This is not a criticism of the product - because I am not finding the app to be as user friendly as others appear to. So, while I am taking a serious look again at this product, I tried to get my teeth into the manual.

This is how the manual feels to me - “The bodhisattva bovine, heavy with fatigue from its jaw-grinding day of harvesting fresh shoots of redtop and horsetail, swinging its milk-laden udder to and fro with its languorous gait, gingerly stepped its way over the sun-baked and deeply-rutted dirt road on the quest to relieve its lactate burden in the secure confines of the farmer’s dairy barn.”
I'm sure that in the developer's mind he is sure he has said the, "The cow crossed the road." Pity he didn't.

I'm extremely pleased with this application. SuperNotecard is wonderful for organizing ideas, correlating concepts and presenting them in a visually appealing way. The fact that I can move around the cards, zooming down and back up again for different perspectives is wonderful. It's great to have different projects that I can browse, edit and easily tweak as I come up with new ideas.

I write in Scrivener every day and I'll never give it up. I love it dearly and yet I need a more robust index card system. SuperNotecard gives me a place to work on writing concepts *before* I get into the guts of writing. To me, SuperNotecard is the ultimate whiteboard where I can brainstorm, toss ideas up, see how the "look", see them in context to other ideas. A lovely idea.

The application as such is very nice, and one of the very few of this kind. But unfortunately it's very buggy: a pain to work with.

I have played with supernotecard, scrivener, onenote, mindmanager, freemind, .. many programmes to organise ideas for writing. I aggree that if you are on a Mac, scrivener is way the best. But, I have to use speech recognition and switched to Mac because vista on the PC is so terrible and is no backwardly compatible with National Institute of health and other university or scientific software. There is no way that the research teams that made the biophysical and imaging software are going to get togehter to apply for another 10 year research grant just to update the scienftic software because ms does not make compatible update. Unfortuantely the Apple has not really supported speech dictation recognition so us users have to use Dragon Naturally speaking. Dictate for mac, although it is based on the dragon engine does not allow for the learning of new words via correction and is a d*g; it think the company often upsets its clients. So back to PC XP. OK. But in this enviroment, Mindola's Supernotecard is very good indeed for writing, not yet scivener, and how I loved scrivener and its community: ...xxx but Voice - dictation - xxx Many of us finger dyslexics need to talk and apple has never seemed intested.
Also Supenotecard has something the is pure Gold. Especially, in these times when people are trying to survive microsofts attempt at self immolation via Vista and have to move accross operating systems. Supernotecard runs on Linux, windows and Mac AND if this were not totally suptendously useful and considerate of the poor schlemiel stuck between operating system. Mindola have done something that should get the software version of the Victoria Cross (do'nt know in Americans have the same award).....
The software can import and export OPML. If you have 2 neurons to rub together you will realise what this means for transferability and interoperability between software.
So: not as super cool as Scrivener, but able to cross Universes and live in the Multiverse.
RedGrass

Hi Everyone,

I would like to add a few comments to the reviews on this site. First, I noticed that most of them were written in 2005. But SuperNotecard has been upgraded to a spiffy 0-60 road machine that can take the curves now. So if you are just looking I would suggest that you take this app for a spin.

I get the impression from the many reviews I have read about SuperNotecard - SN - that some users misunderstand the purpose of SN. This is probably the best pack of 3X5 cards you will ever purchase. And that is what SN is all about: To capture ideas - inspirations - and the utterances of our world and be able to shuffle the data around until you, the interrogator, can decide on an outcome. It is like have the very best file clerk in your company working just for you.

SN is not a word processor, or a grammar checker, in fact, I turn off all the bells and whistles that the folks at Mindola Software provide so that I can get on with my snooping. Why would a researcher want to waste time checking spelling on the fly and looking up a synonym when they are mind deep in interrogation.

Bottom line: SN is filled with tools to help a writer or researcher organize their data - that's all folks! And for the price, I can't imagine a thinker without this little gem. Give SN another try!

Best regards,

John