Synergy - Nota Bene

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Opus Opus is the word-processing module of the Nota Bene workstation, designed by academics for academics as the premier word-processing program for serious research and writing, offering, among countless other advanced capabilities:
* Academic styles
* Multiple series of notes
* Frameworks/outlines
* Research tables
Radius Radius is a new, unique, and radically different web research/web clipper tool that captures all kinds of data — academic and pages of personal interest — in both structured (Ibidem and Matrix databases) and unstructured (for searching by Orbis) form, bringing new capabilities to all the NB modules.
Lingua Lingua is an optional module that adds additional characters to Nota Bene (+ Ibidem and Orbis), including hundreds of IPA characters and other special symbols, along with support for the Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, and Hebrew alphabets (both of the latter with full right-to-left orientation and character contextualization)

Separate add-on modules are available for Akkadian, Ugaritic, Coptic, and Syriac
Note-Taking Files Note-taking files are regular NB files linked to specific Ibidem records, and can contain quotations from the source, or summaries, comments, and/or arguments (as regular Nota Bene files they can contain tables, outlines, graphics, cross-referencing, and other standard elements)
Ibidem Ibidem is a bibliographic database manager that can handle tens of thousands of records -- books, articles, etc. -- and then let you cite them in your documents
* As parenthetical in-text
references
* As notes -- full or
shortened subsequent
forms with ibid., etc.

* All citations are auto
updated on all edits
* Conversion between
any of the hundreds
of supported formats
with a few keystrokes
IbidPlus IbidPlus lets you use Ibidem's database structure to set up non-bibliographic databases to keep track of items such as field notes, music collections, movies viewed, and other similar items
Matrix Matrixs manages non-bibliographic data — mailing lists, field notes, music collections, movies viewed, and other similar items — using Ibidem's powerful searching, sorting, and file-linking options, and includes the most sophisticated report generator (including for mailing labels) you can find anywhere
Orbis Orbis is the research core of Nota Bene, providing access to literally hundreds of thousands of documents — Nota Bene, text, PDF, DOCX, saved HTML pages, DOC (legacy Word), and RTF — on your computer, showing matching entries (you choose the type, but paragraphs are the default) based on single word, phrase, or Boolean (and, or, and not) searches in a concordance-style keyword-in-context view, along with the full match, with any additional desired context
Orbis Everywhere Orbis works hand and glove with Nota Bene -- it finds long-lost texts and helps you discover new relationships by noting the way words are used and arguments made in disparate texts, for use (simply paste them in) Nota Bene documents, which themselves can become part of Orbis' every expanding searchable knowledge base
Orbis+ Orbis+ is an optional module that expands the kinds of files (saved locally on your computer) that Orbis can include in its knowledge base:
1. PDF files
2. HTML pages
3. DOCX files
4. DOC (legacy Word)
5. RTF files (format
used by many programs)
Archiva Archiva lets you build Ibidem databases by:
1. Capturing web citations
(e.g., from JStor &
Project Muse)
2. Searching hundreds of
on-line libraries
Archiva+ Archiva+ is an add-on module that enables:
3. Retrieving bibliographic
data for ISBN #'s
4. Converting formatted
bibliographies
(in electronic form)
Automatic Linking If a passage of text retrieved from the Orbis knowledge base is from a note-taking file linked to an Ibidem record, it will automatically include the reference when that text is copied into your working document, thus making sure that sources are complete and updated
Searchable in Knowledge Base All note-taking files can automatically be included as part of the searchable knowledge base -- built up out of all your work in Nota Bene -- provided by Orbis
Keyboard Even if entering biblio- graphic records manually, Ibidem offers a full set of templates/types of work that let you capture all the important data needed when citing a work in a paper

The Nota Bene Synergy — a Single Example

①	Create an Ibidem bibliographic record, by capturing it with Archiva or entering it manually
②	Create a note-taking file linked to this record (using any/all of the power of Opus ) that contains quotations from the source, along with comments and critiques, or anything else (a table, images, and more)
③	This note-taking file can automatically be included in your Orbis knowledge base, along with anything else you write in Nota Bene, as well as any other documents — PDF, DOCX, HTML pages retrieved from the web — on your local machine
④	If an Orbis search (when looking up the word at the cursor while writing, or by typing a search string, phrase, or boolean expression in the search box) finds a match from a note-taking file, it will automatically bring the Ibidem source (along with the retrieved text) found by Orbis (with or without context) into your working Opus document

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