RightNote
Advanced notes and information manager for Windows
What is RightNote?
RightNote will help you get a grip on information overload. It is designed to be easy to use for the new-comer, but also provide advanced features once your notes start to accumulate. RightNote can store text notes, source code, spreadsheets and webpages. Find info as you type with highlighted search results.
It also has a range of unique and advanced features such a bookmarks (with webpage thumbnail), tags, note and page transfer tools, hoist, evernote integration, export to mobile/web book and more.
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RightNote Features
RightNote information
Supported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Todo List Manager
- Note-taking
- keynote
- rich-text
- getting-things-done
- onenote
- plaintext
- Screenshot Capture
- screenshots
- tree
- Spreadsheet
- tree-structured-word-editor
- clipping
Recent user activities on RightNote
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I have been using RightNote since 2009 and love it. I am a linux user and RightNote works perfectly with every version of WINE I have used.
I invested several weeks in reviewing the available windows note saving programs. I found Rightnote to be exactly what I was looking for. It was easy to use and has an interface that I find to be perfect for the thousands of pieces of information that I use in my business. I had hundreds of text files with information and I find that Rightnote makes it very easy to put them in a format where I can find them and use them. Even better, I found a small problem with the program and the author immediately set out to fix them. The support is excellent! While the program has enough features to keep me busy for several months learning them, I was able to immediately start using it to organize my data. I now keep at least two instances of it open all the time on my computer and we access the files across our LAN.
!!WARNING!! When you buy Rightnote you are told that the developer will have to send you your license information.
The developer seems to have vanished.
This is nonsense.
I just upgraded my license via the developer's (BauerApps) web site to version 5.8 in January 2022. The credit card payment was handled by Fastspring without any issues and I received the activation key within minutes.
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RightNote has many different data types on which to base notes - including spreadsheet, rich text, rich view (super-charged rich text), memo, source code, and evernote. Creating and mantaining nested tables is a snap in rich view. pages can be exported as "web book" which is a complete export of pages and notes (tree structure of a page) with images and tables and all other formatting. I used to use Keynote NF but this is much better and more functional.
After a month of non-delivery paypal refunded my money for RightNote. Be warned that the developer has seemingly vanished and the way he set things up was having to manually mail you your license key.
[Edited by superstickynotemealt, May 14]
Developer is definitely still there. He just responded to a question I had. Also, I see on the website that there is a version update on 12 January 2021.
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I upgraded to version the new version 5.8 in January 2022. License key arrived minutes after payment processing.
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I have used and purchased everything from big products like OneNote, EverNote and Google keep, to small indy products like RightNote looking for the perfect all in one note/data application. It's like Goldilocks and the three bears. Each of the big guys cripple their product in some way as a part of their market strategy, and so using any one meant giving up some basic feature like formatting, sorting, tables, etc.
RighNote ticked the most button in terms of features that are lacking, and added some great ones like securing the information with local encryption, and an ability to sync notes with EverNote.
While the interface is dated and in some places common functions are in unusual places, generally it is highly functional. I purchased RightNote and have used it extensively for about 1 1/2 years.
Over time I have stopped using it as I have had continual crashes and error messages related to it's underlying database. This happens regardless of my hardware (two different desktops and a laptop) or operating system (Win 10 pro and home).
11/13/2022 3 years later, I'm looking for PIMs for web clipping again because of work.
(--) RightNote still uses Internet Explorer to process the html ─ although many note apps are improving and benefiting from web technology! ─ is used and does not handle web clipping properly. If you paste something copied from the web in Evernote's note function, it works fine at first, but when you click it again, the CSS is deleted and its shape is all messed up. During the three-year period, Evernote improved their app. (Although not available offline is a mistake)
(-) Despite adding Evernote from the Context Menu, it just creates a plain note. Is this because of the trial period? How to add Evernote notes?
3 years ago (+) The various functions function as they were intended, and as the program pursues, I feel more intensive than Evernote or Onenote.
(+) Various themes are supported, so the aesthetics of UI. Dark theme!
(-) The browser's capture features seem to recognize only chrome and firefox; they do not recognize browsers such as the Chromium source-based Opera, Vivaldi, and Brave. The browser's exe was specified as the option's 'Use web browser at specified location' but was not recognized.
(-) Dispersal of feature options seems to need improvement. Let's talk about colors: Paragraph colors, background colors, font colors, etc. I wasted an hour to replace the background color of the note, and then I succeeded in replacing the BG color in 'Edit Page'. Before you found this, you could change the background color on the theme or other menus, but it did not respond or went back to its original state.
If I remember anything, I'll rewrite it later.