RightNote: Editor types available for plain note, RichEdit note, RichView note, syntax highlighter note and spreadsheet note

Editor Types

RightNote includes 5 different note types. So when and why would you want to use a particular note? This topic briefly describes the main advantages of each different note type:

Plain Note

• best used for plain text notes, where no formatting is required or desired.
• note data contains no extra formatting information so uses up least amount of disk space
  

RichEdit Note

• based on windows RichEdit control (as found in WordPad)
• provides text formatting, ability to insert OLE objects and images (no support for tables)
• provides better handling of OLE objects compared to RichView note (can resize the ole object)
• provides zoom facility (you can enlarge zoom factor of editor with mouse left click and wheel scroll)

RichView Note

• provides best word processing capabilities, including support for tables, images, OLE object, hypertext links
• exports natively to .rvf file type (i.e all data will be preserved if you export to this format. If you export to other formats some formatting may be lost)
• Default note type (this can be changed in Options -> Note settings)
  

Syntax highlighter Note

• most suited for source code snippets
• supports most common programming languages such as c++, c#, pascal, java, visual basic, as well as xml, html, css.
• all lexers can be customised via Tools -> Highlighter settings
  

Spreadsheet note

• best suited for tabular data
• supports large percent of microsoft excel functions (see next topic for details)
• can import from and export to excel file format (.xls)
• supports sort function to sort data