About Circus Ponies

Circus Ponies Software was founded in 2003 to create best-of-breed applications that surprise and delight users with their beauty and usefulness. To that end, the company produces software exclusively for Mac OS X. Circus Ponies is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Circus Ponies, the Circus Ponies logo, NoteBook, and the NoteBook logos and icons are trademarks of Circus Ponies Software, Inc. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Jayson Adams is the chief architect, code poet, and vice president of technology for the company. Known throughout the Mac OS X and Java communities for his elegant architectures and implementations, he provides technical direction for all product development. Prior to Circus Ponies, Jayson co-founded a number of pioneering software companies including Millennium Software Labs, where he wrote the original NoteBook application for NeXTSTEP. At his next company, Netcode Corporation, he architected the Internet Foundation Classes which formed the basis of the industry-standard Java Foundation Classes that are used in almost every web site on the Internet today. Netcode and its technologies were acquired in 1996 by Netscape. A talented composer and musician in addition to his gifts as a software designer, Jayson earned his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Customer Testimonials

"I'm writing just to say that for some reason, whenever I open a Notebook or add a clip to one, it just makes me feel good. Can't say why, maybe a combination of attractiveness and functionality, but I love it. Thanks."
Ben Barlow
Rochester, NY
"I have just upgraded to v233. The ease of upgrading is astonishing! Well done!"
Colin Glanville
Barnawartha Victoria, Australia
"Notebook 2.0 was a real hit last night at our MUG meeting. Members were engrossed in the presentation as they learned about the numerous capabilities of the application; they asked lots of questions and had a great time telling what types of Notebooks they would be making soon."
Betty Larsen, Saginaw Mac User Group
Saginaw, MI
"Thank you for your kindness -- I did not expect that fulfilling my wish would be accompanied by so many troubles.
"Thus, I should say thank you to you for your persistence to do everything for your customers (even on Sunday)."
Igor Kramberger
University of Maribor, Slovenia
"Export to html is INSANE. Just awesome work. It completely eliminates the boundaries between platforms and the presence of the application."
– Mountain View, CA
"It did not take me but few minutes to realize how great this program is. I am using it heavily already. Thanks."
– Sarasota, FL
"Thank you very much for your support for us, non-English users."
– Tokyo, Japan