PRESS RELEASE (Thursday, May 12, 2005)

NoteTaker is a unique and powerful productivity tool for working with unstructured, on-the-fly information. Users launch and use NoteTaker every day to help them organize, gather, share and publish their personal notes, lists, information, web research 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, files and live web pages. NoteTaker's built-in web browsing and Internet search services combine to deliver incomparable web research capabilities in an integrated environment. NoteTaker's innovative firsts includes the popular 1-Step Web Notebook creation for instant web site presentation across multiple platforms, with or without Internet access.

NoteTaker serves the diverse application needs of many users in a broad spectrum of industries, enterprises and markets including education, science, government and business. Its innovative architecture and combination of electronic notebook interface, active full-text indexing/searching, embedded Internet browsing and web search have made NoteTaker an invaluable information processing and multimedia, content creation tool for OS X users. From cutting edge publishing to ground-breaking scientific research, NoteTaker is empowering knowledge workers and creative professionals around the world with more personal productivity and more information power than ever before.

NoteTaker 1.9.6 is the latest free update and includes many new features, enhancements and improvements.

Key highlights in this NoteTaker update:

• Full compatibility with and added support for OSX 10.4 ("Tiger"):


• Spotlight
  The included NoteTaker Metadata Importer allows you to find notebooks quickly and easily by searching on text contents, attachments, and metadata such as authors and contributors.


• Automator
  Over a dozen Automator actions are included for operations on NoteTaker notebooks. Easily integrate NoteTaker into your daily workflow. (Xcode source available for NoteTaker actions from AquaMinds Developer site)


• VoiceOver
  Access the capabilities of NoteTaker through speech, audible cues and keyboard navigation.


• Dashboard widget exclusive - MegaSearch™ for NoteTaker (available exclusively from AquaMinds web site). New widget puts web search information at your fingertips with dynamic notebook report generation


• J2SE 5.0
  Experience the performance benefits of Java 5.0 when running NoteTaker Plug-Ins.


• Web Archives
  Save frozen but complete and fully interactive web pages by simply dragging the web archive icon out of any web entry toolbar.


• Text Formatting Enhancements
  Support for bulleted and numbered lists within entries (via the text ruler), and improvements to the handling of named styles.

• XHTML
  New XHTML output option when exporting NTML from a notebook. Export all or part of a notebook as XHTML and CSS, for easy customization and integration into existing web sites.


• AppleScript
  New Tile and Stack commands for notebook windows, new Link command for entries, new "next" and "back" arguments to the Go command, and other enhancements.


• Text Entry Enhancements
  New editing command Shift-Enter adds a new blank entry above the currently selected entry, for entering notes in reverse chronology.


• Other miscellaneous fixes and performance enhancements to NoteTaker and the bundled applet Plug-Ins.

"Also, our Spotlight plug-in delivers instant support and indexing of notebook content and pages. Again, NoteTaker users that have upgraded to Tiger are getting the best of all worlds. More power, more ease of use and the most accessible, programmable NoteTaker ever. It's truly an elegant platform for information processing."

At Your Fingertips - MegaSearch™ widget delivers turbo-charged web searching directly from Dashboard
"When you combine NoteTaker with Automator and AppleScript you get a lot more flexibility in working with your notebook information. Now, when combine your web search results with your notebook pages, you get an incredibly productive way to improve your research using the Internet but it still requires manual operation and set-up. Our new MegaSearch widget leverages NoteTaker's programmability to automate the web search process by dynamically creating notebook reports on the fly. Just open Dashboard, type in your search term and watch how it creates your personal search notebook automatically in the background," Love said while showing MegaSearch for NoteTaker at a technology briefing.

New NTML to XHTML plug-in allows custom web site integration with cross-platform support
"We've supported XML from day one. This version of NoteTaker introduces a new, seamless plug-in for saving notebook content as XHTML output (single file). NoteTaker users have more options for sharing content with the flexibility of publishing Web Notebooks™ instantly with one button and they can publish to a blog with our AppleScript and Automator support or, they can now customize their XHTML output with their favorite web publishing tool. NoteTaker continues to provide export and import flexibility like no other product in its category."

AquaMinds Developer Site Offers Software Development Kit
Developers, designers and consultants can download the new Software Development Kit for developing plug-in components for NoteTaker. The NoteTaker Plug-in Component Architecture is a technology preview included with the NoteTaker 1.9 update. The plug-in components are mini-applications written as Java applets and directly accessible from NoteTaker's menu. The new API provides many features including persistence, data and information store while also providing APIs for working directly with NoteTaker data in the form of outlines, pages and notebooks. For technical details, check AquaMinds' developer site at www.aquaminds.com/developer.jsp

AquaMinds provides company web log and RSS feeds for monitoring news and company announcements
Users may choose to subscribe to AquaMinds new What'sNew feed (RSS) to monitor updates and company news. AquaMinds new company web log can be found at http://www.aquaminds.com/blog/index.html Subscribe to the feed at www.aquaminds.com/whatsNew.jsp

About NoteTaker for OS X
NoteTaker 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 or project.

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 and gather daily. Using it can be as simple as making lists or as complex as organizing a notebook 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 is a native OS X application developed using Apple's Cocoa platform/development environment. NoteTaker 1.9.6 runs on OS X 10.2.8 or higher. NoteTaker Plug-in Component Architecture requires OS X 10.3 "Panther" and Java 1.4.2 Update 2, or higher. Tiger (10.4) specific support includes Automator, Spotlight, VoiceOver and Dashboard widget (MegaSearch™).

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

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