FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Palo Alto, CA - October 30, 2003) - AquaMinds Software Corporation announced today that NoteTaker (v1.6.6) is immediately available for download. The update is free to registered users. Additionally, a 30-day trial version is also available for download from the company's web site at www.aquaminds.com in the Downloads section.

NoteTaker 2003 (v1.6.6) is compatible with Apple's new Panther release (OS X 10.3) and directly supports several Panther enhancements including the ability to define and re-use font styles and settings while in multi-line, paragraph text modes. NoteTaker's paragraph formatting ruler also supports pull-down access to the Styles and Spacing options supported under Panther. Users of NoteTaker's popular Create Web Notebook™ feature will also discover two new commands for updating incremental changes to the current web notebook page and also to the current web notebook (conveniently remembering the directory path to homepage site folders or servers where first saved). Web notebooks are a very fast and convenient way to publish desktop information to the Web with just a single command. No web site programming is required.

"Panther is an impressive release from a user as well as a developer standpoint . OS X just keeps getting better. NoteTaker (v1.6.6) has been updated today to support Panther along with adding some modest enhancements requested by our users. We continue to leverage Apple's key platform advantages including NoteTaker's integration of the Safari web kit for live web page viewing within both notebook pages as well as web notebook pages. AppleScript is another key Apple technology we are using as our users have asked for the ability to customize and add their own NoteTaker workflow enhancements," said Scott Love, president and co-founder of AquaMinds.

Other Announcements
AquaMinds also announced that NoteTaker (CD box version) is available in Apple Stores and also from Apple's own on-line store. The AquaMinds on-line store exclusively sells the electronic download version of NoteTaker. Additionally, NoteTaker is available from other featured US retailers including Amazon, CompUSA and J&R.

Information Processing Power Every Day
NoteTaker 2003 for OS X is personal productivity software designed for daily use. With NoteTaker, you can quickly and easily take notes, manage project plans, create simple full screen slide presentations, drag or clip information from other applications (or use NoteTaker Services), index and search notebooks, publish and share information, add voice memos, and, best of all, customize it to fit your digital lifestyle, your information workstyle.

For some tasks, generating a long document is not required and yet there is a need to capture information, organize and process it. Making an outline or creating a list are both examples of tasks that don't necessarily require a word processor and yet the idea of electronic paper for jotting down notes is useful and convenient. Even the capture, retrieval, and organization of random information throughout the day is another example of the need NoteTaker fills.

NoteTaker is an ideal tool for working with unstructured, on-the-fly information you create, organize or gather daily. Using it can be as simple as making lists or as complex as organizing a notebook full of personal notes and pages of information. As NoteTaker's visual metaphor of an electronic spiral notebook with section tabs suggests, there is always the need to find and to retrieve information at anytime without the complexity or the overhead of a database system. Thus, NoteTaker automatically and transparently works behind the scenes to index and categorize notebooks full of information. If it's in NoteTaker, it can be searched and retrieved anytime.

AquaMinds Mission
AquaMinds key mission is to design software products that exhibit more natural user interfaces for lifestyle computing. Meaning, everyday applications that are easy to understand yet powerful enough to accomplish sophisticated projects and work.

This design approach aims not only to eliminate unnecessary command states and confusing user modes but also to encourage experimentation and customization. Simply put, AquaMinds is focused on "mindful" design that strives to bring the most human interface as close to the surface as possible. Software that can be used every single day.

Additional Notes
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: NoteTaker 2003 is a native OS X application developed using Apple's Cocoa platform/development environment. NoteTaker runs on Panther and also runs on OS X 10.2.x or higher.

For a complete list of product features, screen shots and access to downloads, visit AquaMinds web site at www.aquaminds.com A 30-day free demo test-drive version is available for download at http://www.aquaminds.com/download.jsp

PRESS & MEDIA Notes: The screen shot gallery is available at the following location:
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Trademark & Copyright Notice: AquaMinds™ and NoteTaker™ - © Copyright 2002-2003 AquaMinds Software Corporation. AquaMinds™ and NoteTaker™ are trademarks of AquaMinds Software Corporation. The names of actual companies and products mentioned in this document may be the trademarks of their respective companies.