For Immediate Release (Palo Alto, CA - Thursday, April 22, 2004) - AquaMinds Software Corporation announced today that NoteTaker 2003 for OS X, version 1.8.6 started shipping this week and is now available for download. The update is free to all registered users directly from the company's web site. NoteTaker is available as a 30-day, free trial-evaluation download. AquaMinds On-line Store is open 24 hours a day for direct, electronic purchases and is also sold through national retail and on-line outlets including Apple, J&R, Amazon and leading independent resellers. Academic pricing is available to qualified students, teachers, faculty and staff.

NoteTaker is a unique and powerful productivity tool for working with unstructured, on-the-fly information. Users launch NoteTaker every day to help them organize, gather and publish their information and project notebooks. Notebooks can be as simple as to do list journals or as complex as multi-linked, project binders filled with detailed notes and pages.

NoteTaker serves the diverse application needs of many users in a broad spectrum of industries, enterprises and markets including education, science and business. Its innovative architecture and combination of electronic notebook interface, active full-text indexing, embedded Internet browsing and web searching have made NoteTaker an invaluable information processing and content creation tool for OS X users.

Key highlights in this NoteTaker update:

• Localized version for Japanese (NoteTaker previously localized for German and French)
• Updated Contextual Menu plug-in bundled with update (extends NoteTaker Services for increased productivity)
• Updated User Guide & Documentation Included
• NoteTaker Viewer for OS X updated (free download license)

Contextual Menu plug-in delivers the power of NoteTaker Services, anywhere, anytime
NoteTaker can function as a very powerful Internet research platform with built-in web browsing and built-in web searching. The newly updated Contextual Menu plug-in delivers seamless access to NoteTaker's clipping and search services across the largest number of OS X applications for capturing information. Additionally, NoteTaker Services can now be dynamically assigned on-the-fly using Clip to notebook... and Find in notebook... commands from the new Contextual Menu and system-wide NoteTaker Services.

Updated User Guide & Documentation Included
NoteTaker's User Guide is now updated and current with the latest version. Formatted as a hardcopy user manual, NoteTake's comprehensive documentation is easily printed as a bound software manual. The documentation is also available as an on-line document using Adobe's Acrobat software.

NoteTaker Viewer for OS X updated
The free reader software has also been updated with this release. Visit www.aquaminds.com/viewer.jsp for more information.

AquaMinds' Scott Love talks about NoteTaker 1.8.6
"As promised to our user community, Japanese localization is part of this release. We intend to provide more localizations as our product family grows" said Scott Love, president of AquaMinds Software Corporation. "This version has many performance enhancements especially in the area of Web Notebook™ content. We've benchmarked against very large index pages (in excess of 50,000 words) in live end-user environments with impressive results. Also, we've added new controls to our Contextual Menu to allow additional playback control of QuickTime movies inside of notebook pages as well as inside web notebook pages. This enhancement makes instructional and educational content come alive as NoteTaker continues to evolve as a rich platform for publishing and sharing information."

NoteTaker's Evolution as an Information Power Tool (Internet Integration and Searching Becoming More Transparent To Users)
"NoteTaker 1.8.6 has a newly updated Contextual Menu plug-in and we have enhanced the behavior of our Services in general. The idea is that you can perform powerful Internet searches from within NoteTaker itself, select something you find of interest and clip it with a single command to another page or notebook. Additionally, because our plug-in works with more applications than ever before, you can also perform these same one command clipping services while using a browser or another application other than NoteTaker. It's such a powerful combination to have all of your research notes and clippings in one place while also knowing that they have been automatically indexed for you as well. That's really why NoteTaker is an information power tool for doing all of your daily web research, said Love."

Organized Web Searches from within Notebook pages (add and customize any favorite search sites from Google to Vivisimo)
"When we invented the Web Notebook™ feature, we envisioned a more powerful way for everyday users to leverage the Internet and the Web to their advantage by publishing their own content with a single command. Turning this around, we have further integrated our web page viewing and browsing support by adding built-in web searching directly to NoteTaker's Toolbar. Instead of users hunting for a browser to do a web search, NoteTaker 1.8 users type a search term into their own custom Web Search Box to perform a live, on-demand search whenever connected. The results appear inside of their notebook page as new entry or can they be viewed as a separate window but all within NoteTaker's environment. This is highly desirable since NoteTaker has clipping services and indexing built-in to further harvest user-driven information gathering tasks. NoteTaker defines yet again what a digitally connected notebook can do for improving user productivity and information publishing," said Love.

About NoteTaker for OS X
NoteTaker 2003 for OS X is personal productivity software designed for daily use. NoteTaker allows users to quickly and easily take notes, manage project plans, browse and search the Internet, 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 (Web Notebooks), add voice memos, and, best of all, customize it to fit any digital lifestyle, any information work-style.

For some tasks, generating a long document is not required and yet there is still 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.

Additional Notes
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: NoteTaker 2003 is a native OS X application developed using Apple's Cocoa platform/development environment. NoteTaker 1.8 runs on OS X 10.2.x or higher.

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