I’m calling it. I’m tired of preparing. No new bugs filed in two weeks and all the old ones deferred or fixed. The only thing left was the help book and while I got a start on it, my brain is fried.

It’s here, it’s done. Come and get it. It’s a free upgrade to you 1.x users and it should come down the auto-update pipe on your next launch. You’ll be prompted to convert your documents, so save the new one with a new name somewhere and use it from there. Otherwise, you’re golden.

You’ll notice a redesigned Notae product page, too. I want to thank the guys on the MacSB list and IRC channel for their ideas and help with that. I appreciate it a lot.

Oh, and if you haven’t bought a license, it just went up to $29. Tough. Well, okay, not so tough. Until 1/31/07 you can use the coupon LAUNCHSPECIAL at checkout to get 50% off (the old price). It’s a transition, so I’m being nice.

Update: Also, I’ve modified the volume license. If you get a second copy, the price drops to $20 each. It drops pretty fast and as you get to the point where you’re outfitting an office or lab it’ll hit rock-bottom at $10/seat in bulk.

Major Features

• Supports multiple note types, including rich text, PDF (read-only), and Web Archive (read-only).
• Exports to iPod as textual notes, even to multiple iPods at once.
• Full-screen editing mode.
• Tags browser makes it much easier to find notes without searching.
• Note header makes editing tags and renaming much easier.
• System-wide shortcuts to activate Notae and optionally prepare a new note for entry.

• Quick Entry window (with an SWS) to add one-off notes or have a little scratch pad.

Minor Features

• Imports Web Archive, URLs, and HTML files on-disk as web notes.
• Imports PDF files on-disk as PDF notes.
• Imports text clippings as text notes.
• New option to do nothing at startup.
• Complete Unified appearance. Pinstripes are dead.
• When the system’s locale is set to use Metric, metric byte units are used for display.
• Search now has an optional “exact phrase” mode in the search menu.
• Dragging a tag from the tag list to a selected note in the notes list will add the tag to every selected note.
• Note header changes color to denote first responder status; uses user-set highlight colors.
• Tag and Info panels now have a background color to remove the pinstripes.
• Info panel design cleanup
• Date column now reduces the format of the date and time depending on column width, like the Finder and Mail
• Notae can import text clipping files as text notes

• Notae can import web location files as web archives (drag a URL to the desktop to create one)