Installation and Removal
The NOTEFILE package is distributed as a 7-Zip compressed archive and
contains two folders. Use
7-Zip or
your system’s unzip tools
to uncompress the contents of the folder (windows64 or
linux64) that corresponds to your system into an empty folder
on your local computer.
Caution: While doing an upgrade by unzipping notefile.7z to a directory containing a previous version of NOTEFILE, take care not to overwrite the translit.txt, pscript.txt, and notefile.cmd files if you have already modified them.
If after following the steps below, you discover that your system cannot run the NOTEFILE executable, this may be because your operating system does not support 64-bit executables. In this case, you should contact me for a 32-bit version and extract its contents into the directory where you previously extracted the contents of the 64-bit version. Note that the *.txt files included in the packages are the same in all versions.
Windows Installation
Unzip the contents of the windows64 folder of the downloaded
notefile.7z file
into an empty directory, say C:\Notefile. Then create a shortcut
for notefile.exe as shown below:
| Name: | My Personal Notes File |
|---|---|
| Target: | C:\Notefile\notefile.exe C:\Notefile\mynotes.ntf |
| Start in: | C:\Notefile\ |
| Run: | Normal window |
Here mynotes.ntf is your data file. It must first
be created by opening NOTEFILE and using the
Save As... command from the File
menu. This allows opening both the program and
your data file in one step.
You can create another shortcut for the readme.txt file as
follows:
| Name: | Read Me |
|---|---|
| Target: | C:\Notefile\notefile.exe C:\Notefile\readme.txt |
| Start in: | C:\Notefile\ |
| Run: | Normal window |
If the directory or file name contains special characters or spaces, please enclose the file names in double quotes. For example:
| Target: | "C:\Program Files\Notefile\notefile.exe" "C:\John's Files\My Notes.ntf" |
|---|
If you want to associate the .ntf extension with the notefile.exe program, in other words, if you want to open an .ntf file by double-clicking on it, use the following method:
While in Windows Explorer find one of your data (.ntf) files, right-click on it, and select Open with..., Choose default program..., select Always use the selected program to open this kind of file and browse for the notefile.exe executable file, click OK twice.
On Windows 10 you will have to click on More apps ↓ and scroll down to Look for another app on this PC, before selecting the right application. Please do not forget to select Always use this app to open .ntf files.
Linux Installation
Unzip the contents of the linux64 folder of the downloaded
notefile.7z file
into an empty directory, say $HOME/Notefile. If you prefer command
line, open a terminal and use these commands as appropriate:
$ mkdir ~/Notefile $ cd ~/Notefile $ 7z e ~/Downloads/notefile.7z linux64
Check that the created executable file notefile has execute
bit set. Hint: Use the command ls -l notefile and if
necessary the command chmod +x notefile in current directory.
Important: Please always keep in mind that most Linux file systems are case-sensitive!
To create a shortcut for the notefile executable, create a
new file named $HOME/.local/share/applications/notefile.desktop
with the following contents:
[Desktop Entry] Version=1.1 Type=Application MimeType=application/x-notefile Name=Personal Notes File Comment=Help: https://notefile.kadifeli.com/ Icon=/home/your_user/Notefile/notefile-d48x48.png Exec=/home/your_user/Notefile/notefile %f Path=/home/your_user/Notefile Keywords=.NTF .CSV .CRD CardFile AddrFile NoteFile Actions=readme;pscript;translit;cmdfile; [Desktop Action readme] Name=Open readme.txt File Exec=/home/your_user/Notefile/notefile readme.txt [Desktop Action pscript] Name=Open pscript.txt File Exec=/home/your_user/Notefile/notefile pscript.txt [Desktop Action translit] Name=Open translit.txt File Exec=/home/your_user/Notefile/notefile translit.txt [Desktop Action cmdfile] Name=Open notefile.cmd File Exec=xdg-open notefile.cmd
To open your Notefile document
together with the NOTEFILE program,
you can create another .desktop file called, for example,
$HOME/.local/share/applications/notefile-mynotes.desktop
with the following contents:
[Desktop Entry] Version=1.1 Type=Application Name=My Personal Notes File Icon=/home/your_user/Notefile/notefile-d48x48.png Exec=/home/your_user/Notefile/notefile /home/your_user/Documents/mynotes.ntf Path=/home/your_user/Documents
Here mynotes.ntf is your data file stored in your
$HOME/Documents directory. It must first
be created by opening NOTEFILE and using the
Save As... command from the File
menu. Using this .desktop shortcut, you will be able
to open the program and your data file in one step.
Please note that Linux .desktop files do not support environment
variables or relative paths. So, you have to fully specify the locations
of the executable and the data files. In the examples above,
replace the strings /home/your_user/ with the
full path of your $HOME directory. Also, if any
parts of an executable path or data file name contain spaces
(strongly discouraged in Linux), you have to quote them in the
Exec= line. For example:
Exec="/home/your_user/Notefile Program/notefile" "/home/your_user/Documents/My Notes.ntf"
To associate the .ntf (and .crd) extension
with the notefile program, in other words, to open an .ntf
(or .crd) file by double-clicking on it, create a file called
$HOME/.local/share/mime/packages/application-x-notefile.xml
with the following contents:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">
<mime-type type="application/x-notefile">
<comment>Personal Notes File Document</comment>
<glob pattern="*.ntf" />
<glob pattern="*.crd" />
</mime-type>
</mime-info>
You may have to run mkdir -p $HOME/.local/share/mime/packages/
before creating the above file.
After that, run the following two commands:
$ update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime $ update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications
For more information, please refer to
Add a custom MIME type for individual users
.
Uninstalling NOTEFILE
To uninstall this program, delete the files mentioned under the
notefile.7z File Contents (in the
introductory topic)
from the directory you created during the installation phase described above
(e.g., the directory C:\Notefile\ or $HOME/Notefile)
and delete any created shortcuts, file associations, and
user configuration data. You may also wish to delete
or migrate any .ntf or .txt data files you created by using
this program.