[DM-MUG] Fwd: [MacLaw] Notebook: Good program for criminal defense use

Victoria L. Herring dmmug@dmmug.org
Sat, 30 Apr 2005 05:35:22 -0500


>I got a 17" laptop at the 2004 MacWorld in SF and have been slowly
>converting to it. Very useful for music (I'm a folk/blues dj on the
>radio once a week and have some 4000+ tunes on the computer) and photos
>(evidence and personal - I have some 4000+ photos on the computer, and
>am using it for DVDs of police videos of clients of mine etc) but the
>basic use - that of word processer and case management - had not made
>much progress until at MacWorld 2005 in SF when I picked up Notebook
>from Circus Ponies.  As a word processor it is basic but useable, but as
>a tool for organizing the  documents generated in the case, it is
>superb. There is an update which I have yet to pick up - and I hope but
>doubt that it will have a pleading paper template in it - but its
>organizing metaphor - a notebook with tabs - makes it incredibly easy to
>have a Case Notes section, To Do, Documents in case,  Notes about
>various motions, client conversations.....and to move between them with
>a click of the mouse.
>
>Anyone else using this? If not, you might want to take a look.
>
>
>ED Denson
>Southern Humboldt County's Easternmost Criminal Defense Attorney
>

I also have NB and have been using it and it is one of the better 
Outliners for the Mac.  Just fyi
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