Introducing file changes

Ever since the first release of Nemo Documents we have tried to make file finding and file management easier. We have introduced various concepts such as putting files into a calendar view, adding tags and the ability to filter by file types. The time aspect has always been key, and that is why Nemo Documents looks like a calendar.

Like a file manager, until now we have only used the last modification time when showing files. But with the 1.1.0 version released today, we are finally able to show all the times a file has been modified. And the good thing about this, is that it is natural for a file to occur multiple times in a calendar view if it was changed several times.

This means that we are now able to much better keep our promise of: Whatever you remember about a file, you can input it into the system, and you will be able to find the file again. So if you changed a file last week, you can now find it again that way, even if you also changed it this week.

To make it easier to distinguish between the latest modification of a file and older changes, changes are slightly more gray.

Please note that Nemo Documents will only start recording file changes after 1.1.0 has been installed. And it will record and show at most one per time block. Meaning one per month in year view, on per day in month view etc.

File changes is a concept that is very natural to the way we built Nemo Documents, and is one of the more requested features we have. The feature request also show that people come up with all kinds of uses for Nemo Documents we had not envisioned. And that is something we are very excited about!

Happy holidays :-)

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Nemo Documents 1.0.2 released

New release with some minor tweaks and fixes. Hope you enjoy :)

  • Fix scroll in week, month and year view
  • When Nemo starts up, it defaults to current week instead of last active
  • Clicking the logo now opens the menu

  • Update Lithuanian translation
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1.0.1 released

We have just released a new version with two new translations: Greek and Italian thanks to Vassilis Oikonomou and Luca Sasdelli. Also font rendering has been tweaked a bit so that Nemo Documents now uses ClearType by default. If this causes any problems or you would rather have it the old way, then you can go to settings and advanced options to disable it. We did some tests on Windows XP and Windows 7 and found the result to look a bit nicer than without ClearType. The change was prompted by the discussion in the following thread.

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Nemo Documents first birthday

Today is exactly one year since we released the first version of Nemo Documents for Windows. It is also the day that we released 1.0 :-)

It has been a great first year. The product has matured a lot, many new features has been implemented and 12 translations added by the community.

We have had more than 30.000 downloads and many people use it now as an essential tool in their daily life, to keep track of documents and other digital files.

So what does the future fold? Hopefully more of the same, and a whole lot of new stuff. We are currently conducting a survey to help us understand how to make the product even better, so if you would like to help us out with this, please fill it out here.

Thanks to Jessica for the lovely picture.

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Nemo Documents questionnaire

We already get quite a lot of feedback on getsatisfaction and on this blog. But we want to become even better! If you would be so very kind as to fill out this questionnaire, we would be super grateful. Thanks in advance :-)

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Nemo Documents 0.99.6 released

A new version of Nemo Documents has quietly been rolling out today. This version is a culmination of things we wanted to get in before 1.0, together with a relatively large number of bug fixes. One of the most prominent new things in this release is that labels now have colors (and yes it is possible to change the color :) ). Secondly marked items now look a bit nicer, and we have made it even easier to label files by simply dragging them onto labels.

We have also had time to implement some of the most requested items from our feedback system, including the ability to show 7 days in a week instead of collapsing weekends as one day. This can be configured in Settings under the Advanced tab. Another change that made it in is copy as path. A feature introduced in Vista, is now available for all versions of Windows with Nemo Documents. The feature is among other things used to easily attach files to online email programs such as Gmail. You can still drag and drop files to Gmail to attach them, if you prefer that instead :-)

A full list of changes:

  • Add color to labels and the ability to define color
  • Implement drag and drop of files onto labels to add labels that way
  • Better indication of label when context menu is active
  • Add ability to define height of filetypes, folders and labels
  • Add 7 days a week option in Settings
  • Fix week links not working when changing months
  • Add copy as path (as found in Vista and Windows 7)
  • Make selected items look better
  • Fix day view for files with a very deep folder structure
  • Fix index not skipping excluded folders like the dropbox cache folder
  • On initial run index downloads and pictures folder also on Vista and Win7
  • Make views a bit faster
  • Fixes to the “show more items” in day view
  • Fix a bug related to Google where one would have double calendar events
  • Don’t allow file previews when models are active
  • Fix a bug in google where results would not be shown
  • Fix in day view changing labels would make view scroll to the top
  • Don’t try to get file icons for files that no longer exists
  • When folders or labels are restricted don’t show any results from Google
  • Fix selection of item related to go to month/year
  • Update several translations
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Nemo Documents 0.99.4 + 0.99.5 released

For the 1.0 release we have been keen on fixing as many bugs as possible. This lead to two releases in the last week, both with a number of individual fixes. Enjoy and if you find any bugs or annoyances please let us know, so that we can get them fixed :-)

Changelog for 0.99.4:

- Changing views now keeps folders expanded
- Fix several indexing related bugs
- Fix pressing enter to search would crash program

Changelog for 0.99.5:

- In settings: better check for filetype already exist
- Handle the way Google Chrome saves files
- Fix delete exclude dir not working with only 1 normal dir defined
- Fix when changing day the list would not start from the top again
- Sort the listview by name ascending instead descending
- By default sort by name in day/week/month/year views
- Fix clicking more items would make them shift around
- Update Lithuanian translation

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Nemo Documents 0.99.3 released

Less than two weeks since the last release we are add it again. This time a whole bunch of small fixes that should make the program a bit nicer to use. The complete list of changes are:

  • Fix several bugs related to indexing and changing filetypes
  • Fix ugly black border around items related to selection
  • Enter key now opens a document, so its easier to navigate using keyboard
  • Fix add label to multiple files in list view
  • Fix type icon not being updated when starring item
  • Fix problem where more (…) was not updated properly
  • Faster views with larger number of files (> 100)
  • Fix not being able to open a file with no default application associated with file type
  • Handle moving files from one folder to another properly
  • Don’t allow people to define the same file type twice

If you find any bugs in this version, be sure to report then in the Nemo Documents support center.

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Nemo Documents 0.99.2 released

I’m very happy to announce a new version of Nemo Documents. This version features a completely rewritten indexing part that is much faster. One of our testers reported that it now takes 30 seconds to index his collection of files rather than 3 ½ hours as before. We have also add support for drag & drop, so that files can be dragged from Nemo Documents to another program, it even works with Gmail. Finally we have made some nice usability improvements to make the program easier to use.

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Nemo Documents 0.99.1 released

Today we are pushing out a new update, the first towards a stable 1.0. A few days ago lifehacker had a great article about Nemo Documents which brought a lot of new users and with that, a lot of feedback :-) So we have been working more or less non-stop ever since trying to mold that feedback into a better version.

This release sees the addition of two new translations: Spanish and Catalan thanks to Francisco and Alfons. We spend quite some time tweaking the indexing performance so that it should now be both faster and lighter on the resources. We also managed to cram some other nice fixes into this release. Please give it a try and let us know what you think. Thanks :-)

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