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Academic Writing, Research, and Reference Management
THE ONLY INTEGRATED RESEARCH & WRITING ENVIRONMENT FOR SCHOLARS
Nota Bene combines powerful document and source management tools with unique data capture, retrieval, and presentation, all in one integrated environment designed for academic work — to spark your imagination.
Advanced writing tools designed for long-form scholarly work (sophisticated footnoting, style manuals, page indexes, more).
Enhanced bibliographic management and citation system — with powerful citation capture tools.
Expansive retrieval and display of everything you’ve collected — all presented almost magically.
Capture anything you encounter on the web (including citation data) in both structured and unstructured form.
The Nota Bene System
Unlike disparate or “add-on” tools, Nota Bene’s applications are all native, connecting writing, sourcing, notes, and searches (on-line and local) into a single organic workflow that enhances — and simplifies — research, writing, and lecture preparation.
Nota Bene gives you access to all the data that matters to you—up to millions of texts gathered over the course of your career—as you browse the web, explore texts given you by colleagues, or write manuscripts of your own. Your data trove is:
Discoverable with either simple (just double click a word in your document) or highly sophisticated multi-term (with Boolean [AND, OR, and NOT] operators, wildcards, synonyms, and more) searches
Aware of meaningful semantic units/arguments (e.g., paragraphs, not just terms scattered throughout sources)
Focused on the specific texts that matter to your research—your reading notes, text captured from the web, all your previous manuscripts—or everything, all at once
Seen in full context, with full automatic sourcing—no plagiarizing—and rule-compliant dynamic citation/reference formatting
Displayed in a keyword-in-context concordance-style view that allows comparative reading of texts from disparate sources
Organized, as needed, by source, date, and “intensity” of match
Ready to be supplemented (in Nota Bene’s unique note-taking system) with your reflections, criticisms, commentary
A single mouse click is all it takes to bring any captured text (or your own commentary or comments) into your active document, with every (automatically sourced) text being properly attributed, automatically, building an ever expanding knowledge base.
It’s a tool designed for close, careful reading, so you can see things that nobody else does.
Nota Bene’s powerful applications follow the natural arc of your research workflow.
Nota Bene’s data magnet/web-data parser:
Nota Bene’s genre-defying data magnet gathers everything—texts and citations—you need.
Everything you capture becomes a building block for your use, expansion, and reflection:
Captured texts are ready for Nota Bene’s enhanced note-taking options that link everything together.
Nota Bene’s powerful search engine gives you the tools you need to explore new research pathways:
Sources and commentary are instantly searchable, the results elegantly presented, so that you can see what others missed.
Your documents are formatted and structured, precisely and automatically.
Simply select the desired style:
And choose from the supported document types:
Nota Bene will handle everything automatically:
With powerful and elegant document structuring (and restructuring):
Nota Bene effortlessly adheres to academic standards in the humanities and social sciences.
Page-layout and citation style can be changed to a different style with just a few keystrokes (even in-text citations to note style, and back again), all automatically, instantly (in seconds!), perfectly formatted, consistent with academic disciplines and publishers’ needs, without any user intervention required.
It’s never been easier to submit an article to a different journal requiring a different layout or citation style.
Everything—layout, numbering system, citation style—can be changed, in seconds, if needed!
Editors invariably take note of the smooth collaboration with Nota Bene authors.
They won’t need to spend even a minute checking for consistent citation format, with everything handled flawlessly—first (full form) vs. subsequent shortened form, never out of order, ibid., op. cit., etc., as required by style.
(How many manuscripts have you seen, even from university presses, where shortened subsequent forms actually precede the fuller form, because no adjustment was made after a last-minute edit? That will never happen with Nota Bene—contextualization is automatic as citations are added, deleted, and moved.)
Everything—headings (automatically numbered if required), block indented regions, notes (beginning on the page on which they were cited, and properly wrapped as necessary)—is handled reliably, saving countless hours of (often frustrating!) editorial work.
Editorial work is made effortless, Nota Bene already having taken care of the details, making your editors (and you!) happy.
Seamless and efficient collaboration among academics and publishers is at the heart of the Nota Bene vision.
Nota Bene documents are perfectly exported to DOCX format to send to collaborators and publishers. No academic collaborator and no publisher will be required to make formatting changes (document structure, including proper citation contextualization, is automatic and reliable).
And once the page proofs are returned, Nota Bene’s extensive indexing options (more powerful than you will find anywhere else) save countless hours in the tedious task of preparing the manuscript index. (Or indexes. Nota Bene supports any number of indexes—general, subject, authors [ancient and/or modern], without limit.)
Rich export options make sharing your work with others, and getting it published, effortless.
It works both ways—DOCX files are precisely imported AND enhanced with Nota Bene’s smart document structures not available in DOCX:
Nota Bene automatically detects an opened DOCX research document and guides the user through every section, suggesting heading level and corresponding body (and allowing for overrides).
Citations are faithfully converted, with references entered through Zotero simultaneously captured as native Nota Bene bibliographic records to allow subsequent fully automatic contextualization!
Even unstructured reference lists (in supported styles) can be converted into structured Nota Bene records
And all track-change markups and comments in documents returned from editors can be seamlessly reincorporated into your smarter original Nota Bene version, before being sent back in DOCX format.
Bring over everything you’ve already written, or been given by colleagues, while unlocking new research powers.
And when your texts are sophisticated enough that they pose a challenge even for your publisher, Nota Bene’s unique ability to create camera-ready copy of the most complex documents might mean the difference between abandoning your project (as originally conceived) and having it published (and without breaking the bank).
So there’s no reason to despair if you are working on a commentary on a medieval manuscript, with three independent sets of footnotes (each with distinct separator, numbering system, and format styles, as desired, for textual variants, commentary, and the like, properly and precisely formatted by Nota Bene at the bottom of each page), unparalleled cross-referencing options, and unique linguistic accent/modifiers found nowhere else in the texts.
Nota Bene’s powerful research and formatting options let you create the text, and then produce fine-tuned camera-ready PDF output, making it possible for your life’s work to see the light of day.
Nota Bene lets you create—publish!— complex critical texts that even publishers find daunting, ensuring that the world can see your work.
Nota Bene has long served scholars who need control, reliability, and depth beyond ordinary word processing tools.
See how Nota Bene can support your writing, research, and reference workflow.
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