RedNotebook Portable 1.1.8 has been released. RedNotebook is a modern journal. It includes a calendar navigation, customizable templates, export functionality and word clouds. You can also format, tag and search your entries. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.
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- The data is stored in plain text files, no database is needed
- Translated into more than 20 languages
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John I was just about to upload it to you, I know w e skipped a version but apparently 1.17 had some windows issues. In the future is updating your responsibility or mine?
Yours
Generally yours. As 1.1.8 was just out yesterday, I was gonna wait. But as 1.1.7 was out a few weeks ago and you hadn't done it, I thought you were busy. If there is a reason to hold off on a release, just post it in the Outdated Releases thread. 1.1.8 does work, but is very slow starting with some antiviruses running (about 30 seconds on my main machine).
I had
posted it here as well as on the Rednotebook page, guess it was lost in cyber space
Sorry I thought you saw that I was waiting for a fix to the Issue in 1.17 affecting windows. No worries. I just got the download from Jendrik last night so all is good
oops maybe it was just here https://portableapps.com/node/28543 sorry
Slow to start
It is very slow to start on my machine as well (Vista laptop). Not only to start, but to install on the USB as well. I also had this with the previous 1.16 version, although I'm not sure if it's even worse now.
I didn't see anything about this on the RedNotebook forums so could it be a PA thing?
Rednotebook
Rednotebook itself (the unmodified local version) takes over 30 seconds to launch on my machine. The portable version is no different and has no changes from the local version in the app itself, so it takes just as long. It could be an interaction with Microsoft Security Essentials.
It's probably PA
Seeing how I like this program, but get a bit annoyed by the launch time I contacted the developer and he had not encountered such launch times. So, I did some testing.
If I take the regular 1.1.8 install from sourceforge and install it anywhere on my local HD or my USB, it runs like a charm and launches in 2 seconds. However, if I use the 1.1.8 PA .paf edition and install it anywhere it takes me 40seconds to over a minute with 50% CPU usage to launch. There is no difference between local HD and USB. After the launch both run equally well. Also, the location of the data files has no influence on the launch times.
So, it probably is an issue with the portable edition.
Bonus: a small thing I noticed on my USB, the program folder has a size of 43,2MB but on disk uses 159MB. Could it be related to the 4000+ very small program files?
Dairy data
So after all that tinkering with RedNotebook I just launched the original PA version from the menu and what do you know, it launched in a heartbeat. Afterwards it asked for the location of the dairy (I removed the testlocation). Giving the right location it loaded reasonably fast.
So, it probably has to do with opening the dairy while launching. Does that make any sense?
Odd
What do you have it load at startup? Just blank? My local copy loads the default one on startup and takes 30 seconds to start.
Incorrect location
I had it set to a temporary diary while testing to see if the location of the dairy had any impact on the matter. After deleting the temp folder I launched RedNotebook again. It came up immediately and asked for a location of my dairy, suggesting the default. Only after openening the default dairy the program had to work for a while again. Therefore, my conclusion is that the issue is with loading the dairy.
Does this make any sense?
Yup
But as most people keep one diary and have it set to auto-load, it's still part of the overall start time of the app.
What next?
At least the issue is now more clear. What are the next steps?
I
have been in contact with Jendrik not sure if yours is the email he forwarded to mme or not that claimed it took upwards of 15 minutes. As stated on download page it can take up to a minute. IMHO it is because of the handling of the Python files.
Probably mine
It's probably mine, since he said he hadn't heard it before. However, I spoke of upwards of 1,5 minutes not 15
(I checked).
If it has to do with the Python files, why does a regular install work within seconds? Plus, what did you think of the dairy load issue I mentioned above?
Journal Load
A regular install that's set to automatically load a journal takes just as long to open as I have confirmed with my local install. On my PC, both my standard, unmodified RedNotebook local install and RedNotebook Portable take a full 30 seconds to open. This on a Windows 7 x64 machine on a tricked out quad-core machine with 5GB of RAM both of them running from a 7200RPM hard drive (not a flash drive).
My appologies
I miss read the part of the 1.5 vs 15. As for loading and installing the none PA version you are aware that unless you changed the default config file before launching it even though installed to USB device it is NOT portable and wrote to the HD of the host computer?
That being said, read time on a HD is significantly faster than that of a USB stick.
So it may be faster when you installed it clear but I wonder what has been "left behind"?
Left behind
Yeah, ofcourse I took the consious decision to install the regular version to test and I know it might have left something.
For the rest (also as a comment to John's last post), I don't know what else to say really, my expertise doesn't go that far. All I've noticed with my rudimentory testing is in my posts above. I could do some more controlled testing if you give me the setup (like what to install, where, dairy location, etc.).
And don't worry, even if you guys don't figure the issue out, I'll still be using it anyways.