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Photos, e-mails, graphics, documents. Who knows what you've got hidden away?
Circus Ponies NoteBook takes all those snippets and turns them into searchable catalogs of information. Find anything instantly. Publish to the web in one step.
NoteBook is a combination outliner and free-form idea organizer that lets you clip, organize, and share unstructured information from any source in any way they like. The program uses an easy-to-understand notebook interface to provide state-of-the-art media capture, multi-dimensional indexing, and inter-application clipping services. While you're busy taking notes and capturing your ideas, NoteBook indexes it all in the background -- it even remembers your stickers, keywords, and highlighting. Whatever you can remember, NoteBook can find.
Circus Ponies NoteBook -- powerful outlining and organizing for your ideas.
Circus Ponies NoteBook takes all those snippets and turns them into searchable catalogs of information. Find anything instantly. Publish to the web in one step.
NoteBook is a combination outliner and free-form idea organizer that lets you clip, organize, and share unstructured information from any source in any way they like. The program uses an easy-to-understand notebook interface to provide state-of-the-art media capture, multi-dimensional indexing, and inter-application clipping services. While you're busy taking notes and capturing your ideas, NoteBook indexes it all in the background -- it even remembers your stickers, keywords, and highlighting. Whatever you can remember, NoteBook can find.
Circus Ponies NoteBook -- powerful outlining and organizing for your ideas.
What's new in this version:
- Fixed a bug where if you assigned a due date to a page (via a Divider), the Notebook would no longer save.
- Fixed a bug where for some 1.2 Notebooks it wasn’t possible to use the Notebook Inspector to change the font across the entire Notebook.
- Fixed a rare crasher.
- Tweaked sorting to respect the original cell order. If you have three cells with the same priority and sort them, because of how the raw sorting routine works, the cells can wind up in a different order than they started, which is not what you expect. Now the cells remain in their initial order if they have no reason to move.
- Fixed a bug where commands in the View - Auto-sort menu were disabled when the current page had no cells (they are now enabled because they apply to the page when no cells are selected).
- When you’re turned to a Divider page and have pages selected, the Page - Delete command now deletes those selected pages. Previously it just deleted the current page, which was the Divider.
- Fixed an obscure bug that could cause a Notebook not to open.
- Fixed a bug where you couldn’t use the menus to complete a link to an Index page.
- When you drag a URL from Safari into a page, NoteBook now adds the URL Keyword to the cell that ends up holding the link.
- Fixed a problem where in some cases, after turning from the Cover page the Notebook would not cover itself if you set it to cover itself after some period of inactivity.
- Pressing Option-Return while editing a cell now ends editing and creates a new cell (sort of a temporary List mode).
- Fixed a bug where if you HTML-exported sidebar style and had cell controls hidden on the Contents page, the sidebar would also be missing its controls.
- Fixed a bug where if you added an Excel file to a Notebook, double-clicked it to open it, modified it, and then saved your changes, Excel would hang for 30 seconds. This problem was fixed for Excel files that already live in a Notebook but not for this case. It still exists for the case where you click in a cell and then drag the Excel file into the cell. If you open the Excel file now and edit it, Excel will hang when you save changes. The work around is to quit NoteBook and reopen the Notebook.
- Fixed a bug in the code that truncates cells to a single line.
- Fixed a bug where for HTML export of a Media Frame, NoteBook wasn’t truncating the Media Frame’s image filename enough (.Mac has a 31 character filename limit - the server won’t serve up files with filenames longer than this).
- For documents added to a Notebook and HTML-exported in v224 and after, NoteBook truncates less of their filenames.
- Fixed a window dragging problem that could allow you accidentally position a window offscreen.
- Fixed a bug where the keyboard equivalents for Edit - Link Text - To the Web and Edit - Link Text - Modify Link didn’t work when editing text in a cell.
- Fixed a bug where it wasn’t possible to publish action items from two different pages in a Notebook to iCal at the same time.
- Fixed a bug where the Inspector was often enabled even when the current Notebook was running a sheet.
- Fixed a bug where in HTML export, files in Media Frames that were set to show their file icons did not include the original file in the HTML export. This bug only affected files you added to Notebooks in 2.0 and the fix takes care of them as well as new files.
- Fixed File - Export to exclude Index pages (as it should have been doing but wasn’t).
- Added some safeguards against file links resolving to nothing during HTML export (i.e. the files are missing), which would cause HTML export to freeze.
- Fixed a bug where when File - Exporting a page with cell numbering, the page’s name and blank line beneath would be numbered in the export file.
- Fixed a bug where if you told NoteBook to File - Export pages 2 thru 5, say, it would actually only export 2 thru 4.
- NoteBook 2.0 no longer launches on Macs running OS X 10.2. 2.0 doesn’t support 10.2 but it would still let you launch it on 10.2 computers.
- Fixed a bug where it wasn’t possible to use the menu commands to complete a link to a writing page.
- Changed the license manager so that it is tolerant of leading and trailing spaces in the license key text field.
- Fixed a bug where incorrectly-configured favorite sorts could cause NoteBook to throw an exception when displaying the Sort Inspector and menus that depend on the favorite sorts list.
