Managing your day-to-day life is not an easy job to do. There are so many things to concern for – housekeeping, shopping, children… And what about cousin’s birthday you always forget or important phone numbers? Undoubtedly your working place is covered with dusty yellow (or blue, or pink) sticky notes. If so – PNotes is right for you. Throw the physical stickies away and replace them with virtual ones on your desktop.

PNotes (Pinned Notes or Portable Notes, use what you prefer) is written entirely in C and Windows API (with Pelles C for Windows IDE) – so it is fast and light-weight.

• Ease of use – no installation, just unpack the downloaded archive to any location and run PNotes.exe.
• Formatting – format and design each note as you wish, using all the advantages of rich text formatting.
• Skins – there is a variety of skins for PNotes but if you wish, you can run the program in skinless mode, in which case you can stretch notes to any reasonable size.
• Transparency – you can set notes’ transparency level from opaque to fully transparent. If you enable this feature each note can have its own transparency level.
• Scheduling – use various schedule types to be reminded about significant events by many different ways. Using this feature you may just hide notes and don’t worry, you’ll be notified in time.
• Overdue notes tracking – stay alerted even with overdue reminders.
• Password protection – prevents unauthorized access to program.
• Encryption – allows all your notes to be stored as encrypted files, so nobody could read their content, even in case you lose your USB stick.
• Control Panel – this is your central command post. All management is put into effect here.
• Groups – divide notes into groups of your choice, create new groups and subgroups, control all by mouse click or drag-and-drop.
• Docking – dock your notes to any side of the screen, forcing them always to be straightened and look like a panel.
• Searching – search for (or replace) text fragments in all notes, including hidden or in each separate note, or find notes with specified title.
• Favorites – access intensively used notes by a single click.
• Custom fonts – use your custom fonts which are not installed on current machine.
• E-mailing – send notes via e-mail as mail body text or as attachment to any target with PNotes running and open attached note on target machine.
• Recycle Bin – you decide how you want to delete the unneeded note: completely or send it to Recycle Bin with ability to restore it later.
• Backing up – you decide whether to make backup copies for changed notes and what is the deepness of backup levels.
• Internationalization – PNotes is fully Unicode supported and translated into many languages.
• Portability – PNotes does not require installation, it can be started from any drive (fixed or flash) and leaves no traces on host computer after finishing.
• Other features – of course there are many other unmentioned features in program, but I suggest you to discover them by yourself, these are delights of any new program, aren’t they?

Whats new:

• Fixed bugs:
  • Protection mode is not set properly from Control Panel
  • Notes.ini file is deleted during upgrade via installation by setup file
  • New diary note appears with zero width/height when “Custom diary settings” is selected without changing any of other options (discovered by zw963)
  • Autosave interval remains 1 minute regardless of changing on Behavior page (discovered by zw963)
  • Infinite loop while trying to replace the string by another string, which includes the first one, e.g. “dog” by “black dog” (discovered by zw963)
• New features:
  • Files smilies.images and groups.images recompiled – no more false positives from some anti-virus vendors
  • Enhanced search with ability to change search criteria and scope. All search dialogs merged into one (suggested by horstepp2)
  • Search for selected text in web with ability to manage search providers
  • Favorites group in Control Panel (suggested by horstepp2)
  • Favorites column in Control Panel (suggested by Sergey Christov)
  • Ability to hide/show columns in Control Panel (suggested by shigeoyoshio)
  • Option to choose note’s group while saving as/renaming (suggested by Lukas Baron)
  • Option to hide “X” (Delete) button on note (suggested by bejobe)
  • Trimming spaces and tabs from new note’s default name (suggested by patswovelin)
  • Ability to insert date/time stamp (suggested by benjamindover)
  • Hidden caret in preview window (suggested by tremblsi)
  • Click on new version information baloon opens PNotes download page (suggested by patswovelin)
  • Downloadable help files
  • More detailed help file with multiple “How to:” sections (suggested by shigeoyoshio)