need to answer the alarm dialog.
Registration for Server 1.0 is free to all registered Notepad users.
What's New in Notepad 5.11
This release is mostly a bug fix release. Past Due project reminders
will correctly be displayed at startup, if your preferences are set to
show these. A couple of other minor bugs were fixed.
Added one minor addition. When printing you can select "Print Dates" as
an option.
What's New in Notepad 5.1
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Agenda Support:
We've added support for writing notes to your Agenda. You will find a
new menu option called "Save Note to Agenda" under the "Links" pull down
menu heading. This brings up an Agenda Entry dialog.
The hotkey to write a note to Agenda is Shift<W>.
There are also new preferences for writing to Agenda. You have the option
of restoring the view Agenda was in when Notepad shut it down to save
your note.
Support for Linking to Word in Text Only mode:
This is the much asked for help for those that want longer notes, but
don't want to save big Word files. This option opens text files into
Word, but in text only format, meaning that when you press P