This is a preview of what's to come. These changes have not yet been fully tested and no guarantee is provided. Be cautious using this build against your production notebooks. But if you're curious and willing to give it a try, please send feedback by opening a ticket. Thanks!
This release is a major update, with breaking changes (improvements) in the way OneMore Searches across your notebooks and how it tracks Hashtags, Favorites, Layouts, and pages pinned to My Reading List.
⚠️ BREAKING CHANGE IN OneMore 8.0.0-beta: READ BEFORE INSTALLING ⚠️
On first launch, this beta rebuilds the hashtag catalog, builds a full text index of selected notebooks, and upgrades the data models for favorites, window layouts, and My Reading List. Your existing OneMore.db will be modified automatically. Back it up first.
BACK UP YOUR DATABASE (OneMore.db) BEFORE INSTALLING. NO EXCEPTIONS.
- 8.0.0-beta will NOT work with your 7.5.0 data. It immediately upgrades your data with this beta.
- 7.5.0 will NOT work correctly with data from 8.0.0-beta. After upgrading, rolling back to 7.5.0 will leave hashtags out of sync. Edited pages can get duplicate hashtag entries, and some writes may fail.
- To roll back safely, restore OneMore.db by overwriting it with your backup copy before launching 7.5.0.
Exported favorites and window layouts are compatible between 7.5.0 and 8.0.0-beta. Export them from 7.5.0 before upgrading as a fallback. If you skip the backup, you risk permanent data loss of favorites and layouts.
Do not install this beta on a production system or anywhere your OneMore data matters. Test only with a copy of your OneMore.db or on a fresh installation.
To back up: Close OneNote completely, then copy C:\users\<user>\AppData\Local\OneMore\OneMore.db to a safe location.
By installing this beta, you acknowledge that you have read this warning and have backed up OneMore.db.
Full Text Search Indexing, Hashtags, Favorites, Layouts, My Reading List
Upgrading: Expect a one-time background rebuild of your hashtag catalog, so tags may be missing from search until it finishes (longer for large collections). Your notebook choices are kept, and favorites and layouts upgrade in place and repair themselves within a few minutes.
References that last: Favorites, saved layouts and hashtag search now survive OneNote closing and reopening notebooks, and pages being moved, renamed or re-dated. OneMore finds pages by title, date, location and OneNote's persistent page link, and no longer writes hidden markers into your pages. Restoring a layout tells you which windows it couldn't restore, and why.
Grace period: If a page can't be found because its notebook is closed, still loading, or the page was deleted, OneMore remembers it for six hours. A favorite says its notebook isn't available and works again when the page returns. After that it says the page no longer exists. Favorites are never deleted for you.
New: full text search indexing (optional, off by default): OneMore can keep a search index of your notebooks on your computer so Search finds text almost instantly, even across all notebooks. Turn it on in the installer or in Settings > Search Index. The index builds gradually in the background; to build it right away, click Build the index now in Settings > Search Index, which typically takes just a few minutes.
Limits: Pages in locked sections are skipped, identical copies of a page in a section can't always be told apart, and you shouldn't switch back to an older version afterwards without first restoring your old database.
See the OneMore user guide at onemoreaddin.com and a list of recently updated pages on the About page.
Changelog
- Added full text searching for immediate search results and finer querying, #2736
- Added Adjust Blank Lines command (previously Remove Empty Lines) to update lines between paragraphs, #2732
- Added Repair URLs command (previously Check URLs) to repair broken links with scope and options, #2724
- Added page identity tracking so favorites, layouts, and hashtags survive notebooks reopened or pages moved, #2709
- Updated Hashtag scheduler to store its marker in the database to keep it in sync with the catalog state, #2711
- Fixed an issue where the Chinese translations in the Search dialog were incorrect, #2720
- Fixed an issue where the Calendar scroll, Create, and Copy buttons had the wrong background color, #2718
- Fixed an issue where Convert Markdown on Enter would break when native OneNote dialogs had focus, #2707
- Fixed an issue where a message box might show a scrollbar when not needed, #2728