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In August 2019, Nota Bene was reviewed by Nathan Parker as the "Back to School App Spotlight" in Ask Woody. This review was based on Nota Bene 12. Mr. Parker says that while Word is sufficient for office uses, Nota Bene's support for Hebrew is better and the program is more reliable for larger complex papers. Nota Bene includes several components, and the full integration of these components in a single application allows the user to organize research and handle writing easily and efficiently. Mr. Parker, who is an IT consultant and a PhD Student, goes on to give an overview of Nota Bene, and a description of the components including Ibidem (citation manager), Orbis ("Google" for your personal documents) and additional add-on modules.
Nota Bene 10, reviewed by Felix Grant in Scientific Computing World, March 25, 2013. The review was based on a late stage beta edition of version 10, which Felix Grant reports that he used for several months without encoutering any problems whatsoever. Mr. Grant gives a very positive review of the Nota Bene suite of programs. “Nota Bene (NB), generally thought of as a word processor, is actually a remarkably complete academic information management environment, with a word processor as its face.” He goes on to describe Orbis (including changes in v10), Ibidem, IbidPlus, Archiva and Lingua. He says that Lingua “provides the best multilingual facilities of any currently available word processor.”
“Nota Bene 7.0b” by Charles A. Anderson, University of Cambridge, published in Trinity Journal 26 (2005): 167-69. This review focuses on the usefulness of Lingua Workstation for seminary students and pastors, pointing out the benefits of working with biblical languages, academic styles, Ibidem (organization of bibliographic data and automatic formatting of citations) and Orbis (instant access to lectures, papers, notes, sermons). Charles Anderson concludes: “For anyone in academics or pastoral ministry, and especially for those at the beginning of such callings, the advantages of Nota Bene — its integration of components, academic-driven design, and possibilities of customization — make it an excellent word processor.”
“Leveraging Competence into Excellence: A Review of Nota Bene 7.0” by
Eckhard J. Schnabel, Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical
Divinity School, Deerfield, IL. (SBL Forum, May 2004). Dr. Schnabel likens Nota Bene to David in his battle with Goliath, and goes on to use
an example of researching and writing a paper on Noah in
biblical and extra-biblical traditions to illustrate the integrated
functionality of Nota Bene, Ibidem and Orbis.
“Review of version 7.0” by David A. Hackett, Associate Professor,
Department of History, University of Texas at El Paso (October 2003). Dr. Hackett summarizes the new features that are introduced in version 7.0, and finds Nota Bene more useful than ever before (“For scholarly writing Ibidem and Orbis are absolutely essential”).
“Nota Bene for Windows Review” by Mark D. Szuchman, Professor of History at Florida International University (Journal of the Association for History and Computing, November 2000). Dr. Szuchman discusses the many benefits of the Nota Bene Workstations, focusing on the capabilities offered by the tight integration of word processing, bibliographic database management, and note retrieval.
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