NoteBook Discussion Forums: Using Circus Ponies NoteBook

all alone ? (commented by ptram)

ptram — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:33:03 +0000

I find MyMind surprisingly good, for how light it is. And, until it is free, it is also in the desired price range…

Open a notebook with a certain page (by Guan Gui)

Guan Gui — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:31:46 +0000

The application always open a notebook with last visited page. Is it possible to open a notebook with a page that I specified as launching option in it ?

iPad? (commented by Michael)

Michael — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:06:08 +0000

Just wanted to add a “me too” to this thread. I use Notebook for my lab notebook and would be great to have it on the iPad, rather than my laptop, to use at the bench.

all alone ? (commented by EG)

EG — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:04:47 +0000

What sort of writing projects are being discussed here?

Incorporating this tool into writing projects – small ones, seems to be useful, if you are writing technical docs that are outline or TOC driven & not really massive.

Its a pretty good tool. Lends itself to organizing thoughts in projects which are structured.

However, I wonder if you are going to be able to accomplish that “Great American Novel!” It seems to me StoryMill or Montage might be a better tool overall for creative writing of any extended length.

Not that I want to direct you to another tool…

A really decent mindmapper doesn’t seem to exist – at least affordably. There are the open source critters like Freemind & ThinkingRock, but I’d love to hear if anyone has really hit upon a facile one which is under $100.

Inspiration is OK, but a little clunky for my taste.

Inserting a table. (commented by EG)

EG — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:55:16 +0000

How about the NEST TABLE function?
Anyone mastered this?

I was expecting to be able to subordinate a table within a table,
in order to have a header category within a table.

You are getting copy & paste to work?
That seems to yield an uneditable tiff file.

iPad? (by motleymuse)

motleymuse — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:17:24 +0000

Are there any plans to make a Notebook app for the iPad? I’m not surprised we never got an iPhone app—the iPhone screen is just too small for displaying and working with Notebooks—but it seems like Notebook could be amazing on the iPad. I already use it on my laptop for all my curriculum and lesson planning and I can think of so many ways to expand my usage in my teaching and home life if I had it on the iPad.

Clipping and Placement on Page (by Noreen)

Noreen — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:21:55 +0000

I love the clipping ability, but am having some trouble with the placement of the clip. When I select the option to clip it to the page I want, the entire item clipped is pasted at the top of the page.

Do I have to manually insert the curser on the spot where I want the clip, then clip?

immortal file? (commented by Eric)

Eric — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:46:47 +0000

Good to hear! From all the syncing applications that we hear about from our customers, DropBox seems to work pretty well with NoteBook, which also uses file packages like Numbers and Pages.

If it didn’t, these forums would be the place you’d hear about it! :-)

immortal file? (commented by Don Truett)

Don Truett — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:10:48 +0000

The fix you sent seems to be working perfectly. Thanks. One of the great things about Dropbox is that, unlike SugarSync, it handles packages, such as Numbers or Pages.

Newby Question on Voice Annotation (by iGregor)

iGregor — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:28:56 +0000

I noticed that Voice Annotation files open in iTunes as QT.mov files. Is there some way to change the default recording file format to MP3 in order to reduce the size of associated NB files? How?

Thanks.

immortal file? (commented by Eric)

Eric — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:05:02 +0000

Hi Don,

Please send a message to support here and we can get you a fix for the .moddates issue you are seeing. The fix will be included in the next update to NoteBook as well.

I agree that’s not a smooth workflow. Syncing is a very complicated activity and it’s made more complex when working with file packages (which is what a Notebook file is). We’ve seen data loss before that has likely resulted from some third party syncing software.

The ability to sync a Notebook is on NoteBook’s possible future features list, by the way.

immortal file? (commented by Don Truett)

Don Truett — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:26:28 +0000

This problem just started for me yesterday and is unbelievably annoying. It’s happening with a notebook I’ve had on Dropbox for months with no problems until now.
Eric, with all due respect, I don’t think zipping the notebook, then expanding it at the other computer, rezipping again, etc is anyone’s idea of a good workflow.
All I want is my notebook to work the way it did 2 days ago. I’m baffled as to why it would change.
p.s. In the course of typing this, I’ve had about 15 Growl messages pop up in the periphery of my vision.

