As you might imagine from its name, NoteBook is great for taking notes . If you’re in a meeting or lecture, NoteBook’s voice annotation feature guarantees you’ll never miss a detail. Click the speaker icon next to any note to start playback from the point in the recording you began taking that note. Or send your voice annotations to your iTunes music library and from there to your iPod or iPhone, to review the recording while in the car, jogging, wherever is convenient.
Words aren’t always enough to capture an idea, so NoteBook lets you add diagrams, flow charts and sketches to any page. Build your diagrams using NoteBook’s pre-built collection of shapes and line styles, or use your mouse or tablet stylus to sketch. If you’re using a tablet, NoteBook varies the line thickness based on the pressure you apply to the stylus. It can even convert your tablet writing to text, using OS X’s InkWell technology.
You can even take notes right on top of your PDF class notes or lecture slides. When you drop the PDF on your Notebook and choose the annotate option, NoteBook adds each PDF page as a separate page in the Notebook. From there you can add text notes, create diagrams, circle important points, and generate a new PDF that includes all of your mark-up. Your PDF and mark-up stay organized within your school notebook.
If part of your note-taking involves research, with NoteBook you can easily “clip” selections from web pages and other apps straight into your Notebooks, without leaving the app you’re working in.
Just configure one or more pages for clipping, and then start researching, reading your mail, or whatever. When you see something related to your research, select it and clip it to store it in that page. If you clip from a web page, NoteBook saves the URL with the clipping, so that you can easily return to that page at any time. Then review, edit and annotate your clippings when you’re ready to work with your research.
But with all that information, how do you find a particular note when you’re not sure where it is? The answer is the Multidex™ — read more….
“NoteBook is a must-have if you’re using your computer as a true digital hub.”Tera Patricks, Mac360.com
“Without this software, the project would not have been feasible.”Po Bronson, NYT bestselling author
“I am currently compiling references for the third volume (forthcoming) of a dictionary of Hindu Tantric terminology, a project which I joined this summer. For this, NoteBook has proven itself invaluable; I can share my entries with my colleagues by posting an UTF-8 HTML file to my homepage.”Somadeva Vasudeva, DPhil (Oxon)
“With NoteBook and a projector attached to my 12″ PowerBook as an extended desktop, my whole trial can be available for display to the jury. This makes a much better impression than having the counsel table covered with papers. I can show video deposition excerpts to the jury with just one click and drag.
NoteBook alone justified our firm’s move to Macs. We bought licenses for everyone.”Kern Lewis
“Export to html is INSANE. Just awesome work. It completely eliminates the boundaries between platforms and the presence of the application.”Mountain View, CA
“NoteBook is the perfect application for organizing clips, research, and other important information needed for filmmaking. I can attach humongous video files and images of locations, casting sessions, and all my research into one Notebook. And with the export to web feature I can share it all with anyone. I absolutely love it!!!”Rick McCallum
“There isn’t a more functional or elegant solution for keeping notes on the Mac. NoteBook is what I turn to when I have an idea, a to-do, or a paper to write. If you use outlines, NoteBook is the way to go.”Ira Fuchs
“After being blown away by NoteBook at Macworld Expo last year, I bought five copies for friends because I knew that they would steal mine.”Sinbad
“NoteBook is now open on my desktop all the time.”Shawn King
“A marvelous time-saver!”Steve O’Brien