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Hog Bay Notebook - 2.0

Compact notebook, notepad, organizer

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All Time:	(4.5)
Version 2.0:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	2.0
Release Date:	2003-07-29
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 2.0):	740
Downloads (all versions):	26,547
Price:	$19.95

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Product Description:

Hog Bay Notebook lets you record and organize your ideas in a convenient way. Bring order to your Mac with this simple and powerful tool.

Planning a trip? Starting a journal? Got ideas? Hog Bay Notebook provides the central location for all of your miscellaneous information. Don't leave this information scattered in disarray on your desktop. Instead, use Hog Bay Notebook and its powerful search to keep ideas and data well-organized and right at your fingertips.

Easy-to-use, clean, compact design
Instant, incremental search results
Drag and drop hierarchal organization
Quick-access history navigation
Safe, easily accessible text format

What's new in this version:

added wiki type hyper-link support
added ability to hide notes (but show folders) in outline view (from View menu)
displays line, word, character count for current selection in status bar
added paste and paste into items in doc menu
option-click on a note to open it in a new view
added ability to drag notes between different notebooks

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 2.0:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(4.3)	Support:	(4.7)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(4.3)

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The best note taking application I've tried - Version: 159, 5/9/2005 08:26AM PST

(10 of 10 users found this comment useful)

rtebiz

I have licenses for OmniOutliner Pro, Circus Ponies NoteBook, NoteTaker, DEVONthink PE, and Alepin. They all have appropriate uses. They all have strengths and weaknesses. Over the years I've used MORE, Inspiration, Acta, and others. I've tried just about everything that gets listed in VersionTracker. Out of these choices, Hog Bay Notebook is my favorite as a constant companion for jotting down and organizing thoughts and quick notes. In fact my preference for its basic design creates feature needs that are not presently implemented.

I have been using Hog Bay 3.5 since its early beta stages and have not had any data losses and very few crashes (less than 10).

The developer is very responsive

Crashes & misbehavior - Version: 159, 4/28/2005 05:22PM PST

(4 of 9 users found this comment useful)

brandst

It looked pretty slick, with its aliases and links, but within a few hours I found too many crashes happening and odd screen behavior (not stepping behind newer windows) and uncorrectable long lines in columns, so I went gladly back to OmniOutliner 3 Pro.

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Great software - Version: 3.5, 4/18/2005 02:06PM PST

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Lorister

If you have a lot of info to organize in a coherent fashion, this is a great tool. Love the searchability and the plain-text feel. I tried CircusPonies Notebook for a while, but it didn't preserve any formatting -- I can drop a poem into Hog Bay Notebook and it will preserve any tabs/spacing. The folder/file organization helps keep things in logical hierarchies, and I'm more comfortable with how it looks/feels just like a finder window than with graphical 'pages' in a virtual spiral notebook.