Free Upgrade in March for the Mac’s Most Powerful, Integrated Information Organizer
MACWORLD EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., January 10, 2006 – Circus Ponies Software, Inc. today announced that NoteBook 2.1 for Mac OS X version 10.4 “Tiger,” the next major version of its award-winning NoteBook outlining and organizing software, will ship in March 2006. NoteBook 2.1 adds several major new feature sets, including Action Item Syncing with iCal and Microsoft Entourage, new Cornell Note-Taking Pages, enhanced .Mac integration, direct FTP uploading, LinkBack support, enhanced PDF publishing, and Tiger Spotlight searching.
“We’re especially excited about what a seamless complement NoteBook has become to Tiger’s Spotlight technology,” said Elizabeth Statmore, Ph.D., vice president of marketing and sales at Circus Ponies. “NoteBook’s powerful outlining and organizing framework blends seamlessly with the rest of the Tiger desktop to give Mac users the perfect organizing tool. The combination of NoteBook and Spotlight keeps important things from falling through the cracks – for everyone from students to professionals. Customers send us e-mails every day to say how much they love both NoteBook and their Macs.”
“Mac developers have created a diverse range of exciting applications that take advantage of breakthrough Tiger features like Spotlight and the legendary ease of use of Mac OS X,” said Ron Okamoto, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. “Circus Ponies is an excellent example of a developer using Apple innovation to make life easier for Mac users.”
Action Item Syncing with iCal and Microsoft Entourage
The improved Action Item framework in NoteBook 2.1 lets users sync their NoteBook To-Do Items either with iCal or with Microsoft Entourage. The new sync mechanism is bidirectional, keeping your to-do lists in sync regardless of which app you change them in.
In addition, iCal users can specify whether they want NoteBook To-Do items to appear in iCal as time-specific appointments or as regular to-do items. Entourage users can sync NoteBook To-Do items as standard Entourage Tasks.
New Cornell Note-Taking Pages
NoteBook’s new Cornell Note-Taking Pages support the most widely-used system for taking lecture notes in North American education. With three distinct sections of the page for each step of the process - recording, reducing, and recapitulating information – NoteBook 2.1 makes it easy to synthesize notes into a personalized study guide – right in your own notebook. Information on the Cornell Note-Taking System is available here.
Enhanced One-Step Export to .Mac
NoteBook’s original One-Step Export to .Mac provided breakthrough integration with Apple’s .Mac service. NoteBook 2.1 offers even faster uploads of web-based Notebooks to a user’s .Mac account, allowing .Mac users to create sophisticated Notebook web sites with a single click.
Direct Upload of HTML Notebooks to FTP Servers
Due to popular demand by school districts and corporations, NoteBook 2.1 now makes it as easy to export and upload HTML Notebooks to your own FTP server as it is for .Mac users to put their Notebooks on their .Mac sites.
NoteBook 2.1’s new One-Step Publish to Your Own FTP Server integrates FTP upload capabilities into a One-Step HTML Export panel, making it easier than ever to create and publish rich Notebook web sites, including a Sidebar-style navigation menu. It also includes the ability to upload via SFTP (Secure FTP) for greater protection of your information. These and all other HTML Export settings are presented in a simple, easy-to-use interface.
LinkBack Data-Sharing
NoteBook 2.1 provides LinkBack client support, so that Notebooks can receive and hold editable LinkBack content from any LinkBack server application.
The LinkBack project is an open source framework that allows Mac programs to function cooperatively as a data-sharing community. LinkBack “server” apps can be used to create LinkBack “objects” that can live in LinkBack “client” documents while retaining their native format. Double-clicking a LinkBack object launches the parent application so an object can be updated or modified in place — without leaving its adopted home.
More information on LinkBack technology is available at the Link Project website and MacDevCenter.
PDF Kit Integration
NoteBook 2.1 embeds AppleÍs PDF Kit, letting NoteBook users publish their Notebooks to PDF with rich linking structure — including all Notebook internal links, URLs, mail and file links — intact.
The 2.1 release also includes performance improvements, a comprehensive online help system, along with various bug fixes and minor enhancements.
Pricing and Availability
NoteBook 2.1 will be available in March for $49.95. All current and new customers of NoteBook 2.0 will receive the new version free upon release through online upgrade and registration. Watch the automatic “Check for a new version” feature in the Help menu for details.
NoteBook is available at The Circus Ponies Online Store and at retail through The Apple Store(R) online, Apple’s retail stores, and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $49.95 (US).
Discounted educational pricing for qualified academic customers is available through Academic Superstore ( www.academicsuperstore.com ) and at the Circus Ponies Online Store (electronic download version only).
Family Pack pricing for three-user households is also available at The Circus Ponies Online Store for $99.95.
System Requirements
NoteBook 2.1 is designed to run on any Macintosh(R) computer running Mac OS X v10.3 Panther or later. 256MB of RAM (or more) are recommended.
About NoteBook
Circus Ponies NoteBook is the award-winning power outlining and organizing software for your ideas that lets Mac OS X users clip, organize, and share unstructured information from any source in any way they like. The program uses an easy-to-understand notebook interface to provide breakthrough media capture, multi-dimensional indexing, and inter-application clipping services. Circus Ponies NoteBook is being used and praised in the Education, SciTech, Legal, and Small Business markets worldwide.
About Circus Ponies
Circus Ponies Software was founded in 2003 by Jayson Adams and Elizabeth Statmore as an artisan software house to create best-of-breed apps that surprise and delight users with their beauty and usefulness. To that end, the company produces software exclusively for Mac OS X. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Circus Ponies, the Circus Ponies logo, NoteBook, and the NoteBook logos and icons are trademarks of Circus Ponies Software, Inc. Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Getting Things Done and GTD are trademarks of the David Allen Company. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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Press Contacts:
Elizabeth Statmore
Circus Ponies Software
press@circusponies.com
415.695.3100
