NOTA BENE + IBIDEM + ORBIS
A REVOLUTIONARY INFORMATION-PROCESSING SYSTEM
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DO IT JUST ONCE IN YOUR CAREER (FOR EVERY BOOK OR ARTICLE YOU READ)
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1. Create a bibliographic record
2. Type in your notes (verbatim quotes, summaries, arguments) related to this work
If something would need to be attributed if it were later used in a paper, simply add the page number
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THE REST IS VIRTUALLY EFFORTLESS
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1. Search those note-taking files (along with any of your other work) using Orbis
2. Discover new relationships as Orbis brings together a life-time of work (your reading
notes, articles, book-length manuscripts, material downloaded from the web, etc.)
in an concordance-style table view
3. View the paragraph or other selected conceptual unit, with or without its context
4. Retrieve the quotation, argument, summary directly into your file—with a single keystroke!
5. Watch as NB simultaneously inserts the correct (and correctly formatted) citation
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OR TRY THIS . . .
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1. Look up all works by an author, instantly
Simply click on the author’s name in your text—or press a single keystroke (no need to re-type anything)
2. Cite it—and let Ibidem handle all the formatting details
Ibidem handles subsequent citations—as shortened forms, ibid.’s, op. cit.’s, etc.—automatically
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BUT DON’T STOP THERE
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1. Create links to web pages, files from other programs, or to other Nota Bene files (or
within the current file)
2. Go there with a double click
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PUT IT ALL TOGETHER. YOUR WORK. YOUR RESEARCH. YOUR CAREER.
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LISTEN TO YOUR COLLEAGUES . . .
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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