I have about 10 years of notes in basket and I would be in big trouble without it. The current Arch package of 1.8.1 is against KDE Platform Version 4.14.26 in KDE Frameworks 5.27.0, Qt 5.7.0 (built against 5.7.0).

  There are real problems with basket 1.81 in plasma. For starters, the following are broken or provide unexpected behavior:

 1) if you click and a new empty note is created, and you didn't mean to, it does not automatically get deleted when you click somewhere else. Stray empty notes were always auto-removed in the past. This can quickly lead to your baskets turning into a giant mess;

 2) 'Tags' shortcuts are duplicated and generate errors for duplicate keystrokes when you "Customize Tags" and then 'save'. It is like the list of shortcuts is duplicated in memory causing basket to think each shortcut for a tag is a duplicate. Quitting basket and restarting clears the duplicates from memory, but this means you have to shutdown/restart basket if you change 'any' tag setting;

 3) Changing a tag (like Title) does not update all Title tagged items in the list;

 4) Clicking in a note and applying a tag doesn't apply the formatting if the note already contained a tag. It is like the signals and slots get mixed up after the first time a tag is applied (something is also funny with the font-size combo-list, at times it will report available font sizes as 7 9 9 10 11, ... and you must manually enter 8 because it doesn't display in the list;

 5) Grouping is totally unpredictable. (probably in large part due to the problem in (1) above.) Any unintended click slightly above/below the current note baseline (when the Config > General > [ ] group note option is use) creates a mess quickly. Now there is simply a pixel or two difference between the note trying to group 'above' or group 'below' the current when clicking to the right side of the insertion line.

 6) Configure > General > System Tray Icon [ ] Show main window when mouse hovers over the system tray icon for 7 tenths -- no longer works at all. This is probably due to some change in the systray in plasma, but this was a brilliant time saving option that should be continued. (the balloon notices for Global shortcut actions no longer works as well)

  I'm sure these are fixable and baskets is well worth the effort. Let me know if I can provide an further information. I'm happy to do it.