Technical Specifications

Notebook Interface

Intuitive interface based on notebook metaphor
Plain, ruled, legal, graph, engineering, quadrille, ledger, and divider paper styles
Divider pages for creating unlimited sections and subsections
Customizable paper lines and background colors
User-settable page background image
Work with multiple pages from the same Notebook by placing them in their own window
Template pages for replicating custom page settings
Customizable line spacing
Spiral, perfect bound, 3-ring and pad binding
Customizable cover pages
Customizable toolbar
User-settable zoom levels

Note Taking

Place notes anywhere on a page
Full-featured outliner, with MORE-style power-outlining features
Folded editing
Per-outline-level font settings
Real-time voice annotation of your notes as you type
Legal, Harvard, and other built-in numbering styles; user-customizable
Cornell Note Taking pages implementing the Cornell Note Taking system

Sticky Notes and Flags

Add a quick note to any page using sticky notes and flags
Choose from Sticky Notes, Sticky Flags and Reminder Flags
Attach a Sticky or Reminder Flag to any outline cell on a page
Sticky notes and flags appear in the Text Multidex, under the words they contain

Text Editing

Full-featured text editor with support for multiple fonts, attachments and ruler settings
Full Unicode support
Built-in spell checker
Built-in word completion
Tables

Writing

"Writing" pages for entering notes and other text when an outline isn't necessary
Starting Point template for organizing book or novel writing
Starting Point template for writing a research paper

Clipping

Clip a selection to a Notebook without leaving the application you're in
A selection clipped to a Divider page is stored in its own new page
Clip from the Services menu, contextual menus, or NoteBook's Dock icon menu
Send the PDF version of any document to a clipping service, using the Print sheet's PDF -> Send PDF to NoteBook option
Assign keyboard shortcuts to Clipping menu items in the Services menu
Pre-edit a clipping before sending it to a Notebook
Clippings annotated with the name of the source app
Clippings from Apple Mail annotated with subject, sender, date, and a link to the sender's card in your Address Book
Clippings from Safari and other browsers annotated with the source URL
"Clipping" Notebook page pre-configured for clipping
Starting Point template for clipping and collecting information

Diagramming and Sketching

When words won't suffice, combine shapes and lines into diagrams on any Notebook page
Sketch using the mouse or tablet
With tablet sketches, NoteBook varies the line thinkness based on the stylus pressure
Convert handwritten notes to text (tablet-only)
"Focus on shapes" mode for working with just the objects in the shape layer

Annotation

Creation and last-changed dates
Mark cells or text with up to 6 highlighters with user-settable colors
Assign one or more Keyword to any cell
Assign one or more Sticker to any cell
Assign one or more Contact Sticker to link to an Address Book contact
Real-time voice annotation of your notes as you type

Media and Attachment Handling

Scaling, rotation and adornment of images
Direct manipulation of an attachment's rotation and scale settings
Attachment tool palette for quick access to attachment settings
Set a PDF attachment's currently-visible page
Movie files are scalable and include a control strip
Audio files include a control strip
Paste Clipboard image data as GIF, JPEG, PICT, PDF, PNG, or TIFF
Quick Look any attachment (Leopard only)
Import iSight camera snapshots (Leopard only)

Searching

Find panel
Patented Multidex™ for quickly locating information based on whatever you can remember about it
Super-find, for precise, attribute-based searching
Case-sensitive, wildcard and literal text searches within Super-find
Notebooks are searchable from Spotlight

Printing

Print the current page, a page range, or an entire Notebook
Numerous printing options, including page number format and omitting on-screen page backgrounds
HTML and intra-Notebook links preserved when "printing" to a PDF file

Importing

Drag-and-drop files and folders to add to a Notebook
Import TXT, RTF, OPML and Word(1) documents
Import images, movies and sound files directly from cameras

Exporting

Share pages with other NoteBook users via Page Bundles
Export TXT, RTF, OPML and Word(2) documents
Export to XML(2)
Export to PDF
Export pages to your iPod in the iPod's native browsing format(3)

Publish to the web

Generate a website from any Notebook, for access from local disk or web server
Notebook websites look and behave like the original, including outlines that continue to expand and collapse
Exported pages include their attachments
Viewable within legacy and modern browsers, on the Mac, Windows and LINUX platforms
Optionally export directly to your MobileMe account
Optionally export directly to your FTP or SFTP account
Sidebar-style export option for streamlined navigation

Navigation

Assign a tab to any page for quick navigation to that page
Contents Card for at-a-glance access to a Notebook's table of contents
Page-path navigation shows your current location with the Notebook
Super-Tab navigation

Sorting

Sort cells by date, text, action item status, Keyword, Sticker and/or highlighter
Built-in sorts such as "Alphabetize" and "Prioritize"
Auto-sorting resorts cells as you make changes
Save favorite sorts

Action Item Management

Assign an action item checkbox to any cell
Assign a priority level to any cell
Assign a due date to any cell
Manage a Notebook's action items using the To Do Multidex page
Built-in "Prioritize" sort for sorting action items by due date, priority and completion status
Publish action items to iCal or Entourage
"To Do" Notebook page pre-configured for managing action items
Starting Point template for managing your to dos

Security

Password-protection
Encryption of page data on disk
Set a Notebook to require its password to turn from the cover page
Set a Notebook to cover itself after some period of inactivity

Integration with Apple Applications

Download voice annotations to your iTunes music library
Publish action items to iCal
Assign iCal alarms to published action items
Add Contact Stickers, which link to contacts in your Address Book
View AIM status from within a Contact Sticker
Compose Apple Mail messages containing the current selection or a PDF of the current page

Other Features

Support for LinkBack data sharing
Inspector panel
Auto-save
Complete online help system

Footnotes
(1) Uses the OS X built-in Word document importer/exporter.
(2) XML export supported via NoteBook's NBML XML-based file format.
(3) Only for iPods supporting Apple's iPod notes standard.