If you use NoteBook, this may prove to be the best tip you’ve ever heard–I know it was for me!ĭownload a demo of Circus Ponies’ NoteBook today. Notebooks were designed this way for robustness – a problem in one of the files would not corrupt the entire Notebook, for example.” Another is called attachments and holds all of the attachments in your Notebook. One folder is called pages and holds a plist file for each page in your Notebook. Within that folder is a ist file that describes the contents of the Notebook (page order, etc.), and several folders. He offers further explanation of the way NoteBook structures files: “A NoteBook document is actually a folder that looks like a document in the Finder. It won’t restore the page order or other Notebook-wide settings, but you should have back all of your data. NoteBook will then create a new Notebook that contains everything it could recover from the attachments and pages folder of the damaged Notebook. Open the Notebook – when you do, NoteBook should tell you that the document is damaged and it will ask if you would like it to rebuild it. If there’s a file, also drag it out of the windowĥ. In the window that appears, locate the ist file and drag it out of the window (actually, please send it to me).Ĥ. Control-click the copy in the Finder and choose Show Package Contents from the menu that appears.ģ. To rebuild a Notebook that appears to be corrupted, follow these steps:Ģ. I contacted Circus Ponies about what I should do, since I could not locate a recent backup, and the tech support was amazing. Typical digital recorders allow the user to record audio and sync it to a computer where it can be. an iPhone app and (b) is sufficiently cross-platform (importing/exporting. New applications for collecting audio data are readily available for the iPhone/ iPad and Android-based devices. Im trying to finally replace my Circus Ponies Notebook app & am looking for a. I use NoteBook for my passwords, to-do’s and just about everything else, and when my main Notebook seemed to be corrupted, I was a little frantic (you can read more about my file/migration woes below). Circus Ponies: Notebook with features, including syncing audio and notes: Mac, iPad: 24.9529.95. It’s courtesy of Jayson from Circus Ponies, the purveyors of NoteBook, my favorite organizational tool for the Mac.
You’ll be lucky to sell 10,000.This week’s treat is not necessarily a Mac OS treat, but it’s one that saved my proverbial life a couple of days ago, so I thought it warranted a mention. You guys need to take a look at the new market that has been created by the iPhone and iPad app and the new pricing structure that has developed from it.
And so would 20 times the number of people who look at the $30 price tag and say, “ok, I’ll buy”. Software I Use :: Circus Ponies Notebook Posted on Septemby Ben Stevens Posted in Software If there is one product that can best demonstrate the creative possibilities the Mac allows, it is without a doubt Circus Ponies Notebook. It had reputation, loyal users, and over-20-year-long history in business. Circus Ponies NoteBook was a great note-taking app for Mac. If this were priced at a reasonable $4.99, I’d be using it right now and not writing this comment. UPD: check out the latest of CircusPonies-to-Outline import. So, in this new world, you make up for lower prices with Volume Volume Volume!. No overhead, no retail brick and mortar, no return credits. The makers of this software are still living in the old world, where you have to box something up and deal with retailers and all the other things that make a $29.99 price tag necessary. The only problem with this? The $30 price tag went straight to my brain and said, “Forget this”. The Circus Ponies NoteBook for iPad requires iOS 3.2 or later, and it is $29.99 in the iTunes app store. Finding your notes later is easy because of the notebook-like organization method. You can even make an audio recording of the lecture that’s keyed to your notes tapping on a note starts playback at that point.
You can make notes on top of PDFs of class handouts or lecture slides. You can attach files to your notes, so class or meeting handouts stay with your own notes. You can add sketches or diagrams to your notes using the application’s pre-built collection of shapes and line types or just use your finger to draw. You can even use a “highlighter” to make certain notes stand out. You can use multiple fonts and colors to highlight certain points. But the Circus Ponies NoteBook app for iPad promises to let you take notes the way you would on paper. Circus Ponies 'NoteBook' allows you to create notebooks the way you have mentioned and implements the use of services in other applications so that clippings of text or images etc.
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