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Circus Ponies Announces NoteBook 2.1 for Mac OS X
Free Upgrade in March for the Mac’s Most Powerful, Integrated Information Organizer

MACWORLD EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., January 10, 2006 – Circus Ponies Software, Inc. today announced that NoteBook 2.1 for Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger,” the next major version of its award-winning NoteBook outlining and organizing software, will ship in March 2006. NoteBook 2.1 adds several major new feature sets, including Action Item Syncing with iCal and Microsoft Entourage, new Cornell Note-Taking Pages, enhanced .Mac integration, direct FTP uploading, LinkBack support, enhanced .pdf publishing, and Tiger Spotlight searching.

"We're especially excited about what a seamless complement NoteBook has become to Tiger's Spotlight technology," said Elizabeth Statmore, Ph.D., vice president of marketing and sales at Circus Ponies. "NoteBook's powerful outlining and organizing framework blends seamlessly with the rest of the Tiger desktop to give Mac users the perfect organizing tool. The combination of NoteBook and Spotlight keeps important things from falling through the cracks — for everyone from students to professionals. Customers send us e-mails every day to say how much they love both NoteBook and their Macs."

"Mac developers have created a diverse range of exciting applications that take advantage of breakthrough Tiger features like Spotlight and the legendary ease of use of Mac OS X," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "Circus Ponies is an excellent example of a developer using Apple innovation to make life easier for Mac users."

Action Item Syncing with iCal and Microsoft Entourage
The improved Action Item framework in NoteBook 2.1 lets users sync their NoteBook To-Do Items either with iCal or with Microsoft Entourage. The new sync mechanism is bidirectional, keeping your to-do lists in sync regardless of which app you change them in.

In addition, iCal users can specify whether they want NoteBook To-Do items to appear in iCal as time-specific appointments or as regular to-do items. Entourage users can sync NoteBook To-Do items as standard Entourage Tasks.

New Cornell Note-Taking Pages
NoteBook’s new Cornell Note-Taking Pages support the most widely-used system for taking lecture notes in North American education. With three distinct sections of the page for each step of the process — recording, reducing, and recapitulating information — NoteBook 2.1 makes it easy to synthesize notes into a personalized study guide — right in your own notebook. Information on the Cornell Note-Taking System is available at:

http://www.clt.cornell.edu/campus/learn/LSC%20Resources/cornellsystem.pdf

Enhanced One-Step Export to .Mac
NoteBook's original One-Step Export to .Mac provided breakthrough integration with Apple's .Mac service. NoteBook 2.1 offers even faster uploads of web-based Notebooks to a user's .Mac account, allowing .Mac users to create sophisticated Notebook web sites with a single click.

Direct Upload of HTML Notebooks to FTP Servers
Due to popular demand by school districts and corporations, NoteBook 2.1 now makes it as easy to export and upload HTML Notebooks to your own FTP server as it is for .Mac users to put their Notebooks on their .Mac sites.

NoteBook 2.1's new One-Step Publish to Your Own FTP Server integrates FTP upload capabilities into a One-Step HTML Export panel, making it easier than ever to create and publish rich Notebook web sites, including a Sidebar-style navigation menu. It also includes the ability to upload via SFTP (Secure FTP) for greater protection of your information. These and all other HTML Export settings are presented in a simple, easy-to-use interface.

LinkBack Data-Sharing
NoteBook 2.1 provides LinkBack client support, so that Notebooks can receive and hold editable LinkBack content from any LinkBack server application.

The LinkBack project is an open source framework that allows Mac programs to function cooperatively as a data-sharing community. LinkBack “server” apps can be used to create LinkBack “objects” that can live in LinkBack “client” documents while retaining their native format. Double-clicking a LinkBack object launches the parent application so an object can be updated or modified in place -- without leaving its adopted home.

More information on LinkBack technology is available at:

http://www.linkbackproject.org
http://www.macdevcenter.com/lpt/a/5798

PDF Kit Integration
NoteBook 2.1 embeds Apple’s PDF Kit, letting NoteBook users publish their Notebooks to PDF with rich linking structure -- including all Notebook internal links, URLs, mail and file links -- intact.

The 2.1 release also includes performance improvements, a comprehensive online help system, along with various bug fixes and minor enhancements.

Pricing and Availability
NoteBook 2.1 will be available in March for $49.95. All current and new customers of NoteBook 2.0 will receive the new version free upon release through online upgrade and registration. Watch the automatic “Check for a new version” feature in the Help menu for details.

