Where’s the ‘Don’t Make My Brain Explode’ button?Īnd when you need to unearth a word, phrase, or photo from the depths of your notebook, the amazing Multidex can help. NoteBook’s usefulness can also be bewildering for novice users. My test notebook converted to a Web site in seconds, and included my audio notes as MP3 files.

Better yet, you can transform an entire notebook into a fully functional Web site. Want to share your novel, travel journal, or Biology 101 notes with others? NoteBook lets you export bundles of pages or entire notebooks for other NoteBook users, or convert them to text, RTF, Microsoft Word, PDF, and other formats. Need to keep your notebook’s content secret? You can encrypt and password-protect individual pages or entire notebooks. You can even use Mac OS X’s Ink handwriting recognition feature to turn your scrawls into text, though you’ll have to hunt around a bit to enable it, and the feature ultimately seems more nifty than practical. Support for drawing tablets, including pressure-sensitive line thicknesses, lets you add quick freehand sketches or doodles. You can easily export these voice notes to iTunes and your iPod.įor visual thinkers, NoteBook includes a basic drawing program, with resizable shapes and lines to create flow charts or diagrams.

NoteBook will automatically create a separate sound clip of what you were saying as you typed each item. Start recording, then speak as you type new bullet points into a Note page. I was particularly impressed with NoteBook’s voice annotations. Aside from the minor inconvenience of having to individually enable such clippings for each page of your notebook, it’s a clever and convenient feature. Once enabled, it’ll let you send whatever you’ve highlighted directly to a specific page in a given notebook-or even to a subsection within a page-via the Mac’s contextual menus. If you get tired of dragging and dropping or cutting and pasting, you can move text and photos from other applications into Notebook via its Clipping Service feature. For now, you can easily work around the problem by turning off that option in the Preferences menu. The developers say NoteBook has trouble handling videos when it’s treating them as independent objects, a bug they’re planning to fix in future versions. Sometimes I could drag videos directly to a page other times, I had to create a new bullet point, and then drop the video into its waiting text field. Dragging and dropping most items works well, but video clips can be tricky. NoteBook lets you pull in a wide range of files, including text files, PDFs, movies, Web clips, Address Book cards, and photos. For decisions monumental or mundane, Circus Ponies NoteBook offers a variety of tools to help you make up your mind.

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