MindSpinner

I love smart uses of technology. AquaMinds NoteTaker is like a Moleskine notebook for the Mac, only better, except that it can’t fit in your pocket or your purse, which is why I’m smitten with Moleskines, too. (Windows users should look at Microsoft’s OneNote instead. The look is different, but the concept is similar.) NoteTaker generates as many notebooks as you like. Notebooks are lined or unlined, with sections and pages quickly accessed via a table of contents you can view in an exandable panel to the left of your notebook pages. In your notebooks, you can enter and organize simply everything from A to Z, including text, hyperlinks, images, film and audio clips, and more. There are multiple ways to share your notebooks, including publishing them to the Web.

The applications in education are endless, as are the applications in anybody’s daily life. I have started a notebook for school, a notebook for my friend’s Web project, and I’m going to start a household notebook, too, with all the information I need to keep up with and currently have to scrounge for. If I ever take/find time to write in a serious way, NoteTaker will be my writer’s notebook. My sixteen-year-old son is now an avid NoteTaker fan, and before school starts, my daughter will know how to use it, too. (No doubt I can interest her in learning all about it by showing her how she can create a catalog of all the outfits she’d like to buy, with pictures and links - an appalling but infallible strategy.)