Notae 2
Organize your notes, organize your life.

Download 2.2.1 (What’s new in 2?)

Everyone has a lot of notes. Some of them are organized, most of them aren’t. It doesn’t have to be that way.

Notae keeps all of your thoughts together. It lets you tag each item with words that are important to you, not just with predefined labels. Then, when you need that data the most, Notae lets you quickly search your data by content or tag to find what you’re looking for.

Get Organized Notae is a cleanly-designed and powerful notebook for Mac OS X that enables you to create a large number of notes and quickly organize them with tags (which are similar to keywords).	Quick Location Notae lets you search through all of your notes’ content, title, tags, and comments in one search, instantly. Keyboard shortcuts let you pick any of the first ten results and get to work without touching the mouse.
Import/Export Notae imports a wide variety of formats including plain text, RTF, RTFD, Word, WordML, HTML, URL and text clippings, PDFs, Web Archives, and even websites straight from the network. You can also export to most of the same formats, preserving your data and making it interchangeable with other programs.	Services Galore You can select text or a URL in any program and, via Mac OS X Services, tell Notae to import that data and make a new note. You can even drag URLs and text to the application icon to do the same.
iPod Note on your iPod? Sure! Notae can detect any attached iPods, even multiple iPods, and export any document’s notes as text notes that are readable with any model of iPod that supports text notes. Notae can also use the Mac OS X Text-To-Speech ability to export a single note or entire notebook as audio files and add them to iTunes, ready for synching with any number of iPods.	Tag Browser One of the pitfalls of using tags to categorize things is the sheer number and diversity of tags that you wind up using to describe your notes. Notae solves this with a unique feature called the Tag Browser. Your tags are listed by popularity and as you click on one another column appears with tags related to that tag and your notes are instantly filtered. Keep going down the list to find the note you’re looking for. This is especially handy if you don’t know any words to search on to find an old snippet.
Quick Notes With a simple key press you define, Notae will display the Quick Note panel allowing for unobtrusive note-taking in whatever program you’re in. With a different press you can bring Notae to the front at any time for more intensive work.	AppleScript Notae has a complete AppleScript dictionary including note creation, deletion, editing, exporting, and importing. If Notae doesn’t do it by itself, you can likely do it with AppleScript.

 

Testimonials

“Notae is one of my favorite applications for collecting large quantities of notes and its tagging implementation is one of the best you’ll find in Mac software.”
Ian Beck, Tagamac

“Notae is a minor stroke of brilliance.”
Crucial

“This is the only note-taking software I’ve been able to use comfortably for more than five minutes. Full-featured, stable, and, above all, transparent. Notae finally gets it right at a downright reasonable price.”
Adrian L. D. Sampson

“Notae is the first notebook-type program that I’ve used that has an interface that is pleasant to use and pleasant to look at. Even though I got Mori for free, I decided to pay for Notae because it’s the only notebook program so far that I can actually see myself using.”
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New to Notae 2.2

Templates

Notes can now be flagged as template notes. Template notes are snippets that can be inserted into other notes as you work. Have a specific set of questions you’re answering over and over again in new notes? Make a template and insert it into any new note that follows that form. Beats finding the note and duplicating it any day.

Partial Tag Name Search

After significant demand, Notae now supports searching for tags by only using a portion of their name. Search is still lightning-fast!

 

More Than a Notebook

Notae is a notebook, but it’s also a bit more. In a paper notebook one will often grab newspaper clippings and paste them in to keep track of them, or tape in photos or art that are relevant. Notae does this, too. In any note you can drag in images or files that are relevant to what you’re doing and easily drag them out later. Need to reference a PDF or web page? No problem. Notae can store PDFs and Web Archive files natively as if they were any other note.

In fact, if you drag in a URL, Notae will fetch the web page and store a Web Archive of it so you can always see the page as it was, not as it is.

 

Minimalist, to the End

Paper notebooks have long been used for more than just notes. They’ve been used by writers for scribbling out rough drafts far from others and without distractions. Writing takes a lot of concentration sometimes, and Notae respects that in two ways. The first is a full-screen mode, new to Notae 2. In a stroke the screen is clear and your work is front and center. Repeat the stroke and you’re back to your notebook.

Can’t spare to miss your desktop? No problem. Everything in Notae’s document window can be hidden, giving you your own little space to write in, just like full-screen mode, but without taking up a screen.

 

Search

Notae screams through full-content searches of your notes. It can search through megabytes of information in an instant, no matter if the words are in the title, the content, the comments, or the tags. Notae will find your note in the midst of the chaff.

In addition, Notae makes sure Spotlight knows all about the contents of your notebooks and even pre-fills the search for you when a document is opened from Spotlight, just like Mail and Preview.

