Circus Ponies Notebook V1.2 (Mac)

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Product Features

• Outliner, organizer, and free-form database program for OS X users
• Clip, organize, and share unstructured notes and ideas
• Easy-to-understand notebook interface
• Note-taking; annotation; clipping; searching; importing
• HTML publishing; publish to the Web in one step

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002IKIS4
• Item model number: CP0001
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 24, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,887 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Circus Ponies NoteBook is an award-winning outliner, organizer, and free-form database program that lets OS X users clip, organize, and share unstructured notes and ideas from any source or application in any way they like. The program uses an easy-to-understand notebook interface to provide MORE-style outlining, note-taking, annotation, direct media capture from digital cameras, powerful image handling, multi-dimensional indexing, and inter-application clipping services. Once you've created a Notebook, you can publish to the Web in one step--even publish in one step to Apple's .Mac service!

Note-taking and organizing
Organize your information using a familiar notebook interface, complete with pages and tabs. Arrange notes hierarchically in each page's outline, in ways that make sense to you. Collapse or expand hierarchies to hide or show detail.

Annotation
Annotate your notes with keywords, stickers, and highlighting. Add an action item checkbox, set a due date, or assign a priority.

Clipping
Copy text and other content directly into a Notebook without leaving the application you're working in. Pre-edit clippings before sending them on to your Notebooks.

Searching
View all of the words in your Notebook and where they appear. Or all of the keywords, stickers, highlighting, and other attributes--Index Pages make simple searching as easy as clicking. Use NoteBook's Super-Find panel to perform complex searches involving multiple words and attributes.

Importing
Transfer photos, images, film clips, and sound files directly into a Notebook from your digital camera, or scans from your scanner. Then use Media Frames to enhance your images with special borders, drop shadows, rotation, and scaling. You can even add in video clips or movies, complete with a standard playback control strip for convenient viewing or replay.

HTML publishing
Export your Notebooks to the Web to share with non-NoteBook users. Use the default export options, or customize the look and structure of the exported pages to fit your project.

...and much more!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful tool!, November 21, 2004

By	Stephen Chakwin (Norwalk, CT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Notebook (NB) is a powerful database disguised as an outline. Well, not really "an" outline, but a seemingly infinite series of intertwined outlines. You can use it on as simple a level as you wish - just treat it as if it were the spiral pad it pretends to be on the page (with very powerful lookup features) and you're already way ahead in the information storage and retrieval game.

If you want to get a little more complicated, start to think about the implications of an outline made of a contents page (which lets you move the headlines beneath it around as you wish) and divider pages (which are the headlines on the contents page) - each of which is an outline itself, with the headlines of the divider page outlines referring to regular pages within the section marked by that divider. And, oh yes, each of these pages is itself - you got it - an outline!

Now if this isn't enough of a knife drawer for slicing information, you have tabs - each divider page has one and you can add them to any other page, the tabs can be customized in size and color (yes, another outline). You can also "tag" your heads or subheads with graphics or one or more keywords and sort and retrieve by tags (think of a word that begins with "o"...) and you can use the indexing function to find words, or even highlighted words.

I don't think it's possible to have information in this application and not be able to retrieve it. Also, you can do all the normal outline things to rearrange it and work with it. I use it to handle my project list and sometimes to sort out and break down a project. It is a joy to use.

Don't be intimidated if this all sounds a little complex. Try it out and start on a simple level. Experiment. You will find all kinds of things you never thought you could do. If you want a more technical explanation, go to atpm.com , look for archives, then outliners and find Ted Goranson's comparison of this product with a competitor, NoteTaker. The CircusPonies web site, www.circusponies.com , is also worth visiting.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Using NoteBook daily for 3 months, December 15, 2004

By	C. Wendt (Madison, WI USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Finally I found a notebook program that does what I need, is well supported, and intelligently designed. My favorite feature is being able to drop whole files (or links to files, if I choose) into the notebook, and then be able to just click on them later for opening in the appropriate application. And for pdf or other image files, I can even preview them in a little frame while still in the notebook.

The way the information is stored (normally invisible to the user) seems to be very robust. Any file which is dropped into the notebook retains its original form as a file inside the notebook bundle (which is really a unix directory).

I now use the program for organizing all my notes at work (I'm a scientist) and at home. I have it open on my computer most of the time.

I completely disagree with the reviewer who couldn't figure out how to use the program, even though he was experienced with computers. For me it was easy, and recently when I needed help with something, I sent email to the support address and got very helpful advice within only a few hours.

I'm buying a copy for my dad now.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best on Any Platform, August 31, 2004

By	GREGORY Smith (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is one of the premier software packages on any platform. In fact, it's a great reason to buy a Mac! It makes it easy to collect, find, write, assemble, and even web publish. Great for a student!