Tabbed notebook / outliner with Rich Text editor, multi-level tree notes. Ideal for free-form or structured information. Stores many notes within one file. Each note can contain a hierarchical tree of topics.

Features:

• Powerful editing and formatting functions.
• Convenient and powerful search, including searching for text in all notes and boolean (AND/OR) search.
• "Virtual node" feature allows you to edit files on disk as if they were part of your KeyNote file.
• Macros, templates, plugins, printing.
• Ability to send notes via email.
• Very fast switching between notes and files.
• Fast, responsive and easy to navigate interface.
• Extremely configurable interface and behavior.
• Files can be protected with secure, strong encryption, using IDEA or Blowfish algorithms.
• User-configurable categories and icons.
• Text highlighting, word expansion glossary (auto-correct), bookmarks, expression evaluation.
• Import and export: text, RTF, HTML, TreePad.
• Clickable hyperlinks to Internet sites or local files.
• Clipboard capture, user-defined styles, drag-and-drop operations.
• Integrates with MS Office spellchecker and the freeware WordWeb thesaurus.
• Freeware, open-source.

What's New in version 1.6.5:

• In Options - Other you can now specify a custom web browser to use for launching URLs, or tell KeyNote to use the system default web browser.
• Added Paste as Web Clip command (Edit|Paste other or Shift+Ctrl+W). This command does a normal paste, but if HTML data is available on the clipboard, KeyNote attempts to retrieve the source URL address. If you copy text to clipboard from a web browser, KeyNote should paste the text together with the original location (URL) of the text. So far, his works only with Internet Explorer, because Mozilla does not place the URL on clipboard, while Netscape and Opera don't render CF_HTML format at all. (Settings for the Web Clip command are shared with Clipboard capture, but WCDivider and WCPasteAsText options can be modified via ini file.)
• Fixed problems with creating file type associations.
• Main windows state (minimized, maximized) should now be correctly preserved. Note that it might interfere with the "Start minimized" configuration setting or the "-min" command line switch.
• In tree-type notes, each node now has an independent word wrap setting. that is, word wrap can be ON for some nodes and OFF for others. (Initially each node uses the note's setting.)
• You may remember that, when the editor panel has focus, pressing Alt+Up or Alt+Down arrow navigates to the previous or next node in the tree. Now the reverse is also true: when the tree is focused, you can press Alt+Up or Alt+Down arrow to scroll the editor up or down.
• Small improvements in the Launch URL and Insert character dialog boxes.
• It is now possible to merge current file with itself. This is an easy way to create a copy of a note in the same file.