RightNote
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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.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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Platforms
- Windows
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Comments and Reviews
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.
!!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.
Reply written Apr 15, 2022
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.
Reply written Jan 28, 2021
I upgraded to version the new version 5.8 in January 2022. License key arrived minutes after payment processing.
Reply written Apr 15, 2022
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.
I purchased the program in 2017 because it had a lot of elements I liked but one of the most important was "Rightnote floating tree" which the description said it had. After multiple times trying to activate this "floating tree" I finally contacted the developer who said that feature was not available and would be added. Well I purchased an upgrade but no "floating tree" now 2 years later and another upgrade still I do not see any listing for a "floating tree" so I will not be upgrading software that obviously has deceptive advertising.