"mfreeman" wrote:In order to receive an Alert, do I have to have the application open, or will alerts appear regardless?
AllMyNotes must be running in the background. We've added special options that allow to hide AllMyNotes in system tray, and minimize it there once you press X button (which normally closes the app), so the app is not exiting completely, but you can reach it via system tray. Use Tools menu -> Options window -> Interface page -> Miscellaneous sub-page to configure these settings.
Also make sure that AllMyNotes starts automatically on Windows startup using Options window -> Tools page -> Start-up sub-page. This way you'll be able to make sure that you'll never miss important event.