Clibu Version 2 was released yesterday and is a major new release which fully supports Smartphones, Tablets as well as Desktops with all capabilities available on all platforms.

Clibu V2 completes the first stage of an extensive update to turn Clibu into a Progressive Web Application or PWA. This enables it to adapt and respond to different devices and screen sizes providing an optimal user interface and user experience on all devices.

With Clibu all of you content is always up to date across all devices, gone are the days of manually synchronizing data. Clibu has true hierarchical tags, a full featured wysiwyg content editor, multiple knowledge bases, sharing and collaboration, web clipper, full text search and much more.

Future plans include full offline support, extending the on-premise version to provide Mac and Linux versions in addition to Windows, editor enhancements possibly with markdown support, more drag and drop capabilities, improved search, import/export etc.

If you've never tried Clibu or looked at an older version, please do try V2 and let us know your thoughts, so we can continue to improve it to meet your needs and wants.

See the Clibu V2 Pt1 Blog post. for more information and the Clibu website. https://blog.clibu.com/2017/12/05/clibu-version-2-easier-to-use-and-better-looking-with-smartphone-tablet-support-pt-1/ and https://clibu.com/

- Neville Franks, Clibu a better way to collect, use, manage and share information across all devices.

Nice looking website and informative as well, found the information I was looking for right there. Can install on my own server? Consider me even more interested, I'll test that once the self-hostable version becomes available.

One small remark, I am always left feeling slightly uncomfortable reading about the proverbial cup of coffee as a point of reference because the range can be huge and (according to some) applies equally to software costing 3 bucks a month or 150. This is not unreasonable given that some people buy expensive coffee daily but it no longer serves as the analogy of something easily affordable. Personally, I am totally fine to read that at some point in the future it will cost money (again, easily found on the website) but I'd be happier to read that the cost of a licence is still being determined.

But back to Clibu v2, which looks like it has matured nicely since v1.

Prion

Hi Prion,
Thanks for the positive feedback. Good to hear you like the improvements we've made with V2. I'm very biased, but do think it looks and feels a lot better than V1. And having it work across devices makes it so much more useful.

Re. the price of a cup of coffee - we are looking at coffee costing < $5 a cup. :-) We'll most likely have month by month and annual pricing, with the later being discounted.

I've done two new releases since yesterday to fix some issues, which you can read about here http://help.clibu.com/discussions/topics/3000167727

- Neville

Hi Neville

Does Clibu 2 now work with Firefox? In the 2 blog posts from January you mentioned problems with Firefox.

Thanks, Franz

all of you content is always up to date across all devices, gone are the days of manually synchronizing data.

The snarky codger in me would rephrase that as "back to 40 years ago when all terminals displayed a current view to a central mainframe", but that of course is not specific to Clibu :-)

I haven't entered much new info into Surfulater since the Firefox plugin stopped working, but I do have some 800 entries currently. Can Clibu import that old info in any way?

Hi Franz,
The Firefox issue I wrote about in our blog relates to the onerous hurdles Mozilla has in place in order to publish Browser Extensions to their Store. This only affects the Clibu Web Clipper Browser Extension, not Clibu itself.

Clibu V2 has been tested on Chrome, Firefox, MS Edge, Maxthon, iPad/iPhone both Safari and Chrome and Android Smartphone/Tablets with Chrome.

- Neville

gunars, I'm pretty sure that mainframe terminals weren't capable of the automagic content updating that Clibu does, but nice try. :-)

There is no export capability from Surfulater I'm afraid.

- Neville

Thanks for the info, Neville.

Franz, please do let me know if you have any issues with Firefox or issues in general.

Franz Grieser wrote:

Thanks for the info, Neville.

Color me baffled. I go to the Clibu website and everything looks nice and tidy -- and locked down securely with SSL protection. BUT, I sign-up and go to the myclibu.com site where my data is actually transferred, and I am warned by a plug-in I use that the site is not SSL protected. Huh? I just looked through all those https pages! I look up and see that the Clibu UI and user site is unprotected and the information is transmitted in **plain text**. There is simply no excuse to have SSL on all the marketing pages - yet, my private data I upload to MyClibu is in the clear. Wake-up! It's a Brave New World. There is really no excuse in today's environment for this kind of shoddy security practice. Sorry to be so blunt, but really?!?!?!

P.S.... I just found a question about this in the community forum on Clibu from five months ago. Neville Franks response was:
"we will definitely be changing Clibu to use https vs. http. Note that this only affects communication of certain data, which is only one part of the security and privacy picture."
Neville - Could you explain what you are trying to say? That it's only "certain data" affected? And what do you mean by this is "only one part of the security and privacy picture." (???) That's like saying we have good privacy and security practices in our house, but the lack of locks on the front door and the open windows is just "part of the security and privacy picture." I cannot think of one single thing that could be more important than securing not just the marketing website - but making sure the doors are locked on users private writings. I can't believe someone inquired about this on the user forum *five months ago* and it's STILL insecure. Just unbelievable.

@Donovan It is fair to say we haven't given't SSL support the priority some would like.

The good news is we have been working on this solidly since the Clibu V2 release and now have a test version working. If all goes as planned we will have the production version of Clibu switched over to HTTPS next week.

Enabling HTTPS on a Web site is quite straightforward. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for a complex Web application like Clibu, which is why this has taken longer.

- Neville

@Donovan / All

Clibu V2.00.06 has been released with full HTTPS/SSL support. Testing went well, enabling a slightly quicker release than planned.

Simply open myclibu.com as before. If there is any problem clear your Browser Cache and then do a Browser Refresh.

You can check the Security Certificate by clicking on your Browser Padlock etc. icon.

Thanks Neville, I will check it out. And Merry Christmas down under!

Thanks Alexander, and a merry xmas and prosperous 2018 to you up there. :-)

As always your feedback and suggestions are most welcome.

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:

Thanks Neville, I will check it out. And Merry Christmas down under!

I'm looking at Clibu again - it really looks great as a web clipper and notetaker. But I don't see any way to upload attachments or PDFs? Am I missing something or are attachments/PDFs not yet supported?

Hi Dan,
Glad you like the latest release of Clibu. We've just released V2.0.0 of the Clibu Web Clipper with full https/ssl support. Chrome should automatically update to the new release.

Attachments are definitely on the todo list.

dan7000 wrote:

I'm looking at Clibu again - it really looks great as a web clipper and
notetaker. But I don't see any way to upload attachments or PDFs? Am I
missing something or are attachments/PDFs not yet supported?