- When you choose Help - What’s New in NoteBook, this help document now opens in Help Viewer rather than in a browser window.
- Fixed a bug where if you set a cell’s due date or priority on the To Do Index page and then saved the Notebook, those changes would not actually get saved.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.3
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) or higher
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One of the All Time Best - Version: 3.0 (v366), 11/3/2009 05:24PM PST
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smithgregory1_dotmac
I have been using Notebook since 1.0. I have relied on it daily for organization, daily journals, and anything that I have needed to encrypt. In all this time it has never let me down. It's one of the very first apps I install on a Mac and one I could not do without.
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- Grape or raspberry Kool-Aid?
Maybe not back to square one, but maybe square four or five? 
- Version: 3.0 (v366), 11/3/2009 11:21AM PST
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jarlaxle.merc
I agree with much of what the previous post touched on, but we two little people are most certainly not the ambassadors for the masses, hence be sure to give Circus Ponies Notebook a try to see if it fits your own idiosyncratic workflow.
Circus Ponies Notebook looks great on paper, but in reality, many of the features that seem appealing are clumsily woven into an unnecessarily obtuse and complex usability nightmare. Again, Circus Ponies Notebook has many GREAT features and concepts that have the potential to be great were it not for the cumbersome implementation which provides an experience that feels like the results of an iterative process that insidiously went piecemeal somewhere along the line. IMHO there’s definitely no need for the application to retreat entirely to square one. Instead a reweaving of the impressive features and concepts into a tool that offers a more fluid experience might only require a theoretical step back to square four or five.
For lack of my ability to successfully articulate, Circus Ponies Notebook feels to me, akin to the idea of the unrealized assembly of a Porsche (or whatever sort of vehicle you personally deem as high end). Imagine a garage containing all the quality, required parts for building a Porsche. And then while assembling the Porche, something, somewhere along the line unknowingly went askew and the quality of the resultant car is less than the sum of it’s quality parts. In other words the assembling of the parts didn’t results in the Porsche but instead some kind of hampered transportation device. I’m sure my ramblings sound crude, but the fact is I really like the idea of this application and wish I was better at articulating that which I feel significantly undermines that which I perceive to be the goal of the tool.
Nevertheless, so long as gains are sufficiently balanced with investments I’d imagine that there won’t be any drastic revamping of Notebook in the foreseeable future. After all, I’m just one tiny speck on the left cheek of the immensely giant ass of the universe. Personally I think the application has the potential to be great! And would love to see an improved, optimized, and ultimately fluid Circus Ponies Notebook experience available one day!
Circus Ponies Notebook looks great on paper, but in reality, many of the features that seem appealing are clumsily woven into an unnecessarily obtuse and complex usability nightmare. Again, Circus Ponies Notebook has many GREAT features and concepts that have the potential to be great were it not for the cumbersome implementation which provides an experience that feels like the results of an iterative process that insidiously went piecemeal somewhere along the line. IMHO there’s definitely no need for the application to retreat entirely to square one. Instead a reweaving of the impressive features and concepts into a tool that offers a more fluid experience might only require a theoretical step back to square four or five.
For lack of my ability to successfully articulate, Circus Ponies Notebook feels to me, akin to the idea of the unrealized assembly of a Porsche (or whatever sort of vehicle you personally deem as high end). Imagine a garage containing all the quality, required parts for building a Porsche. And then while assembling the Porche, something, somewhere along the line unknowingly went askew and the quality of the resultant car is less than the sum of it’s quality parts. In other words the assembling of the parts didn’t results in the Porsche but instead some kind of hampered transportation device. I’m sure my ramblings sound crude, but the fact is I really like the idea of this application and wish I was better at articulating that which I feel significantly undermines that which I perceive to be the goal of the tool.
Nevertheless, so long as gains are sufficiently balanced with investments I’d imagine that there won’t be any drastic revamping of Notebook in the foreseeable future. After all, I’m just one tiny speck on the left cheek of the immensely giant ass of the universe. Personally I think the application has the potential to be great! And would love to see an improved, optimized, and ultimately fluid Circus Ponies Notebook experience available one day!
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The Kool-Aid has worn off unfortunately - Version: 3.0 (v363), 10/6/2009 11:25AM PST
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summerstormpictures
The inspired simplicity of CPN's design...looking like a simple notebook...belies an ironically confused and epically jumbled practical usability. This application really needs to be re-designed from the ground up.
I too was jacklighted by the "coolness" and good looks and "ponied" up my $50 bucks, and of all the software I've purchased in the last few years that I feel was money wasted, this is a close second to MobileMe.
I never thought I'd do this, but I have to recommend Microsoft Word's notebook feature. It just plain works and is intuitive while CPN is conversely complicated, confusing and non-intuitive.
Sorry folks, but I reached the end of the road.
I too was jacklighted by the "coolness" and good looks and "ponied" up my $50 bucks, and of all the software I've purchased in the last few years that I feel was money wasted, this is a close second to MobileMe.
I never thought I'd do this, but I have to recommend Microsoft Word's notebook feature. It just plain works and is intuitive while CPN is conversely complicated, confusing and non-intuitive.
Sorry folks, but I reached the end of the road.
