Thread: mNotes problems
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Thanks, Khertan! mNotes version 0.3.2 works for me too. Overall I like it very much and expect to get a lot of use from it.

A few comments ...

It's crashed on me a number of times already, in a pretty short time. I don't know why.

It appears that the Search function (magnifying glass) searches only the content-field and not the title-field, too. I wish it searched both. While I'm most interested in the text-aspect of mNotes, and wish it searched those titles, ability to search titles is especially important for the drawings and photos, which have no text in the content-field.

It seems that I often have to hit the magnifying glass twice for it to execute a search.

I think there should be a one-button way to clear the search field and, at the same time, to return all the titles to the left pane after a search has been completed.

This change is probably already on your to-do list as an incomplete implementation of what you've done: Word-wrap is great and I'm immensely glad you have it; I wish, however, that it put its end-of-lines at the end of words and after punctuation, rather than after a set number of characters, which often puts breaks in the middle of words. (I like it that you made the pane widths adjustable, and that your word-wrap accommodates that.)

If the synchronization with Google worked, with what Google WebApp would it be synchronizing? (Personally, I've grandfathered into Google Notebook, so that would work for me. But, since Google is apparently discontinuing Notebook, that wouldn't be much help for most people.) Synching with a web-based notebook or PIM would indeed be fantastic.

If you're open to suggestions: I would really like it also if the Searched-for character string were highlighted when the field in which it is found opens.

And if mNotes could import and export in a widely-used format, that would be great. If import and export is made more difficult by including the drawing and photo capability, would you consider releasing a text-only sub-set of mNotes that could import and export in comma-delimited format? Or, better yet, could an import-export be devised that simply omitted the records that had more than text, thus allowing a complete mNotes but with simple, effective import-export capability for text records?

Where is the mNotes data file(s) located?

Thanks again for this program. I'd been looking for something like the old Macintosh Quickdex, and this is certainly the closest I've found. While I like the efficient simplicity of QuickDex, mNotes clearly has some worthwhile advantages. I like it.

(I hope I haven't stuck my nose into your business more than you like, as I realize all this is all unsolicited.)

Last edited by GeraldKo; 2009-02-08 at 17:34.