Aquaminds NoteTaker 1.9
NoteTaker is powerful new OS X software for organizing your information lifestyle, your digital workstyle.
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Overview
NoteTaker's user interface metaphor uses a visually rich "spiral" notebook page with section tabs. You may simply have one tab and a long list of outlines or possibly you'll organize entire project and research journals with many sections and many pages within those tab sections. And it makes no difference how you decide to organize and use NoteTaker; it's flexible yet easy to understand--rather like having electronic paper on your OS X desktop.
In short, NoteTaker applications are unlimited. From managing the daily to-do list information to sharing a project team binder across the Internet, NoteTaker becomes the software of your everyday lifestyle. Use it to communicate ideas. Organize personal information. Keep a project journal. Think on paper. NoteTaker is software you'll want to use every single day.
Features
- Enhanced Voice Memos include automatic bidirectional linking between recorded audio and text entries, for quick review
- Spring-loaded tabs and drawer views for conveniently moving and dragging information to other pages
- Highlight & Summarize features for creating personal search and index reports (dynamic hyperlinks)
- Support for reorganizing by dragging multiple outline entries at the same level
- Preferences for setting behavior of Return key while in various editing modes
- multimedia AppleScript examples for using NoteTaker with iSight and iPod
- Built-in support for VoiceOver, the spoken interface for Mac OS X Universal Access
- Print and customize notebook covers
- Toolbar command button for adding a new page
- Mac OS X v10.3.9 or later
- Plug-in Component Architecture requires Panther and Java 1.4.2
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Most Useful Reviews
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Aquaminds NoteTaker 1.9
Great for outlining notes
Written by KM from Cambridge
Dec 12, 2006
I am a student at Harvard Law School and I have been using NoteTaker for a year and a half to take notes in all my classes. It has been a life saver.
These are a few of my favorite features:
1) The drag and drop format. Every line can automatically be dragged and dropped to anywhere else on the page, at any level of outline promotion/demotion. This makes it faster and easier to effectively outline ideas while simultaneously taking notes in class. I also love that you can divide everything up like a real notebook but better, with tabs, sections, and sub-sections.
2) Linking. This is key in law school. I realize that Word also has this feature, but I find it much easier to use in NoteTaker. I can make a short outline on the first page and link everything to its more detailed counterpart elsewhere in the notebook.
3) NoteTaker will automatically create an index for your notebook allowing you to find the location of every single word.
4) I also use NoteTaker for to-do lists, grocery lists, etc. NoteTaker's to-do list function allows you to create these lists which update every day as you add things and check them off, and you can see what you did on any particular day.
The reason I give it 4 out of 5 stars is that NoteTaker is remarkably bad at converting to Word files, so I effectively can't share my notes with anyone else. But for my purposes of taking personal notes, that doesn't make or break the program for me. …More310 of 387 people found this useful
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Aquaminds NoteTaker 1.9
Love it!
Written by AC from Cherry Hill
Feb 7, 2007
I'm a freshman at college and I love this program. I carry around my MacBook Pro everywhere and take notes for every single class using Aquaminds NoteTaker. It's really been incredibly useful.
I love how smart the program is, especially when you want to outline something. Microsoft Word will literally go beserk if you like doing outlines (I, II, II, IV) and sub-outlines (A, B, C, D, a, b, c, d). It will revert itself, put the indents and tabs anywhere but where you want them to go, and is a general nuisance. Aquaminds does not do any of this.
I also love how I can print my notes out and they are neat and incredibly easy to read.
Important!
Apple overcharges for this program. If you are a student, you can buy this program off the site for $40. Thirty dollar savings are something nobody wants to turn down. I would recommend using the free 30-day (I believe you get a month to test it) trial to see whether this program caters to your personal preferences. That way, when you spend money, you won't be kicking yourself afterwards. …More288 of 363 people found this useful
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Aquaminds NoteTaker 1.9
A+
Written by AV from Washington
Nov 2, 2007
I am a professor in the humanities at a major research university. I have used NoteTaker since the time when I was writing my doctoral dissertation and needed to organize huge amounts of information, insights, observations, notes etc. from which to build larger arguments. I am certain that my dissertation, and the book that came out of it, are hugely improved thanks to this software. I cannot recommend this product highly enough for its ease of use as well as considerable breadth of functionality, and feel enormous gratitude to the folks who designed it and continually improve it. I have continued to use it in all of my research projects large and small. …More
160 of 235 people found this useful
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Most Recent Reviews
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Aquaminds NoteTaker 1.9
Love it!
Written by JM from Bainbridge Island
Feb 17, 2009
Have used this for everything from coordinating and compiling client files to holding my recipes. This software looks simple but is very flexible and a joy to use. …More
6 of 7 people found this useful
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Aquaminds NoteTaker 1.9
Appellate Briefs with Notetaker
Written by CR from Hot Springs
Sep 23, 2008
In my specialized field of appellate law (SSD/SSI claims), I rely on Notetaker for 90% of my briefing needs. I have 8 notebooks arrayed in the dock. Half are full of medico-legal citations and quotes: "Procedure & Review," "Administrative Rulings," "Sequential Evaluation,"and "Med/Psych/Drugs." I use the "Find All" search, or tabs or Table of Contents to find legal authority quickly. I add constantly; these notebooks would bulge if they could. Another notebook, "Dailies," is a journal of activities, what came in, what went out, phone conversations (again, the search gets me the info I need for years aback). Another notebook is for bank numbers, credit card numbers, passwords and logins. Best tool ever! …More
22 of 23 people found this useful
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Aquaminds NoteTaker 1.9
Pretty good, but a real chore to use.
Written by RL from FRISCO
Aug 20, 2008
In trying to find the Mac equivalent for Microsoft OneNote, I bought Notetaker from Aquaminds. The current verison is actually 2.0. While useful, it is a burden to use. Nothing is intuitive, so I find myself struggling through menus and the manual to remind myself how to do simple things like create outlines or bulleted lists with indents. The enter key and other simple keys like shortcuts and tabs do not behave like you might expect them to. Printing is also a burden, as there are very few page setup options. I have been using this program for six months, and it's still a chore. Becuase it is not intuitive, you have to struggle all over again to figure out how you did something before, unless you use that feature all the time. IMHO, Microsoft OneNote is THE BEST notetaking software out there. Aquaminds should pattern their next version after that benchmark. …More
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Questions & Answers
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Is this similar to the the "Personal Brain" (thebrain.com) and can it integrate with iCal or is there something better for project management?
- Asked by EV from Allen Park
- Oct 11, 2009
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Is this similar to the the "Personal Brain" (thebrain.com) and can it integrate with iCal or is there something better for project management?
- Asked by EV from Allen Park
- Oct 11, 2009
