Version 1.2 Now Available

Submitted by drewmccormack on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 16:00.

Mental Case 1.2 was released today, and is available for download. It is a free upgrade for all license holders. Version 1.2 includes some of the most requested features from users.

Here is a list of new features and major bug fixes:

  • A whole new slideshow toolbar has been added (Thanks Wrinkly Pea for the beautiful design!). It allows you to perform limited changes to notes, such as resetting the lesson schedule, or moving them to the Trash.
  • Added ‘correction’ to slideshows. You can now indicate if you got a particular mental note ‘wrong’, and cause it to appear more often. In lesson slideshows, marking a note wrong causes its learning progress to remain unchanged. This will mean it will reappear in the next lesson slideshow. For non-lesson slideshows, a slide marked as wrong will be re-added to the end of the current slideshow.
  • Introduced automatic backing up of the Mental Case library. This can be configured via the preferences panel. Backups are made daily, when Mental Case is running. Mental Case will also move old backups to the Trash.
  • Updated quick entry panels. The image entry panel now has space for some text. A new ‘complete’ quick note provides a panel with prompt and content, including images and text.
  • The Mental Case window will now fade out during screenshots. To override this behavior, just hold down the shift key when starting the screenshot.
  • A text service has been added, which is available from the Services menu of any application. It turns any selected text into a mental note.
  • New preferences have been added for what should happen when notes and cases are deleted.
  • Added Notes > Find Notes menu item that causes the filter field in the main window to get focus.
  • Added a white border and drop shadow to images in slideshows.
  • Filtering of notes now ignores accents.
  • Fixed a small bug in CSV import, which could sometimes leave a comma at the end of the text content.
  • Slides in a lesson slideshow are now ordered according to the date they were added to the lesson.
  • Added a ‘Big Text’ slideshow theme, which is useful for exporting to an iPod or iPhone.
  • The ‘iCal’ theme now shows the correct date in the background.
  • Sample data has been updated to include a Getting Started case.