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Version 1.32 now includes user-configurable keyboard shortcuts. You can configure shortcuts for switching to a certain tab, opening a certain window (File Manager, Bibliography Manager, etc.), creating records, and previewing the current record/file. If there is something else you want to be able to configure a shortcut for, please submit a feature request.

The Arguments tab has now been renamed the Arguments/Stances tab. You can now create a record of this type that represents a "stance", representing that an author has taken a position in a certain work without providing an argument. Just select Stance in the New Argument popup.

A new tutorial video demonstrating how to use Queries has been posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAl7AJorfVQ

The latest version, Version 1.30.3, was released on April. 4, 2025. The 1.30 minor update versions include a few fixes and improvements I made while making the tutorial video. See Release Notes for more info.

A list of releases and dates when they were released can be found here.

The latest version, Version 1.30, was released on Feb. 6, 2025. See Release Notes for more info.

A list of releases and dates when they were released can be found here.

Version 1.24 was released on May 19, 2022.

A list of releases and dates when they were released can be found here.

Also see the Release Notes.

A new video has been released demonstrating how to integrate Hypernomicon with Mendeley and Zotero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw8UylPXDYU The version shown in the video is 1.18.1, which was also released today.

Just released: version 1.18. Many changes have been made under the hood so that the folder structure is now customizable (in case you are unhappy with how Hypernomicon organizes folders by default). These under-the-hood changes have been planned for over a year, and I needed to get them done before a couple of major upcoming developments in the application: file search functionality in the File Manager window, and full-text indexing of work files. Also, I'm sorry for not doing any more videos until now; I have been focusing on doing many smaller improvements, bugfixes, UI refinements, and stability improvements to the application first.

Version 1.17 has now been released, and with it, importing PDF files has been vastly improved. The application now detects whether there is an existing work and/or bibliographic entry corresponding to the PDF file and assigns it by default. You also have the option to select an existing work and/or bibliographic entry a newly imported PDF file should be assigned to. This makes importing an existing collection of PDFs that is already being managed by a bibliography manager (like Zotero) much easier.

Version 1.15 has now been released, and it is now possible to integrate your Hypernomicon database with a Mendeley account. Zotero integration has also been improved. Videos that demonstrate Zotero and Mendeley integration will be available soon.

Version 1.14, and a new tutorial video on how Hypernomicon manages PDF files, other files, and folders, are now released! The new version adds more options to the file import window so that you can change the destination folder and change the default move/copy/neither option. I also fixed a couple of bugs I caught while making the tutorial video.

Version 1.13 has now been released. PDFs downloaded to the "Works not entered yet" folder are automatically imported, and PDFs can now be previewed while importing and merging.

Version 1.12 has now been released. The About window now tells you whether you are running the latest version, and some glitchy popup-window behavior in Linux has been fixed.

Version 1.11, as well as a new Introductory Tutorial video, have now been released!

The new version introduces a Welcome window, help menu options, and a couple of fixes. The tutorial video will be the first in a series; the first video builds a foundation of understanding for the application in general. Later videos will cover more specific topics in greater depth.

This is the first ever release of binary distributions of Hypernomicon to the public. The application has been under development since August 2012. At that time, I was 1 year into my philosophy PhD program at UCSD, and I felt that I needed some powerful tools to organize my notes, PDFs, and other files and information in order to get to the point of writing a dissertation, and no existing software could do what I needed. I then began designing Hypernomicon based on a much simpler application I created back in early 2005 called "Hyperglossary". A few months after development of Hypernomicon began, when the core functionality existed, I began using the application on a daily basis and building up my database. Before long, my philosophy work became much more productive, and as I continued to have ideas for functionality, I enhanced the application when I had spare time. After a couple of years of further development, I demonstrated the application to some people in my department and they expressed that many people could find this application very useful. I then began to think seriously about how to turn this into an open source, multi-platform project that would be useful to lots of people, and started porting the project to Java from C++ (originally it was a Windows-only application) and adding a lot more helpful features. Generally this was guided by my needs as I got further into my dissertation work and teaching. ... read more