NoteBook Discussion Forums: Using Circus Ponies NoteBook

Stickies (commented by Eric)

Eric — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:02:00 +0000

We’ve identified the steps to reproduce this issue and our software development team is looking into it. In the meantime, you can get rid of the persistent stickies by quitting NoteBook in the App Switcher.

Stickies (commented by markG)

markG — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:27:36 +0000

I am having the same problem and just submitted a bug report to Technical Support. Mine doesn’t have any annotations or other documents associcated. I just added a sticky to one page to mark something as IMPORTANT. Now the same sticky appears on every page of every notebook. No way to remove it.

How to scale a page (by wrothnie)

wrothnie — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:26:12 +0000

In his video tutorial on using Notebook for iPad (2nd one), Don McAllister talks of scaling the page.

How does he do this?

Also, if I drop a pdf or jpeg into a Notebook so that it can be annotated, is there a way I can zoom or scale that when looking at it on my iPad?

Importing from Ecco Pro (commented by jshadow007)

jshadow007 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:59:41 +0000

Copy your outline from your old program and then in NB, go to edit – paste as – outline.

I’m a bit rusty as I mostly use NB on my ipad lately, and I’m not right near a desktop to look it up, but I believe there’s an option like this that should help!

ANY note or scribble moves around..AHH!! (commented by Eric)

Eric — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:02:26 +0000

You’re welcome. You should be able to insert a page break. I had replied to you in a support message but didn’t realize the command was dimmed for you. You need to have an outline item selected for this command to be available. If that’s still not working, write back to me via e-mail and we’ll figure it out.

ANY note or scribble moves around..AHH!! (commented by Luis Carral-Dumont)

Luis Carral-Dumont — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:08:29 +0000

Thanks Eric for clearing up some of these issues – Hopefully, future versions will improve in these areas since otherwise the NB software is quite good – Its these seemingly little things that cause the biggest amount of aggravation to, from what I gather from the post, several other people in addition to myself.

Thank you again.

CUSTOMER SERVICE?? (commented by Luis Carral-Dumont)

Luis Carral-Dumont — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:02:44 +0000

JUST got your answers to my issues Eric, thank you so much for getting back to me.
Really appreciate it.

CUSTOMER SERVICE?? (commented by Eric)

Eric — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:25:27 +0000

Hello Luis,

We’re sorry about the delay. I just replied to your inquiry. We’ve have quite a few support requests lately and are working hard to get caught up.

CUSTOMER SERVICE?? (commented by Luis Carral-Dumont)

Luis Carral-Dumont — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:48:32 +0000

Thanks Mark – I did recieve a confirmation e-mail but nothing since. Oh well, guess Ill just keep waiting.

Thanks again

CUSTOMER SERVICE?? (commented by markG)

markG — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:14:34 +0000

It worked for me about a month ago. I think I received a confirmation email first, and then an answer about 24 hours later.

CUSTOMER SERVICE?? (by Luis Carral-Dumont)

Luis Carral-Dumont — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:52:04 +0000

Hey guys – Does anyone know if the customer service form they direct you to actually gets answered?
It’s been two days and no reply – I’d call but their website specifically says they wont answer
ANY tech questions via phone. Does anyone else find this odd? Meanwhile Im afraid of using the NB
program given how badly it messed up my notes so far and every day that passes is just more hand-writen notes
I’ll need to RE-ENTER, hopefully with a “fixed” CP, but if not with Scrivener or Evernote because so far sooo not impressed with CP software OR its customer service.

Thanks

Printing Problems (commented by Luis Carral-Dumont)

Luis Carral-Dumont — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:16:45 +0000

I have version 3!! and STILL cant print individual pages…or even WHOLE pages for that matter, the page-break option is “grayed out” – you cant print pages, everything must be in toilet-paper format where your notes get printed out in a haphazard, random and unusable way.

Insert New Page (commented by Luis Carral-Dumont)

Luis Carral-Dumont — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:11:54 +0000

yebdox – youre sooo right. Its completely useless for taking notes if you want to print them out to study – Also, everything you annotate moves around every time you reopen a notebook making annotating or placing ANY kind of arrow, scribble etc into your notes useless and very distracting seeing that they just migrate to random places on the page. Ive even had them “magically” appear in far away pages that have no relation with the comments they contain. Its hard to believe this was made for Mac given the complete randomness of the interface – Ive had to redo ALL my notes BY HAND (talk about wasted hours) just to get away from this thing until someone from customer service can answer/solve a single of these multiple bugs – still waiting to hear back….

Text disappearing in Cornell page (commented by Luis Carral-Dumont)

Luis Carral-Dumont — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:59:21 +0000

You didnt do anything – I had the same problem and its not only missing info, you will also notice that the left and the right columns will NOT match at the proper level if you reopen the notebook at a later date – It destroyed HOURS of notes. This thing is buggier than Microsoft stuff…geesssss. Have had one thing after another go wrong, move, get delated…ugh

Page Wrap? (commented by Luis Carral-Dumont)

Luis Carral-Dumont — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:55:54 +0000

I agree with yebdox – WHY not have the page breaks actually WORK? That way those who want regular sized pages can have them and those that want the toilet-paper like rolls that are utterly unprintable can have them too.
I find it ridiculous that this very VERY basic feature is not a given – Basically CP designers are saying – you want to print them out? NO WAY!! – Why should the program dictate how we organize our own notes? Talk about UNflexible. I made the mistake of buying the whole think never thinking such an elemental feature would be missing…VERY disappointing.
P.S. any note, shape or ink also moves around randomly every time you re-open a notebook…talk about aggravating – are these bugs??? When will they get fixed? I had to spend 3+ HOURS figuring out which side notes, inks and shapes belonged where…..SOOOO FRUSTRATING and SUCH a time waster.

ANY note or scribble moves around..AHH!! (by Luis Carral-Dumont)

Luis Carral-Dumont — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:42:40 +0000

Does anyone know HOW on EARTH can one annotate notes and have them STAY IN PLACE??
I HAVE TRIED everything: TRIES THE POST-ITS, FLAGS, ETC and they just move w the screen.
Then I tried adding SHAPES and writing inside them – nope, they only stay put for
that session – the next time you open the notebook they migrate all over the place
and it becomes a NIGHTMARE to remember which went where – the SAME thing happens
when you use “INK” – its fine for that session, but when you reopen the notebook they are
all scattered in different pages, locations, etc.
This is SOOOO ANNOYING OMG!! It renders the whole POINT of taking digital notes null

Also – it will NOT LET ME INSERT A PAGE BREAK! The command is there, but its “grayed out”
So basically when I try to print them out, my notes are a real mess – bits and pieces in
each page.

HELP!!

sync all tasks to one calender (commented by Eric)

Eric — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:35:34 +0000

You can sync to iCal. Then iCal gets synced with iCloud. I’ve not tested this out, but from the reports of others, I believe this works.

Paragraph mode symbol (commented by bweinste)

bweinste — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:21:47 +0000

Thanks Bob.

The indicator for paragraph mode did exist in an earlier version of Notebook. Thanks for requesting they add something for this.

sync all tasks to one calender (commented by Mickey)

Mickey — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:04:38 +0000

I also want to sync to my iCloud calendar, but as you mentioned that it might be set in the ToDo preferences area, that is not the case. You can only choose ical or entourage.
Any additional advice?

Mickey

dayBook 2011 (8th Edition) — A Digital (GTD) Diary (commented by Momo)

Momo — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:09:06 +0000

Hi Peter…again, kudos & thanks for your great template…I use it every day…hope you’re feeling better…