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NoteCase Pro (by Virtual Sky software) is a professional Outliner application for Windows, Linux, Mac, Open Solaris, FreeBSD and various mobile platforms, such as Nokia Meamo and the Pandora.

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Click here to download NoteCase Pro! Click here to find NoteCase Pro Plugins
Click here to buy a NoteCase Pro license Click here to buy a NoteCase Pro Plugin license

What is NoteCase Pro? What is an Outliner?

An Outliner (see Wikipedia article) is a tool to manage information in a hierachical way. This is similar to Mindmapping (English definition, German definition), with the only difference that the outline tree is not presented as a map, but as a nested list with indentations.

Following kinds of information can be managed with NoteCase Pro:

  • Plain text
  • Rich text formatting
  • Embedded images
  • Web links
  • Internal links
  • Any kind of files attached to nodes
  • Tagging / Categorizing
  • Audio notes


Usage examples:

  • Note collection
    (no cluttering of notes on your desktop anymore)
  • Quick brainstorming
    (configurable keyboard shortcuts make usage very efficient)
  • Knowledge base / Information archive
    (with excellent search features it's easy to find information)
  • Structuring, authoring and publishing
    (books, papers, quick website generation: See example: This page has been created with NoteCase Pro)
  • Todo lists and advanced task management
    (incl. reminders, priorities, different task views, sorting etc.)
  • Advanced task management
    (using the Getting Things Done Plugin)
  • Diary
    (using the strong file encryption feature, date/timestamp features etc.)
  • Taking minutes of meetings or dialogues
    (with CSS-supported HTML export feature you can rapidly generate a meeting report to be sent to the participants)
  • Password safe
    (using strong encryption)
  • Project management
    (for documents with hierachical structure, and as a general project overview tool)
  • Anything else
    (NoteCase Pro is scriptable, meaning that you can enhance NoteCase Pro by your own features easily)
  • And even: Development of NoteCase Pro Plugins
    using the "Plugin Developer Tools" Plugin


NoteCase Pro is a multi-platform application. It is available for:

  • Microsoft Windows 9x / XP / Vista / 7 (32 or 64 bit)
  • Microsoft Windows 9x / XP / Vista / 7 (portable version for USB thumb drive, 32 or 64 bit)
  • Linux (binary packages for different distributions)
  • Mac OS X
  • FreeBSD
  • Open Solaris
  • Mobile platforms
    • UMPCs such as the Viliv N5, UMID mbook etc (Windows XP / 7).
    • OpenPandora (Linux)
    • Nokia Maemo (Linux)
    • Sharp Zaurus with pdaXrom or weeXpc (Linux)
    • Asus EeePC
    • An Android version is planned

This list is not complete.
In order to check wether your platform is supported, please go to the download page of NoteCase Pro: Click here.

Screenshots of NoteCase (Pro) on different platforms

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Download, Free trial mode, Licensing

Click here to download NoteCase Pro!  

After installing, you can choose between two trial modes. One is limited in features, and one is limited in document size. You may not need to buy a license if you don't want to use all the advanced features, since trial mode is not limited in time.

Like to use the advanced features with unlimited document size? Then buy a license:

Click here to buy a NoteCase Pro license

Licenses are available from 25.00 Euro for a one-platform one-user license. Multi-platform and multi-user licenses are also available.

Feature highlights

  • Task management: Each node in the outline can be a task.
    Reminders, Task-only view etc.
  • Powerful HTML export (Publish and share your information), Postprocessing capability.
    NoteCase Pro can be used as a complete web site authoring solution: HTML export even manages entire webs of documents, supporting document links and translating them into web links, featuring CSS style sheets etc. Just upload the generated HTML files to your webspace and your homepage is ready.
  • Bookmarks
  • Import of many file formats supported, e.g. OPML, RTF, MindMap/LX documents, 200LX Notetaker (NDB files), NoteCenter, gjots2, StickyNotes, Knowit, Keynote, Treepad, Tuxcards, Tomboy, Vault, Notekeeper
  • Audio note recording
  • Tagging and Tag Cloud view
  • Efficient keybord-only operation possible using configurable shortcuts
  • Powerful search feature
    Supports Regular Expressions, boolean queries, saving of queries (presets); results can be shown in a special list view and there is an incremental Quick Search mode
  • Document merging / synchronisation
  • Scripting
    Adapt NoteCase Pro to your individual needs, automate it, empower it by your own features. Many example scripts are available. Almost 200 scriptable program commands (APIs) available, the number is growing. Scripting language: Lua.
  • NoteCase Pro is very actively developed, with new releases approximately on a monthly schedule. So if you need a special feature, you can contact the author and discuss it with him. Frequent updates are published by the author. Customers of the Pro version are notified about available updates.
  • Linking
    Links to external resources and internal notes supported
  • Rich text formatting
  • Image embedding
  • Attaching files of any kind to notes
  • Spellchecker
  • Plugin support


NoteCase Pro Plugins

Plugins are files, which supply new features to NoteCase Pro in a very simple way:
  • Download a Plugin
  • register the Plugin in NoteCase Pro
  • Use the new features

Click here to find NoteCase Pro Plugins

Lua scripting support

In case you wish to implement new features using scripting, or develop your own Plugins for NoteCase Pro, you may request support from hermocom.

Discussion group for NoteCase Pro users

Google Group for NoteCase Pro.
(You don't need a Google account for reading or even writing. Only for advanced actions, you need to have or create a free Google account.)

From MM/LX to NoteCase Pro (hermocom's role in the NoteCase Pro project)

NoteCase Pro, albeit it's promoted here on www.hermocom.com, is not a hermocom product.
I have, however, close contact with the author of NoteCase Pro, Miroslav Rajcic, and we often discuss new feature ideas. A lot of my feature ideas are implemented in NoteCase Pro already. These ideas mainly come from my own needs for an Outliner as a personal information manager (PIM) and from experiences when I continued the development of MindMap/LX (MM/LX), a mindmapping application for HP Palmtops. Under References you can read a reference written by Avi Meshar, CEO of D&A software, about my work on MM/LX.

Based on my ideas, Miroslav Rajcic implemented some features which make NoteCase Pro an even more flexible and powerful tool, such as
  • The Plugin interface; the specification was a close cooperation between Miroslav Rajcic and me
  • CSS-powered HTML export
  • Task management
  • The powerful search feature with "fill results to list" function
  • And a lot of other, minor things, mainly enhancing the user-friendliness and scriptability.


NoteCase reviews on the Internet:

Note that the following reviews are about the now discontinued free version called "NoteCase", not about NoteCase Pro. NoteCase has much less features than NoteCase Pro.
Zuletzt aktualisiert am Dienstag, den 17. Januar 2012
 
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