diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 6cb340e..c5f9d7d 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ You normally will like to specify some "version record files"; see below.
 
 Version Record Files
 ====================
-Version record files record which version of the software you know or is available. They are simple key-value pairs of ``(name, version)`` seperated by ``:`` ::
+Version record files record which version of the software you know or is available. They are simple key-value pairs of ``(name, version)`` seperated by a space\ [#]_::
 
-  fcitx: 4.2.7
-  google-chrome: 27.0.1453.93-200836
-  vim: 7.3.1024
+  fcitx 4.2.7
+  google-chrome 27.0.1453.93-200836
+  vim 7.3.1024
 
 Say you've got a version record file called ``old_ver.txt`` which records all your watched software and their versions. To update it using ``nvchecker``::
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Compare the two files for updates (assuming they are sorted alphabetically; file
 
   comm -13 old_ver.txt new_ver.txt
   # or say that in English:
-  comm -13 old_ver.txt new_ver.txt | sed 's/:/ has updated to version/;s/$/./'
+  comm -13 old_ver.txt new_ver.txt | awk '{print $1 " has updated to version " $2 "."}'
   # show both old and new versions
   join old_ver.txt new_ver.txt | awk '$2 != $3'
 
@@ -137,4 +137,7 @@ TODO
 ====
 * Tool to replace the ``join`` command
 * Support GitHub tags
-* Remove troublesome colon from record files
+
+Footnotes
+=========
+.. [#] Note: with nvchecker <= 0.2, there are one more colon each line. You can use ``sed -i 's/://' FILES...`` to remove them.
diff --git a/nvchecker/__init__.py b/nvchecker/__init__.py
index b650ceb..cce384d 100644
--- a/nvchecker/__init__.py
+++ b/nvchecker/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '0.2'
+__version__ = '0.3'
diff --git a/nvchecker/main.py b/nvchecker/main.py
index 8bc2a0d..1a4f8ac 100755
--- a/nvchecker/main.py
+++ b/nvchecker/main.py
@@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ def print_version_update(name, version):
 
   oldver = g_oldver.get(name, None)
   if not oldver or parse_version(oldver) < parse_version(version):
-    logger.info('%s: updated version %s', name, version)
+    logger.info('%s updated version %s', name, version)
     _updated(name, version)
   else:
-    logger.info('%s: current version %s', name, version)
+    logger.info('%s current version %s', name, version)
   task_dec()
 
 def _updated(name, version):
diff --git a/nvchecker/util.py b/nvchecker/util.py
index d3303cd..5f3a84b 100644
--- a/nvchecker/util.py
+++ b/nvchecker/util.py
@@ -72,14 +72,14 @@ def read_verfile(file):
   v = {}
   with open(file) as f:
     for l in f:
-      name, ver = [x.strip() for x in l.split(':', 1)]
+      name, ver = l.rstrip().split(None, 1)
       v[name] = ver
   return v
 
 def write_verfile(file, versions):
   # sort using only alphanums, as done by the sort command, and needed by
   # comm command
-  data = ['%s: %s\n' % item
+  data = ['%s %s\n' % item
           for item in sorted(versions.items(), key=lambda i: (''.join(filter(str.isalnum, i[0])), i[1]))]
   safe_overwrite(file, data, method='writelines')