NOTA BENE NEWS July 5, 2023 ANNOUNCING NOTA BENE 14 We are delighted to announce the release of Nota Bene 14 to the Nota Bene community. Nota Bene 14 incorporates novel — not incremental — enhancements across the full range of all of its modules, whether Ibidem, Nota Bene, or the now integrated Archiva, but its highlight is the expansion and radical simplification of its principal research component, Orbis. Orbis — The New Multi-Tasking Nerve Center FULLY AUTOMATIC, WITH INSTANT ACCESS The re-imagined Orbis text-retrieval/idea-lookup engine makes everything you have on your computer immediately accessible to you by automatically creating “textbases” of unstructured data — your hundred most recent files, note-taking files linked to your Ibidem bibliographic database, all the files in the current folder(s), to name just a few — behind the scenes, for instant search and qualitative analysis. It is lightning fast, intervention-free, and always at hand. TINY FOOTPRINT WITH BIG-TIME RESULTS Orbis now also comes in a small footprint popup mode, viewable side-by-side with your open documents, letting you search for items of interest simply by double-clicking a word in your open file. (This tiny Orbis still comes up big — you can also search for phrases, do synonym and Boolean searches, and view the Query Tree, just as with the original Orbis.) And as always, with its lucid keyword-in-context display of matching texts, ideas pop out at you, resulting in “aha moments” at every turn. FIND ANYTHING & LET IT SHAPE YOUR WORK Whether you simply want to locate passages lost in time (in literally hundreds of thousands of files), are engaged in nuanced qualitative text/data analysis, or are interested in delving into downloaded texts or those sent by collaborators, the new Orbis makes it all possible, effortlessly and instantaneously. (Orbis+ is required to search PDF or DOCX files unless they are first converted to text format.) SHARING NEW DISCOVERIES That's why Orbis is called the "idea engine," and why numerous users have written us over the years describing how — by seeing the way words are used, and arguments made, across disparate texts — they came to see things differently, with these discoveriess leading to articles, and then books, outlining these new perspectives to a broader public. RESEARCH & CREATIVE AUTONOMY This is data discovery and text analysis with a difference: No big data-gathering monopolies make suggestions based on what they think your interests are, trying to make you just another purveyor of accepted wisdom. Instead, the focus is on you and your own creativity — the insights you glean, and the patterns that emerge, as you peruse what Orbis brings together for you. Integrated Archiva, Extended Ibidem, & Much More WEB CAPTURE, BIBLIOGRAPHIC INTERCHANGE, CORD-CUTTING INSTALL Although the new Orbis alone makes the new Nota Bene 14 something you simply won't want to miss, you will find multiple new conveniences everywhere in this new release, including built-in web-citation-capture/library-search options (with an integrated Archiva), full bibliographic data interchange (including with Zotero), smart conversion of DOCX files, the ability to install without administrative /IT privileges, and much more. You can read short summaries here, or a fuller description here. SYNERGY THAT ENHANCES YOUR CREATIVITY With Nota Bene 14, every part of the Workstation — writing, citing, taking notes, finding texts, analyzing them — now works together in the most simple and elegant of ways, with one task merging into the next in a newly uninhibited work-flow across the suite's applications. Both popup Orbis, Nota Bene’s imaginative new idea-lookup engine, and the enhanced popup Ibidem are always at your fingertips (dock them, or pop it them), giving you the freedom to do the work that matters to you. “ I can say that I am delighted with NB 14. It's an incredible improvement over previous releases and a real game-changer for me. I hope that users of earlier versions will take the plunge, upgrade, and coincidentally support NB's development. . . . I am honestly amazed at what you've done with NB. Dr. Peter Knupfer Founder and former director of H-NET (Humanities and Social Sciences Online), one of the first humanities listservs, now an independent, non-profit academic space for scholars, teachers, advanced students, and related professionals ” Current customers click here to log-in and upgrade New customers click here to see prices and purchase Steve Siebert Anne Putnam Nota Bene 718-382-1500 www.notabene.com sales@notabene.com technicalsupport@notabene.com