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02.02.2022
IK-Note is a simple app for managing and organising an unlimited number of text notes. It allows notes to be indexed by subject (or any other single criterion the user may wish) so that the entire notebook is displayed with an organisation tree - effectively a table of contents. This contents list may have as many levels as the user chooses to define.
Individual notes may be stored in various formats, depending of the intended use or content, and may include active fields, to which "on click" actions may be assigned, as described below. To simplify data retrieval, notes may be assigned user-defined attributes, which can be used as filters to restrict the contents list of only a part of the notebook. Additionally, the expected search functions for note title or contents are provided.
The notebook can be synchronised via dropbox between any number of devices using the same dropbox user account.
To enable the notebook to be used to safely store confidential information, access can be defined as PIN-protected. In this case a user-defined PIN must be entered when the app is started, and the database as stored in the file system and in the dropbox cloud is unreadable for third party software. The security system has been developed as a generally available feature for those KippsWare apps that may benefit from it, and is described in the Kippsware Common Functions manua!.
The app is available for desktop and laptop PCs running Mac OS X and Windows, and for Android devices. The variants are functionally identical. Notes can be easily synchronised between multiple installations owed by a single user.
The Android variant is available from Google Play. The desktop variants are available from the Kippsnet web site .
The current status is indicated here .
A restricted, licence-free version of the app is available for all platforms. This restricts the number of notes that can be stored to 50. To avoid this restriction, the software can be registered and licenced. Pricing and licensing policy is documented separately, see here .
The user can define a tree-structured table of contents - we expect this would be according to subject of notes, but any organisation criterion can be chosen. Each note is then assigned on creation to a particular element of the contents tree, and can be moved at any time to any other position. Selection of a particular node in the tree allows all the notes associated with that node and notes below it to be displayed.
This feature is optional: if a detailed organisation is not required, the organisation tree does not have to be created. In this case, the table of contents always displays the titles of all notes stored in the app.
The feature is described in detail in the user manual.
Notes can be entered and stored as simple or structured text, or as forms. Notes stored as simple text consist of a single text block which can be entered and later edited in a single text window. The text does not support any particular formatting features. Notes stored as structured text are entered and edited in blocks, where a single block may be defined as simple text, a specially formatted heading, or an active text field. Active text fields are formatted named fields which can respond to a click / tap with the execution of a function, e.g. open a web page or copy the content to the clipboard. This feature is specifically intended for storing login credentials for access to web sites, but doubtless has other uses as well.
In addition to standard, freely definable notes, forms can be defined. This feature is intended for storing information which always has the same format (for example login information for on-line shopping sites). The form is predefined and for a particular instance it is only necessary to fill up the defined fields of the form. Details of this feature are described in the user manual.