“Nota Bene is faster, more powerful, more rational, more adult, and better adapted to academic needs than anything else on the market.”
Jonathan Bennett — A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals (Oxford University Press, 2003)
“[Nota Bene] is absolutely beautiful. . . .it is fantastic, really fantastic. The visual interface is far and above anything I’ve seen in any program. . . [The ability to link to other programs] is so handy—I cannot tell you how wonderful it is. . . . Nota Bene is brilliant.”
Professor of environmental and design issues, the School of Visual Arts, New York City
“[NB] really knocks my socks off! . . . With each successive release, I think, ‘Okay, that’s it. There’s nothing more to be done.’ . . . You continue to amaze me. . . . Version 8 has taken the roof off and invented an entirely new game.”
Jules B. Levinson — translator, Light of Berotsana
“[Nota Bene] is superb and a pleasure to use,
brimming with features which have been on my (and others’) wish lists.
It again justifies the accolade of the Rolls Royce of the writer’s and researcher’s wordprocessor suite.”
Steven Uran — l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
“You should make more in your sales pitch of the ability of the program to produce paper plates, camera-ready copy, etc. Many of us working with [Nota Bene] are doing stuff that a commercial publisher will not touch because of the expense and complexity in setting up the text. . . . Incidentally, and to blow NB’s trumpet as much as mine, a recent review of my earlier edition described it as a model of what the editing of early-modern documents should aspire to, and the index as a work of art in its own right!”
Dr. V. M. — British Library
“I got the new version just in time for the commentary I am writing, which is all cross referencing back into Virgil’s texts & mine. I could not have carried this off without the new menu!! . . .
This version is superb.”
Professor of classics, City University of New York
“I’m quite an experienced Nota Bene indexer having started about 15 years ago, and every time I have to index a book what you provide gets better and better and more sophisticated.
The present version is incredible.”
John Tyrrell — historian, editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (20 volumes)
“The added functionality of the hyperlink from one NB doc to another — that enable a specific area in the file where the string is first found — is really sweet and extends useability enormously. . . Great job!”
Mark Szuchman — historian & dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, Florida International University
“I wanted to tell you that I’ve just published a book, The Metaphysics of Dante’s Comedy, with Oxford University Press, in the American Academy of Religion series Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion. Every research note, every thought, every page, every citation, every bibliographic entry, every footnote, every index entry, was composed in Nota Bene. I started with Nota Bene back in 1987, when I got my first computer; in a course (one of the first in the country) on computing in the humanities in Columbia’s great (now liquidated) library school, we were told about Nota Bene, and shown its prodigious capacities, then not even remotely emulated by any other program. I began all the research for my dissertation in Nota Bene, keeping track of it all with Orbis and Ibid, and faithfully followed every upgrade since. Through many stages and versions, those early ideas became a book, always in Nota Bene. The book required an enormous bibliography, of some 1500 citations, which Nota Bene generated instantly and almost perfectly, out of the thousands of hidden references sprinkled through my text. Most recently I compiled the index, again using Nota Bene’s indexing features; Oxford told me a professional indexer could not have done it better. I delivered everything to Oxford in Nota Bene, and they produced an elegant and virtually flawless book from it.
Christian Moevs — professor of Italian, University of Notre Dame
“I’d like to humbly disagree with an interpretative matter [in response to a discussion on the Nota Bene user list as to whether Nota Bene has “theological” roots [it doesn’t]] . The NB-Orbis-Ibidem integration is so wonderful that it has to classify as a miracle, clearly linking it to theological concerns.”
Herb Rubin — professor of sociology, emeritus, Northern Illinois University
“I am a NB believer and evangelist! . . . I love working in it because of the interface between Orbis, Ibid, and the main processor that makes research so much more productive.”
Professor, New Testament and Early Christianity studies, University of Cape Town
“In a few months, you may be able to advertise us as the first three-generation Nota Bene family [the author’s father also uses Nota Bene]. My son Gabriel is going off to college this fall, planning to major in history and political science. He grew up watching me write, of course, and always thought it weird that I used Nota Bene. (I remember him, at about age 10, asking, ‘What’s that?!!’ incredulously.) But he’s building himself a new desktop computer for college this summer, and has also bought a laptop, thinking about how he’s going to study. So I told him one day, ‘You know, you really ought to get in on Nota Bene from the ground floor of your college education. It’s great for researchers.’ ‘Yeah, why?’ ‘Well look at this. . . .’ And with that I showed him academic style sheets, Ibidem, and Orbis, and after only about 10 minutes of watching me over my shoulder he was convinced. Right now he’s trying out a copy, working through the tutorials, and so on.”
Gerald Schlabach — professor of moral theology, St. Thomas University
“I look forward to yet another gratifying version of NB. I wonder why my scholarly friends keep on with WP and MSWord when one can create one’s writings far more easily in NB and convert NB files to those formats as needed. Oh well.”
Norman Holland — poet & professor, University of Florida
“For me, through all these years, Nota Bene has been a companion, an intellectually alive, sophisticated, cultivated, literate, sleek, agile companion, that is part of my thinking and working. On many occasions I’ve been required to use other programs temporarily, like Word or WordPerfect, and I’ve always found it painful, coming from Nota Bene. They seem uncouth, illiterate, cumbersome, designed by semi-literate techno-geek geniuses for imagined moronic versions of themselves. They clearly have never written a scholarly book, or compiled a serious bibliography or index, or (heaven forbid) used a foreign language, or had to type an accent.”
Christian Moevs — professor of Italian, University of Notre Dame
“There are many scholars and students that eventually would use this program because it is much easier than Word+Endnote , especially the possibility to use different languages at the same time. So far, I have recommended the program to many scholars here.”
Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
“I have been using NB since version 3 and can’t imagine why anyone would rather use another word processor. Everytime I have to use WP or MSW I am reminded how much I prefer NB. And version 8 is better than ever. Great work!”
Professor, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary
“I have 20 years of note-taking files. It is really liberating. . . . It is extremely user friendly now. It is so much better than Word. . . . I am definitely thrilled with the ability to take notes, and retrieve them. I show the program at Folger’s Library [where the author was a fellow], and people are impressed.”
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Florida Atlantic University
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