NoteBook is available at The Circus Ponies Online Store ( http://www.circusponies.com/store ) and at retail through The Apple Store(R) online ( http://www.apple.com ), Apple's retail stores, and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $49.95 (US).

Discounted educational pricing for qualified academic customers is available through Academic Superstore ( http://www.academicsuperstore.com ) and at the Circus Ponies Online Store (electronic download version only).

Family Pack pricing for three-user households is also available at The Circus Ponies Online Store for $99.95.

System Requirements
NoteBook 2.1 is designed to run on any Macintosh(R) computer running Mac OS X v10.3 Panther or later. 256MB of RAM (or more) are recommended.

About NoteBook
Circus Ponies NoteBook is the award-winning power outlining and organizing software for your ideas that lets Mac OS X users 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 breakthrough media capture, multi-dimensional indexing, and inter-application clipping services. Circus Ponies NoteBook is being used and praised in the Education, SciTech, Legal, and Small Business markets worldwide.

About Circus Ponies
Circus Ponies Software was founded in 2003 by Jayson Adams and Elizabeth Statmore as an artisan software house to create best-of-breed apps that surprise and delight users with their beauty and usefulness. To that end, the company produces software exclusively for Mac OS X. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Circus Ponies, the Circus Ponies logo, NoteBook, and the NoteBook logos and icons are trademarks of Circus Ponies Software, Inc. Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Getting Things Done and GTD are trademarks of the David Allen Company. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.


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Circus Ponies NoteBook User Testimonials
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NoteBook in IT

I use NoteBook for everything. I use it for private things. I use it for my projects. I use it for my studies. I use it for my research. I use to document experiments. I use it to share information. I use it as data repository. I use it as an HTML editor....

Prior to NoteBook I stored all my project files in a hierarchy of directories. Searching involved educated guesses and heavy use of “grep” and “co”. Now I store everything in NoteBook. This has two major advantages. Firstly, thanks to the search and indexing features of NoteBook I quickly find information. Secondly, I can easily backup single projects because everything is stored in NoteBook. No more broken links causing partial backups.

Markus Boeing
IT Consultant
Brest, Germany

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NoteBook in Education

Notebook is the app I use most often on my PowerBook. There isn't a more functional or elegant solution for keeping notes on the Mac. It's the app I turn to when I have an idea, a to-do, or a paper to write. If you use outlines, NoteBook is the way to go.

Ira Fuchs
VP for Research in IT, Andrew Mellon Foundation
Senior Technology Advisor to the President, Princeton University

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I use NoteBook primarily for teaching. Each course is a Notebook and contains lessons, quizzes, essay topics, syllabi, readings from the web, and websites students should navigate to. I also use it strategically to present information in class and help guide discussions.

In the near future, I will use NoteBook to develop two book proposals and rough drafts of the books. One book will be a textbook on cross-cultural human development. Each Page Divider will be a chapter and each page will be a section in the book. The book will contain a lot of graphics and many links to other websites. I want the textbook to tell a story and not just be a collection of sidebars and chart junk. I am hoping that NoteBook will help me develop a narrative (not an encyclopedia). I am toying with the idea of making this an Open Source textbook where other people can contribute to the project. This would not necessarily be a “wiki” project but it would be highly collaborative.

The second book project will be an ethnography (anthropological report) on my 10 years of fieldwork in the Caribbean. Similar structure as above but fewer graphics and links.

Eric Durbrow, Ph.D.
College Professor

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NoteBook has made my work much more transparent. I use it for surprisingly different tasks. On a daily basis, I update a Notebook to keep track of the versions, corrections and updates to the Clay Sanskrit Library volumes. I even drop entire PDFs of the volumes into the pages, adding yet another level of backup.

At first I had used NoteBook simply to drag images of manuscripts into the same document as the etexts and add all sorts of annotation and critical markup. The full Unicode support and the ability to export to OPML are very useful for me, since with a couple of AppleScripts this can be converted to the simple TeX markup I needed to typeset professional quality output.

http://www.circusponies.com/products/Somadeva/index.html

Now, I find I use it more and more to build Indexes, Bibliographies and Glossaries for the work I do — here the automatic indexing feature is unmatched.

I am currently compiling references for the third volume (forthcoming) of a dictionary of Hindu Tantric terminology, a project which I joined this summer. For this, NoteBook has proven itself invaluable; I can share my entries with my colleagues by posting an UTF-8 HTML file to my homepage.

