PRESS RELEASE (Tuesday, November 29, 2005)

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:

• Documentation
  Newly revised and thoroughly updated NoteTaker User's Guide. New interactive web site now available for searching NoteTaker manual pages (HTML) at http://www.aquaminds.com/manual/index.jsp or directly from the Help menu.
• XML
  New XSLT transform provides enhanced multi-page HTML+CSS output via NTML export command
• RSS
  Improved support for displaying RSS feeds in web entries.
• Dynamic Component Plug-Ins
  Text currently being edited is now always included in saved applet data for SketchPad and Table
• Tiger (OS X 10.4 specific feature enhancements)
  Option-esc text completion now supported
  Hyperlinks to Automator workflows and apps now supported
• Hyperlinks
  JavaScript URL scheme now supported (such as bookmarklets used by tagging-based services)
  Hyperlinks to entries on section and contents pages now supported
  Hyperlinks to AppleScripts and Automator workflows or apps now supported
  
• Other Fixes and Enhancements
  Fixes and enhancements to AppleScript, printing, copy and paste, "Save To", hyperlinks, X-Ray View, dock menu, web entries, drawer, page tabs, Page Folios, Highlight & Summarize, compressed notebooks, OPML import, and indexing

AquaMinds' Scott Love talks about NoteTaker, XML plans and future platforms
"As with previous updates, NoteTaker 1.9.9 is a free maintenance release for all registered users. Like Apple, we've been very busy keeping pace with the recent 10.4 releases to fix problems and enhance NoteTaker. This release also brings our User Guide up-to-date with enhanced Tiger-based technologies including Spotlight, VoiceOver, Automator, AppleScript and our breakthrough set of Dashboard widgets that search and gather information from the Internet, said Scott Love, President and co-founder of AquaMinds Software Corporation.

"At the heart of our technology philosophy is AquaMinds' product pledge that user data is not locked-in or trapped by any proprietary file format. Our use of XML is incomparable which also supports dynamic plug-ins to transform NTML (XML) to any other XML-based format such as XHTML. NoteTaker provides a very powerful set of features that support customization as user needs become more sophisticated and demanding. For example, the combination of AppleScript and Automator has allowed AquaMinds to create unique new tools for users including our highly popular MegaSearch series of Dashboard widgets which dynamically create notebooks using web search results from Google, Yahoo!, Teoma and other popular search sites."

"NoteTaker 1.9.9 is the last version which will support all three current versions of OS X (Jaguar, Panther & Tiger). Going forward, all new NoteTaker versions and AquaMinds products will require at least 10.3.9 or higher. And, we are ready to ship a Universal Binary when Apple is ready to offer Intel-based hardware next year. We're excited to be supporting Apple's next generation of hardware and think the Universal Binary is a very compelling solution for users as well as software developers. Apple's done a terrific job of advancing their development tools to make the transition as smooth as possible," Love said recently at a major customer event.

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.

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 is a native OS X application developed using Apple's Cocoa platform/development environment. NoteTaker 1.9.9 runs on OS X 10.2.8 or higher.

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

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