NoteShare lets you organize your notes in one location as well as share those notes with other users of NoteShare, as long as they know your IP address. The program lets you create multiple notebooks. You get to decide which ones of those are shared and which are for personal use.
The installation is done through double clicking the installation file within the package. The program can be found in your applications folder. During your first run, it will ask you for a license information. There are three options - quit, demo license, and regular license. I found that this process is a little bogus and poorly designed. When you hit the demo license, a new webpage opens up, where you are asked to download a trial version of the software (BUT I JUST DID). You ought to hit the download button to get to a registration page, that will use your information to generate a trial key. It will be in your e-mail within minutes. Meanwhile, don't forget to hit cancel the download if you are doing this registration from within the program's first run.
When you input the license, a somewhat awkward program shows up on your desktop. It is comprised from what I am guessing a large work area and a notebook. You can edit the title of your notebook, open it up and see the contents. You can create indices of your pages, but when you double click your newly created index, the program wants you to rename it. The key here is to hit the bullet button right next to that particular index.
The notes themselves are typed on a lined sheet. Each entry is perfectly fitted on the lines, therefore there is no way for you to customize your font size.
The program itself is a sharing server. If you want to share a notebook, you need to tell your colleague or a friend your IP address. Subsequently, if you are behind a gateway, sharing your notes will be much complicated than it was designed! Further, I did not find the way to set the usernames and passwords for sharing, which could be exploited by bad people.
Overall, for 150 bucks, I would expect a lot more from this software than it is. If you need a way to organize your notes, then you should try it and see if it fits your needs and your character.
v3.0
• Minor functionality and UI issues found since version 3.0.6 were fixed
• Full support for App Sandboxing in OS X Lion and later.
• RTF, text, tab, pdf, doc, and docx files can now be imported as an outline or a single entry.
• Images can be auto-scaled to fit the width of an entry.
• An image's scaling can be propagated to all images on the page, section, or notebook.
• Favorites from the Special Characters pallet are now available from the Edit menu.
• Added a new "Download" contextual menu item for attachments in remote notebooks.
• Find and Replace now operates on page and section titles in addition to entry contents.
• "docx" format files can now be imported.
• RTF, text, tab, pdf, doc, and docx files can now be imported as an outline or a single entry.
• Page marks are now displayed in Libraries, and can be dragged into a Library.
• Finder aliases to notebooks are now recognized and included in Libraries.
• Added Strikethrough to Format->Font menu and editor contextual menu.
• Improved handling of superscripts on ruled pages.
• "Copy Entry URL" and "Copy Page URL" menu items were added to the Sharing menu.
• Newly created Clipping and Search services are now enabled by default.
• New preferences allow selection of defaults for showing tags and controls on a page.
• The Share->Email menu now includes an option to email a page as a PDF attachment.
• The default entry on a newly-created page is now automatically in edit mode.
• Clicking below the last entry now puts the text cursor at the end of the last entry.
• Default shortcuts for "Font->Bigger" and "Font->Smaller" are now the OS X standard.
• Fixed issue causing a de-capitalized word to be removed from the index.
• The "Move Highlighted" option in Highlight & Summarize is now fully undoable.
• Changes to the default fonts for a remote notebook are now saved in the owner's copy.
• Fixed an issue causing links to documentation notebooks not to work.
• Fixed display issue with entry selection outlines when the zoom is greater than 100%.
• Entry background color no longer disappears when the cursor becomes active in the entry.
• Text tables exported to Web Notebooks now better reflect user-adjusted column widths.
• Nested text tables are now correctly exported to Web Notebooks.
• Removed problematic "--" from the comments of some NTML exported files.
• Favorite Style keyboard shortcuts assigned by a user are now preserved after restarting.
• Favorite styles now properly preserve underline settings.
• Safari images and Mail attachments are now correctly clipped using clipping services.
• Entry creation date is no longer reset when copying and pasting entries.
• Fixed some issues setting the background image for pages in remote notebooks.
• Fixed issue with web notebooks viewed in IE9 on Windows 7.
• Underlines in styled text are now reproduced in web notebooks.
• Fixed issue with display of multiple-page PDF attachments.
• Fixed issue causing the Hyperlink toolbar button to not work.
• Saving a local copy of a remote notebook no longer fails if the cover page was not viewed.
• Fixed issue causing display problems when toggling the Toolbar while the Ruler is visible.
• Column background color now changes after changing page background in Preferences.
• Fixed issues caused by non-image attachments are included in To Do page entries.
• Fixed issues caused by referencing attachments from the index section.
• Font->Underline command now works on multiple entry selections.
