I just uploaded the latest version of WebnoteHappy Lite, version 1.0 beta 15. It’s only been 11 days since the last release, but I wanted to get some bug fixes out to everyone. Plus, that last beta release is expiring this Sunday the 11th.

Thanks to everyone who has sent in feedback, bug reports, and feature requests. It’s great to see that people are using WebnoteHappy Lite and liking it!

Here is what is new in this release:

1. Added a way to add a new webnote manually, called “New Webnote”. This replaces the toolbar button and menu item previously called “New Webnote from Safari”. Thanks to Arnaud for suggesting this. Hopefully this tides over the Firefox, Camino, and OmniWeb users until I get them better integration.

Note that if you enter an existing URL, the previous title will be filled in if you haven’t filled one in yet. Also the previous notes will be prepended to whatever you already have in the notes field.

If you can’t tell, I’m undecided whether to call that field the notes field or comments field.

2. Fixed a crashing bug encountered sometimes when setting global hotkey preferences. Thanks to Gunnar for reporting this.

3. Fixed a bug where rename wouldn’t start in certain circumstances. Thanks Slava!

3. Clicking on a column header to sort now doesn’t select all webnotes. Instead, it remembers your selection and keeps it in view after sorting. Thanks to Jeffrey S for telling me about this.

4. Improved Safari import.

The Safari Import was importing duplicate bookmarks. However, WebnoteHappy is intended to have webnotes that are unique by URL, so that you store all your notes about a URL in one place. So the new import does two things:

1. Combines duplicate webnotes into one by appending existing comments. So don’t be alarmed if you see fewer webnotes.

2. If any text is duplicate while combining, doesn’t append it. This helps with bookmarks that are in multiple folders that are the same. So you won’t have a note that looks like “Toolbar Favorites Toolbar Favorites” for any new imports.

This beta release will expire on December 21st. Download this latest release of WebnoteHappy Lite and tell me what you think.