Circus Ponies Notebook 2.1 (Mac) From:PC , CSDC ,
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Electronics
Brand: PC
EAN: 0899076000089
Format: CD
Weight: 20 hundredths-pounds
Label: CSDC
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: CSDC
Model: CP006
Packaged Height: 140 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 760 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 20 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Platform: Mac OS X Intel
Platform: Mac OS X
Publisher: CSDC
Release Date: 2006-11-01
Studio: CSDC
Feature:
- Circus Ponies NoteBook is the revolutionary award-winning application that helps OS X users manage all those bits of information that lack a good home: web clippings, notes, even the e-mails, diagrams and spreadsheet files 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 highligh
Product Description:
Circus Ponies NoteBook is the revolutionary award-winning application that helps OS X users manage all those bits of information that lack a good home: web clippings notes even the e-mails diagrams and spreadsheet files 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 highlighting and keywords even voice recordings. Find anything instantly with NoteBook s patented indexing system. Then convert it all to PDF or to HTML and publish directly to your .Mac account or FTP server.System Requirements:NoteBook is a Universal application that requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher. Format: MAC 10.3.8 OR LATER Genre: PRODUCTIVITY UPC: 899076000089 Manufacturer No: CP006
Customer Reviews:
 Nice program. I personally have some difficulties getting used to it, 2008-07-31
The program seems very nice while I am playing with it just for the sake of playing with it. I have had a license for a couple of years by now, but I personally have not been able to incorporate Notebook into my workflow. I am a scientist and I therefore routinely collect tidbits of information when I am writing a research paper or a review. I almost always start by using Notebook but then quickly give up and end up making a simple list of things in a word processor program.
The manipulation of items still seems confusing to me personally. For example, for the life of me I fail to understand the difference between an Outlining page and a Writing page. Can one write but not outline or outline but not write??? It seems to me that whether to write or to outline should be a choice of the user while they are working, not when they are creating one type of page or another before they started to work. I can use the same piece of paper for writing or outlining any time, why should I have to make this choice in an electronic form beforehand?
Having Cells is a nice idea. On the other hand, if I have many cells on the same page, I fail to find a way to know how my notes would look when they are printed out on paper, since the concept of a Page in Notebook is different from a concept of a normal page: the Notebook Page can be indefinitely long and you have to go to Print Preview to see how it will look like. There is a Notebook Page and then there is a printout page: sorry, but the logic of such distinction goes right over my head. (I am not too old, barely over 30, by the way, such that I am still in principle capable of learning one or two new things.)
The Clipping service of Notebook really shines. This is the main feature of the program that brings me to keep trying it over and over again. There is probably no better software solution to sort pieces of information into different bins (clipping pages) by pasting information from the internet. I have used it to show off Mac OS to co-workers and they were very impressed by this feature of Notebook.
So here is my dilemma: because of Notebook's excellent Clipping Services, I simply can not bring myself to abandon this program for good. However, because the rest of its interface and notes structure seems to be counterintuitive to me, I can not bring myself to use it for my projects. It is almost too silly, but I keep going through the same trial-rejection cycle of Notebook for each of my new projects. I can only hope for one of two things, either me finally "getting" it and be able to use it fully at last, or that version 3.0 would be more intuitive to use. However, those who are smarter than me would certainly be able to greatly enjoy the program even in its current incarnation.
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