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• Nota Bene Nota Bene 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
  
• 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)
  

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  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.
  

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  *  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
• Orbis Orbis is the research core of Nota Bene, providing access to literally hundreds of thousands of documents 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 is an optional module that lets you build Ibidem databases by:
  1. Capturing web citations
   (e.g., from JStor &
   Project Muse)
  2. Searching hundreds of
   on-line libraries
  3. Retrieving bibliographic
   data for ISBN #'s
  4. Converting formatted
   electronic bibliographies
• Coming Soon! A new Archiva module can capture text from virtually every web page, and download a searchable version of the page for inclusion in an Orbis knowledge base
• 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