Newby Questions about Shapes, Format & Styles (by iGregor)

iGregor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:51:44 +0000

I’m a new user with several questions about Shapes, Formats & Styles.

(1) Can shapes be grouped so that a diagram created with various shapes can be grouped and moved as a single unit (as in the Illustration in LectureNotes.jpg below)? How?

(2) Can a note page be formatted so that notes appear to follow a shape illustration? I seem unable to format notes/bullets so that they appear lower on the page (eg., in LectureNotes.jpg below, the Illustration is supposed to appear between bullets 3 & 4, but, instead lands on top of bullet 4). Is there some way to set a gap between note entries into which a shape illustration is inserted? How?

(3) How can a note bullet entry style (ruler indent and tab settings) be set as the default for all note entries on all note pages? I’m able to set the style (ruler indent and tab settings) for a given page (desired format in LectureNotes.jpg below), but new pages seem to revert to original (default?) settings. How to make NB format stick to the style settings I want?

Thanks.

DayBook 2010 7th Edition - A (GTD) NoteBook Template (commented by al fru)

al fru — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:17:02 +0000

Please send me a copy to

afru@ymail.com

Thank you

Default Options (by David J. Schachner)

David J. Schachner — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:39:00 +0000

Is there a way to change some default settings for notebooks, specifically, bullet options and handle options? Every time I make a new page in a notebook, I need to setup my custom bullet options. I’d like to be able to have every page start with the options I keep having to customize.

Thank you for your help.

Moving a pages "with attachment" to a different notebook? (commented by AWDriver)

AWDriver — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:31:37 +0000

Try saving the new notebook before you browse it, so in the contents divider select what pages/dividers you want, copy, paste into new notebook, save as, save. The attached files are nested in a package file, where the .nb file isn’t really a file, it’s a folder that houses Notebook specific files and your attachments. Your stuff is probably not displaying since you haven’t saved it to the HD, so it can’t reference the actual attached file/image. I’ve done this before with attachments, so try saving the new NB.

As for crash, copy the crash report and console error messages and submit a bug report.

No Voice annotation in Writing Page? (commented by AWDriver)

AWDriver — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:20:55 +0000

Mariko, do you mean that it would highlight the text you typed as it recorded like in OneNote?

How to move cells to a other pages? (commented by AWDriver)

AWDriver — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:19:21 +0000

Cut + paste is easiest, or you can drag to desired page in contents card.

You probably can’t get it to work with tabs since those are dividers, you can’t have outline cells in the divider, just outline or writing pages. Make sure you aren’t trying to drag to divider tabs.

Feature Inquiry/Request (by iGregor)

iGregor — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:37:30 +0000

I’m a new user in need of several key features that appear to be missing from NB, or are well-hidden. If missing, then request that CP add to the NB wish list. If well-hidden, then request someone show me where I can find them.

(1) I need a way to sync NB files between a desktop and laptop simply and automatically—without the manual work-arounds (locate NB file, compress it, send to MobileMe or DropBox or whatever) described in the forums.

(2) I’d like a way to backup NB files to an alternative drive automatically on quit.

(3) I’d like to be able to use Outline features (bullets, children, etc.) on Cornell Note pages, and track Voice Annotations to each entry in the Outline.

(4) I anticipate that I will soon like to be able to sync to iPad…

Thanks.

Sync NoteBook between computers (commented by Gimpei)

Gimpei — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:24:04 +0000

I’m using Microsoft Live Sync and haven’t had any problems so far. It’s free and almost no limitation.
http://sync.live.com/
Once you set folder to sync, you don’t need to do anything. Edit files, and quit NoteBook. All files will be synced automatically.

One note to use Live Sync. You need to run both machine during sync. If you can not run a machine at the same time, for example if you shut down Mac Pro when you use MacBook Pro, SkyDrive may be more useful for you.

Good luck,