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DESCRIPTION
Circus Ponies NoteBook is the revolutionary award-winning application that helps Mac users manage all those bits of information that lack a good home: web clippings, notes, even the e-mails, diagrams and documents of a project. Create Notebooks, with sections and subsections, to hold it all. Add text, drag in files, "clip" web pages and other content. Annotate your information with diagrams and sketches, highlighting and keywords, even voice recordings. Find anything instantly with NoteBook's patented Multidex. Then convert it all to PDF, or publish directly to your MobileMe account or FTP server
WHAT'S NEW
3.0v355: includes French and German localizations, and automatically displays menus, alerts and other interface items in the user's preferred language.
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| Circus Ponies NoteBook User Reviews (65 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jun 9 2009 |
MAR6473 Again, got this app with the Promo. I had looked at it before but my trial ran out. I am amazed at everything this thing can do for the price. Seriously, the regular price is $50? This thing does loads great stuff. It really looks useful for people who really take serious notes and need to keep research organized. I love the PDF annotation feature. You can drop images into your outline or you can let them float freely anywhere on the page. It actually has really nice task management that you can sync to iCal calendar events so you can get it on an iPhone. My only complaint is that the tool bar is a little bit clunky looking. It just looks kind of weird. It works fine...it just looks kind of awkward and not nearly as clean as it should be for all the work that must have gone into this application. It has a bit of a learning curve but the documentation is great and it does sooooo much. Overall, I'm very happy with it.
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| Jun 7 2009 |
KENTR WOW! A real gem of the Mac Promo bundle. I didn't think I needed a program like this but it's been great to have a school like notebook again. I've been collecting thoughts and photos. It's been wonderful. The Multidex is awesome.
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 | Jun 6 2009 |
RALPHBLN Notebook has been updated since I bought the MU promo bundle last week (the MU link contained release 351, the current release number is 355), but Notebook's update utility said there was no newer version. I manually downloaded and installed the latest version from the Circus Ponies web site, and it works with the MU license key. The latest version fixes a couple of bugs and introduces German and French localisation: http://www.circusponies.com/store/index.php?main_page=recentchanges
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| Jun 5 2009 |
BS0D I'll give a 4/5 because it has lots of cool options. Practical to keep your ideas, files and stuff in order. But I have to say, I find it hard to master at first. It takes some gettin used to if you want to handle it correctly.
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 | Jun 1 2009 |
DR. GIRLFRIEND @RICHCASTILLO: It still runs even if you're not connected to a network. Tested today on Leopard with network turned off (however, the application did require a network connection to apply the serial number beforehand).
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| May 30 2009 |
ROBOTANK I just got this app with the MUPromo bundle, and my first impressions are very positive. However, I can't say I'm a fan of the way the app handles licenses. It requires you to have Bonjour enabled so that it call home and confirm that no other copies of the application are running _anywhere_ with the same serial number. I'm fine with initial online verification of a serial number, but this level of monitoring is excessive. Despite the app's quality, this monitoring scheme probably would have been enough to stop me from purchasing the app if it wasn't in the bundle. Software developers need to have a little faith in their users. Restrictive licensing schemes and Microsoft-style verification don't reduce piracy, they just alienate paying customers.
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| Jun 1 2009 |
RICHCASTILLO Does the application refuse to run if you are not connected to a network?
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| Jun 1 2009 |
BLLOYD It is not calling home. The calls are on the local network, to ensure if you paid for one version, you're using one copy on the network at a time. If you are not connected to the network, it runs just fine.
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| Jun 1 2009 |
RICHCASTILLO I am also not a fan of extraordinary license protection schemes. However, in fairness to the developer, the local network check is pretty routine. Quark has been doing it since the big bang. With Quark, you didn't even have to be logged on to the local net. As long as you had a physical connection, they would find themselves. 'Course, those guys always were a little over the top. I have not been enticed to purchase this promo as I already have licensed Parallels, Drive Genius and Notetaker, which I think are better than the offered apps. BTW: If anyone is interested in Notebook, it is worth a look at Notetaker. These two apps seem to have had a common origin. However, I think Notetaker has some advantages like an inexpensive network server.
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| Jun 4 2009 |
ROBOTANK I guess I was mistaken. I didn't realize that it was only a local network check. I thought that it was verifying the serial with the developer's server every time I launched it. I suppose that a local network check is reasonable to prevent people from using one licence on multiple machines simultaneously. In any case, thanks to everyone who corrected my mistake. I think it's only fair to mention, since I made an undeserved negative comment about the app, that I think Notebook is a great program. I've also been in touch with Circus Ponies support, and they were very prompt and helpful in replying to my question.
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| May 8 2009 |
ASIAN This application is nice but dead. More than one year ago CirnusPonies told us about a new type of table. In the release 3.0 (by september) it was missing, but also today , 8 month later. Have to wait for another year ? .
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| May 8 2009 |
MISHA How is an app that is being constantly developed and updated 'dead'?
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| May 29 2009 |
PAOLO TRAMANNONI Version 3 introduced some tons of new features, minus the single one you are looking for. Maybe you should buy a dictionary and carefully revise your concept of 'dead'.
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| Apr 24 2009 |
MYSTERY TRAMP I'm not going to give this a rating because I just don't "get" Notebook. I don't like the notebook metaphor and I don't like that I MUST have either a spiral binding or a three-ring binder. No option for us trolls who just want a blank window. I don't like how it's decided there are fourteen things I can do with the software. I don't like how the To-Do list is pre-divided among five tasks it thinks I should be doing. I don't like how it can drag-n-drop virtually any file but it only "imports" one or two file types. I don't like how the sticky notes and sticky flags are cocked at an angle. And if I come across like a grouch, totally lacking whimsy, tell me when the last time you saw Macintosh software that needed an eight page installation guide? Now THAT is for the birds. | |
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| May 8 2009 |
MACSOLU You seem very grouchy. Lighten up.
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| Mar 23 2009 |
DENNY CRANE NoteBook 3 is a class act. This definitely wins the BEST-OF in it's category!!! The Multidex is completely amazing for finding all of the many items you have easily and safely logged into NoteBook 3. The ability to record and store voice snippets is very convenient for fast unhindered note-taking. The familiar look and feel of real life notepads and graphing paper, sticky notes, sticky flags, and reminder flags creates a very fine electronic version of the real world. The PDF manual is chock full of easy-to-follow screen shots, which helps greatly in learning the various powerful functions of NoteBook 3. And finally, the online video tutorials goes a long way in teaching those that need to be shown how things work.
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| Nov 27 2008 |
RAMPANCY The stickies feature is horribly broken in Notebook 3 - you can't edit stickies once you've set them, and the toolbar item for summoning stickies doesn't even work! You also can't easily delete stickies with a key combo - you have to drag them off your notebook like a dock item, and even that doesn't work half the time. This makes this touted feature in v3 useless to me. Oh yes. I also can't right-click on the toolbar to edit it. IMHO, people still on v2 should hold off upgrading until this very broken feature is fixed.
(Version 3.0v340) | |
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| Mar 17 2009 |
JOANNE SANMATEO Yeah, I kind of found the app not very responsive as I work in it. Sometimes things don't work and sometimes it's just heavily delayed in response.
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| Apr 4 2009 |
RT IDEAS The sticky notes worked fine for me in version 3 of the lastest build. You have to click something to select it to deleted it, why not click and drag in one move to delete it anyway?! IMO it seems like a bit of sour grapes to rate it one star for something trivial. You have to click an empty gray area to change the toolbar. If you have the ruler shown, you can click the empty area under the tab stops selector or drag the notebook wider.
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