Like NoteTaker, NoteShare is a powerful information processing platform for organizing both structured and unstructured information. It is an ideal tool for organizing written projects, keeping journals, creative brainstorming, doing web research, tracking project task, managing meeting notes, outlining study or lecture notes, aggregating client information, exchanging and presenting ideas, tracking tasks, group authoring and more. 

The AquaMinds user community is a very diverse and dynamic group which includes: students and teachers; scientists and researchers; creative artists and authors; consultants and strategic thinkers; small business and work groups; even home users and hobbyists. Just about anybody who uses a personal computer to organize information uses AquaMinds software to brainstorm new ideas, track a project, write a story or outline a presentation or present research.  Now with NoteShare, users can extend and enhance their use of notebook-based information by sharing and collaborating on-demand or ad hoc as needed. There has never been an easier way to share and work together between two users or many users. 

NoteShare has been in development for over three years. It is focused on allowing users to share information in real-time or in shifted-time modes depending upon the need.  NoteShare supports two or more users working in the same room, two or more users working from different locations, and it supports any combination of both local and remote viewers.   The design goal has always been to allow users to work and share without limitations in location or time. 

NoteShare's key benefits:

1. 1-step, instant sharing is simple (anyone with NoteShare and a personal computer can share a notebook with another NoteShare user) 
2. Sharing can happen anytime, anywhere (same room, same building, same planet)
3. Content is rich (not just text and outlines but dynamic, interactive plug-ins, live web pages, QuickTime, voice annotations, sketches, files)
4. Users create, control and access their data on their own terms; no dependency on an outside hosting service or portal/search site

AquaMinds' Scott Love talks about NoteShare, instant sharing and creativity
"For our company, this is a very important technical milestone. The team has been working on NoteShare for over three years so you can imagine the excitement that's been building up for the past few months.   As the recent New York Times article about NoteShare makes very clear, collaboration and sharing are not new technologies. But until now, they've either been very difficult to set-up or not nearly robust enough especially since users expect drag and drop functionality when working. What NoteShare achieves is a new level of instant sharing that meets the demands of social computing in today's wired/wireless world," said Scott Love, AquaMinds Software's President and co-founder. "Creative work, brainstorming, project management and even one-on-one tutoring all require a sharing solution that is responsive, flexible and content rich.  NoteShare puts the power of sharing notebook-based information in the hands of users, not IT departments or large network companies that host your data. Personal computers are ideal for personal sharing especially when you're mobile and you need access to your data but want to collaborate as well."

Windows users will soon gain access to shared notebook viewing and editing
"AquaMinds is focused on the growing demand for social, pervasive computing solutions and we're announcing Windows access today as well." continued Love. To further meet the demands of social computing, the company will be releasing a family of NoteShare add-ons called NoteShare Express™ which will allow Windows users to access and edit shared notebooks that are running on OS X systems. By the end of 2006, AquaMinds intends to offer NoteShare Express on as many platforms/devices as possible including Linux, PDAs, internet-aware devices and smart phones. The first NoteShare Express add-on will be available for Windows during the second quarter of 2006.   

NoteShare Early Access Promotion Announced for January
AquaMinds will be making NoteShare available to its current customers in January through a special promotional offer. Early adopters will be able to purchase an early release of NoteShare in advance of the final version 1.0 release in March.  For more information about the Early Access Promotion, users can go to www.aquaminds.com to sign-up for notification via the NoteShare email list.  

About NoteShare™ for OS X
NoteShare is a powerful desktop application for creating, publishing and sharing media rich, multi-page notebooks. Users can instantly share their notebooks with other NoteShare users for presenting, viewing and editing information. NoteShare can be used in the same room, same building and same planet for connecting anytime, anywhere. 

NoteShare is an ideal social computing platform for sharing and collaboration. It's a powerful tool for users who already work on team projects or have a need to share notebook information with one or more users in a small group. NoteShare allows users to work on the same shared, interactive notebook from the same room, same building or even remotely from another location via the Internet or a network gateway. NoteShare also allows home or small office users the ability to work from a single notebook remotely while away or in a different location than from where the notebook is being shared.  Presenting, viewing and editing a shared notebook can be done on-demand as needed. Any NoteShare user can view other shared notebooks as well as share their own notebooks.  

Additional Notes

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: NoteShare™ is a native OS X application developed using Apple's Cocoa platform/development environment. NoteShare runs on OS X 10.3.9 or higher. 

For more information about the company and its products, please visit AquaMinds web site at www.aquaminds.com  

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Trademark & Copyright Notice: AquaMinds™®, NoteTaker™ and NoteShare™ - Copyright 2002-2006 Aquaminds Software Corporation. The names of actual companies and products mentioned in this document may be the trademarks of their respective companies.   AquaMinds NoteTaker and AquaMinds NoteShare are registered trademarks.