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All Time:	(4.5)
Version 159:	(3.0)
Selected Version:	159
Release Date:	2005-04-27
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 159):	782
Downloads (all versions):	26,548
Price:	$27.95

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Product Description:

Hog Bay Notebook combines the best aspects of notebook and outliner applications into a single application optimized to capture your next important idea. Unlike comparable applications that specialize in styled text and multimedia content, Hog Bay Notebook strives for a simple, lightweight interface that is optimized to record your thoughts without distracting from your daily work.

Easy-to-use, clean, compact design
Instant, incremental search results
Fast and flexible outline view
Quick-access history navigation
Applescript Support

What's new in this version:

Minor update. Fixes bug when importing version 3.0 Notebooks. Adds tooltip to applescripts that are placed in the menu bar.

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 159:
Overall Rating:	(3.0)	Features:	(3.5)	Support:	(4.0)
Ease of Use:	(4.5)	Quality / Stability:	(3.0)	Price:	(2.5)

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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.