KillerNotes is a searchable, encrypted notepad built for techs who live in a dozen Notepad windows. Every note saves itself on every pause, note switch, and close, and full-text search finds any note as fast as you can type. Rich text with inline screenshots, real tables, a full color picker, adjustable font size, and color-coded tags. Optional whole-database SQLCipher AES-256 encryption. Share a note as a tear-off .knote (drag it into Teams or Outlook) or a whole database as .kndb. Opens and exports .txt, .md, .html, .rtf, and images, with a markdown/HTML preview. Single signed exe, portable or one-click install with /silent for RMM, no account, no cloud, no telemetry, GPLv3. Windows 10/11.
What's new in 1.6.0
1.6.0 makes saves, backups, updates and recordings safer, speeds up offline transcription, and adds Lock now, Quick note, folder import, search filters and backup checks. Fixed - Failed saves preserve unsaved edits for retry or text/RTF export, block actions that would discard them, and save note content, links, history and sketches together. - A failed password change keeps the original database and complete recovery copies, reports temporary copies it cannot remove, and can be retried right away. - Reordering or canceling a note drag no longer leaves an unencrypted copy of the note in the temp folder; files for drags out of the app are cleared on the next start. - Sketches and recordings stay editable and playable through saving, floating, printing, copying and pasting into any note or database, and when other images are added or removed. Restoring a version brings back the drawings and takes it was saved with, and recordings lost by earlier versions reappear at the end of their note. - Install, update and uninstall keep databases and other files inside the installation folder. Self-updates no longer run a script from the temp folder: administrator updates show KillerNotes in the approval prompt and verify the update in protected staging, a failed update keeps complete copies of the program and a recovery report, install handoffs wait for the previous app to exit, and silent installs and updates return retryable code 1618 while KillerNotes is running. - Backups: each notepad keeps its own last-backup time and retention, even when two share a name, ambiguous older backups are kept, and long database names work. Before, switching notepads made the other one look never backed up, so it backed up again at once. - Offline transcription is several times faster again: the speech engine update had shipped a baseline-only CPU build. The engine is no longer inside the app; it downloads with the first speech model, in the build for the processor (AVX2, AVX, SSE4.2 or baseline), checked against pinned hashes. Transcription starts correctly, keeps its settings, and opens models from folders with non-English names, and models downloaded by earlier versions are moved into one shared folder instead of downloaded again. - A failed export leaves the file already at that name untouched instead of a partial copy. HTML export and rich copy encode link addresses safely and keep only web and email links live; other links keep their text. …