Somadeva Vasudeva, DPhil (Oxon)
Clay Sanskrit Library
Oxford, England

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I'm one of only a couple of Mac-heads in my cohort, but while they have
all been struggling with OneNote or EndNote on the PC for their
research journals, I have just loved my NoteBook. I was showing a
friend the other day--I simply opened a new Notebook, typed a sentence
on a new page, and showed her all the ways it was instantly,
automagically indexed.

Brilliant!

I start my Thesis writing next month, so NoteBook is already my daily
companion.

Thanks for your great product and great service.

— Lisa Read

Masters Degree candidate in Distributed Learning
Royal Roads University (Canada)

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LEGAL

With NoteBook and a projector attached as an extended desktop through my 12" PowerBook, my whole trial can be available for display to the jury. This makes a much better impression than having counsel table covered with notebooks and paper. No fumbling through binders and exhibit folders. No trying to center documents on an Elmo. I can even show video deposition excerpts to the jury with just one click and a drag to the left. No more fumbling with the VCR.

I am so impressed with this program it alone seems to justify our firm's recent move to Macs. We've bought licenses for everyone to use and contribute to Notebooks stored on the server.

Kern Lewis
Founding Partner

Foreman, Lewis & Hutchison
Grapevine, Texas 76051

http://www.warriorsforjustice.com

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Inside and outside the courtroom, I use NoteBook to track my cases and projects, what I want to accomplish and what I've already done. NoteBook lets me organize cases by issues, by witness or document involved with them, or even by legal principle related to them. All my witness outlines have keys to appropriate exhibits and even jury instructions set up for a smooth trial presentation.

It is impossible to lose information in NoteBook and equally impossible to count the ways I can create hidden, unobtrusive structures that don't get in the way of my reading my notes.

This is a practice tool that I would not want to be without.

Stephen Chakwin
Trial Attorney
New York City

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BROADCASTING & ENTERTAINMENT

NoteBook is now open on my desktop all the time. It has become one of the indispensable tools in my everyday Mac use!


Shawn King
Host/Executive Producer, Your Mac Life

http://www.yourmaclife.com

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After being blown away by NoteBook at Macworld Expo last year, I bought five copies for friends because I knew that they would steal mine.

Thanks for making my life easier. I hope that you don't mind that I charged my friends double for the software.

Sinbad
Comedian
Los Angeles, CA

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A marvelous time-saver!

Steve O’Brien
Radio Personality
WCBS New York

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NoteBook in SciTech


“Scientific and technical managers use a broad array of data sources to keep their projects in order and NoteBook gives them a clean, intuitive means to do so,” said Patrick Hickey, Director of Computing Systems and Operations at Perlegen Sciences, a genetic research company in Mountain View, California. “NoteBook is the clear leader in terms of inter-application integration and ease of use.”

Patrick Hickey
Director of Computing Systems & Operations
Perlegen Sciences
Mountain View, CA


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NoteBook for Personal Productivity

I’ve been using NoteBook as a holding bin for research and thoughts related to a foundation client I’m pursuing. There’s a pretty decent amount of dump-and-stir at the earliest stages of a new business pursuit where hard research and “hey kids, let’s put on a show” concepting need to spend some time in proximity to each other in order to begin hatching some real plans. NoteBook captures all of that stuff in the form I found out. Clipping services and media frames let me drag and drop stuff from wherever I find it.

At home, I use it to keep track of a growing reading list and as a repository for Blog topics and starts that don’t warrant publishing.

Web Webster
Advertising & PR Account Executive
Nashville, TN


“I’d be lost without my NoteBook!" said Julia Ann Ellingson, a graphic designer in San Francisco. “In the past, I’ve had Post-it notes and stickies all over my desktop. NoteBook straightened out my barrage of thoughts into a couple of great Notebooks with everything indexed -- words, dates entered, URLs, stickers. It’s an anal-retentive person’s dream.”

Julia Ann Ellingson
Graphic Designer
Santa Cruz, CA

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GENEALOGY

I use my Genealogy Notebook to gather family history data, especially while traveling. My Notebook is divided into different Family sections and when I find an image or document -- or when someone e-mails me a photo I need, such as a cemetery photo --I clip it into the appropriate page of my Genealogy Notebook and add my own notation. I also track applications for genealogy groups I may want to join in a separate section. It's a great resource for all aspects of Family History.

Anne Costello
Diablo Valley MUG, Genealogy SIG member

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