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Notae Slowness in Leopard

Adam Knight — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:16:29 -0600

Unfortunately, Spotlight in Leopard has a bug. A pretty bad one.

As the notes change, Spotlight feels the need to hit the Spotlight index file 22-27 times for no reason, and only for some people. Two out of my three machines are affected. I’ve been told there’s nothing I can change and that I should wait on an update to the OS to resolve the issue.

This sucks, generally, but looking at how the issue presents, I can’t see a clear way around it (as notes change, I load a new NIB — the act of reading the NIB causes Spotlight to go haywire).

I’ll post a note here when I have more information on it. If you either have access to read it, or want to “vote” for it, it’s bug 5591746.

Day Job

Adam Knight — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:25:28 -0600

The products at CP may see a little longer of a delay than I’d like, with refreshes possibly in the February timeframe. That saddens me, but there’s no way around it, my day job is taking up far too much of my time.

However, that doesn’t mean you have to go without quality Mac software. I’m a co-founder of Barton Springs Software and we just released a beta version of our first major product, Prosperity. It’s a desktop personal finance program written exclusively for the Mac and includes the ability to connect to banks that offer OFX servers and download your transactions from them. It, of course, also allows for file imports from QIF and OFX as well as manual entry.

Feel free to get in on the beta by going to the site and signing up for the mailing list. You’ll get instructions from there.

Leopard Compatability

Adam Knight — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:04:41 -0600

I was on vacation for the release of Leo, so I’m a little late for the final compatibility scorecard. As far as I can tell:

Notae runs fine in Leopard. I’ll do some more testing to make absolutely sure every feature works well, but I’ve been checking all along and nothing’s obviously broken.
My CUPS-PDF distribution does not work in Leopard. I’m sure it’s something simple and I’ll look into it soon.
Text Reader and Launchd Editor have not been tested in Leo, but I expect no problems as these are very simple programs.

I’ll look into this more this week and see if anything needs to be done.

Vacation

Adam Knight — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:06:21 -0500

I’ll be on vacation until November 5th. Contact of any kind will be delayed until I return. Comments on the support site and this site will be disabled in the mean time as I will not be here to monitor for spam, etc.

I’ll try and clear out the inbox before I go, though…

Notae 2.2.1 Released

Adam Knight — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:27:08 -0500

Fixes

Comments for new notes are now empty.
Tag browser resets when a new note is made.
The demo period now resets for unregistered users of older versions.

Notae Translations

Adam Knight — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:39:58 -0500

The reason that Notae 2.1 removed the translations is that I really needed to add some UI elements and get an update out but couldn’t really wait on the translations for all the translations I’d added so far.

Now that I really look at the user base for Notae (the sites that give it news and the IPs downloading it), French- and German-speaking countries are growing in number very quickly.

For future versions of Notae, I’d like to limit the translations to just three: English, French, and German. I think that about covers everyone.

I’m going to push out a 2.2.1 later today with some small fixes, but for 2.2.2 I’d like to go to this model. Any French or German speakers care to translate the remaining strings? Most of them have been done already, I believe. There’s just a dozen or so missing.

Notae 2.2

Adam Knight — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:12:56 -0500

Notae 2.2 has been released has been released with the following enhancements.

Features

Notes can be set as templates and inserted into other notes via a contextual menu.
Added the ability to automatically save a document when closed.
The search field can now match partial tag names in both All and Tag modes.
Contextual menus on table and text area for actions such as duplicate and export as well as the setting of many note attributes, including locked status, adding and removing tags, and template status.
Added a preference for displaying the open document selector when no documents are open.

Fixes

Copy Note as HTML is more reliable.
Spotlight index is now more comprehensive and reliable. Documents will be reindexed when opened and the new index written out when the document is saved again.
Resolved potential crash when fetching web pages.
Focus now goes to the text area when switching notes.
Note header now reliably disables its fields when appropriate.
Escape properly ends editing of items in the table view now.
Info palette now properly saves changes if it is closed without moving out of the field being edited.
Tags can be dragged from the tags palette to the note header’s tag field now.
Table properly rejects files that are not importable.

Need help with this release? Use the new support site.

Increase the Number of Recent Documents

Adam Knight — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:58:38 -0500

You can issue the following command for any Cocoa application to increase the number of documents that it remembers in the Recent Documents menu item. In Notae it does something more and increases the number of documents it remembers in the document selector, since it’s the same list.

defaults write net.codepoetry.Notae NSRecentDocumentsLimit 99

If Notae were localized, would you be one of the people using a non-English localization?

Adam Knight — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:48:12 -0500

Notae 2.1

Adam Knight — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:38:36 -0500

Notae 2.1 does not include any languages other than English. If there is demand for these translations, they will be added at a later time. Please provide feedback if this is important to you.

Features

Complete AppleScript support for note and tag creation, data access and editing, and import/export.

Resizable Tag Browser area.

New URL downloading system allows for queued imports of many URLs at once.

Fixes

More robust note display system means that one Web Note failing to load will no longer cause other Web Notes to not display in the document.

More reliable handling of invalid selection metadata; notes will no longer occasionally not display.

Tag Browser now updates live as tags are created and assigned.

URLs dragged from Safari are properly titled with the name used in Safari for the URL.

The font menu handles corrupt fonts and font caches more robustly.

Updates are available via the update mechanism in the application or from the product page.