 

Importing

Gather all of your information in one swoop. Point Notae’s importer at a folder and it’ll drill down and suck in every file it understands, and it understands a lot of them. Everything it can export it can import as well as text clippings (as text notes) and URL clippings (as web notes).

Once you’ve imported your old web archives into Notae for storage and searching, you can also add new pages in one of two ways. The first is the clippings service whereby you can take the current selection in the active program and tell Notae to make a new note out of it. In Firefox or Safari, simply select the whole page and activate the service to create a new note in the background.

You can also use Notae’s URL import feature by dragging any link from Safari into the notes list in Notae and Notae will fetch the page, graphics and all, and save a new note. If you just have the URL, that’s fine; Notae has quick access to this feature with a keyboard shortcut (⌘⌥N) or from the File menu.

In fact, Notae loves your data so much that it will take it any way you can throw it at it. Drag text or files to the notes list or application icon in the dock and Notae will suck the data in automatically. Drag URLs and it will trigger an import. Notae’s all about zee drag-n-droppen.

 

Classify

Once you have your data, how do you find it later? Sure, you can use Notae’s lightning-fast search to find the content of your notes, but what if you want to find a group of related items? Tag them. Notae uses the popular categorization technique of tags to allow you to create a folksonomy in your own documents. Working on a report for work? Just start typing: work, report, client:bob. Notae will break up what you type, creating tags or reusing existing ones as you go. No fuss. When you want to find your note again, simply search for the name of that tag and it will come right up.

Want to see a cluster of tags? Activate the tag browser and an iTunes like browser will come down and let you drill down through your tags to find the right one, narrowing your list of notes as you go rather than piecing together searches or filtering by one tag alone.

Sometimes, however, even tags won’t do it. Sometimes you just need to write a note about your note, so Notae lets you do that as well. Every note has a comments field where you can leave notes to yourself such as where you were when you wrote the note or where you left off last. No need to keep search fodder in your note, use the comments area for keywords or descriptive phrases you know you’ll search on later.

Quick Note

With Notae’s Quick Note feature, you can assign a global keyboard shortcut and take notes anywhere, in any application. Invoke the window, drag in or type some content, set the title and tags if you wish, and then hit save. If you don’t name it, Notae will. It’s quick, it’s easy, and it’ll change how you collect information.

AppleScript

Notae 2.1 includes full AppleScript support including support for importing and exporting notes; manipulating tags; and creating, editing, and deleting notes directly. If Notae doesn’t do it, you can do it with AppleScript.

System-Wide Shortcuts

Bring Notae to the front with one keystroke. With a different one, bring it to the front and have it prepare a new note for you, ready for typing or pasting. Or bring up Quick Note anywhere you are without activating Notae. It’s up to you.

 

The Little Things

A good program is all about the little things, and Notae is no exception. Here are a few of the little things you may notice when using Notae.

Keyboard-Centric Design

Your fingers are typing, so why should they need to use the mouse? Notae was designed with that idea in mind, so your hands don’t have to stop typing — highlighting, strikethrough, kerning, baseline, size, and others are all available via keyboard shortcuts.

Read-Only Notes

Done with that article? Saving that story? Lock your note and you will never accidentally change the content. Lock notes in a batch or one-by-one, or quickly unlock a note for a simple change before closing it up again. Oddly enough, not being able to edit a note is just as useful as the powerful editing Notae brings your unlocked notes.

Widescreen Mode

Have a widescreen Mac? Rotate Notae’s editing view and you can keep all of your vertical real estate for editing and see even more of your list of notes. Win-win.

A Real Fonts Menu

Fonts are a very visual medium and while Mac OS X’s font panel is admirably well-suited to organization, it does little to help you when you know what it looks like, but know little else. Notae can help.

 

What Else Can I Do With My Notes?

Notae is a note-taking powerhouse. Up front, it lets you write, organize, and find. When you’re done with that, however, you can do just about anything else with your creation.

Printing

Yes, people still use paper, and Notae understands that. All note types print cleanly and clearly. You’re welcome, tree-killers.

Export to Files

No lock in. Export your text notes to: RTFD, RTF, MS Word (Doc or XML formats), WordML, HTML, or plain text. You can also export your PDFs and Web Archives to their native formats to share them or open them in Safari or Preview.

Export to iPod

Connect a note-capable iPod (or several) and Notae will let you export your notebook as plain text files to that iPod, letting you take your content on-the-go. If you have more than one iPod connected, Notae will let you export to some or all of them at one time, which is great for loading iPods with information such as contact lists or client information.

Export to Audio

Using Mac OS X’s Text to Speech capabilities, Notae can read your notes to AIFF audio files. You can even tell Notae to load the list up in iTunes and encode it for use on your iPod.

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