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No more unnecessary printing! - hand written annotations directly to your Word® documents with enotate® Word...

 

..and Excel® spreadsheets with enotate Excel®

 

Bring new dynamics to your PowerPoint® presentation with enotate PowerPoint® Presenter™

 

Annotate photos and graphics with enotate Imager on your PC and Apple Mac.

 

Exchange 'real time' annotation over the Internet with webnotate™

 

Control your hand written annotation at a distance with enotate Wireless

 

enotate Mobile can take mobile messaging into a new dimension - reply to text messages with a short hand written note or send a quick sketch

 

enopad™ ergonomics meets intuitiveness, the perfect touchscreen-enabled graphics pad for mark ups, notes and sketches

 
Software Development Kit - for software development houses who want to add annotations and mark-up features to new and existing applications.

Frequently Asked Questions

With what handheld devices does enotate® work?
enotate works with the following Palm® Connected Organizers:

  • Palm® Pilot 1000/5000
  • Palm® Pilot Professional
  • Palm® III, IIIc, IIIe, IIIx, IIIxe
  • Palm® V, Vx
  • Palm® VII,
  • Palm® m100,
  • Palm® m500, m505 (serial connection only)
  • Handspring Visor, Visor Deluxe, Visor Prism, Visor Platinum
  • IBM WorkPad
  • TRGpro
  • Sony Clie (serial connection only)
  • Pocket PC's - for iPaq, HP Jornada and Casio Cassiopeia (all Windows CE 3.0) there is a free Beta version of enotate available for download.

Does enotate support Bluetooth?
 Yes. enotate runs on Sunderland Technologies' WAVEclip Bluetooth products for Palm.

Does enotate support Wireless Ethernet (802.11b)?
 Yes, there is a beta version available of enotate running on 802.11b on the Compaq iPAQ. Interested parties should contact us on info@informal.com

Does enotate run over the Internet?
 Yes, there is a beta version available of the web-based version, Webnotate. With Webnotate multiple users around the world can participate in real-time, shared, collaborative document annotation and sharing. Interested parties should contact us on info@informal.com

Does enotate run on Palm m500 & m505?
 Yes, using a serial cable only. enotate does not currently run over the newer Palm USB drivers included with the m50x. Please check back for more details on support for new-style USB support in the future.

Does enotate support USB?
 Yes, although the Palm® USB adapter and the Handspring Visor are not interchangeable - they use different USB drivers. For Windows 2000 and the Palm® serial to USB adapter you need to download an update (only for enotate 1.20).

Also, enotate does not currently support the later USB drivers from Palm for the m500, m505, and the Sony Clie.

With what applications does enotate work?
 enotate currently offers integrated support for Microsoft Word™ 97 and 2000, PowerPoint™ 97 and 2000, and Excel™ 2000. We do not support Microsoft ® Office XP at present.

In addition, enotate includes its own stand-alone PC application into which you can import a variety of text and graphic images, such as Windows .dib and .bmp files, TIFF .tif files, and JPEG .jpg files.

With the enotate stand-alone PC application you can annotate photos, send email with annotations, create sketches, send marked up files to friends and co-workers, even if they are not enotate users themselves, and more.

What operating systems are supported?
 enotate operates with PCs running Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows ME and Windows XP. Limited support is available for Windows 95 but the performance may be a bit slower.

Must I uninstall an earlier version of enotate when upgrading to a newer version?
 Yes. Ensure that you uninstall any previous desktop installation of enotate (using Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Remove) and always delete the old Palm® organizer application (enotate.prc: Applications, Menu, Delete, enotate, delete).

What must I do if I upgrade Office?
 When you change the version of Office, PowerPoint™, or Word™, (or change the version of your OS), you must reinstall the enotate add-ins. The Office add-ins add menus to Word™, Excel™ and PowerPoint™ that allow you to use enotate with these applications. When you first install enotate the add-ins will be installed automatically if the installer finds any of those applications on your PC.

If you have installed Office after you installed enotate, or have upgraded your version of Office, then you will need to install the add-ins.

You will need to launch the enotate installer to install the add-ins. When the installer launches it will offer you choice of a Full Installation and Install add-ins Only. Select the Install add-ins Only radio button, and then click on the Next button. When the add-ins have been installed you will see the Add-ins Installed Successfully dialog box. click on the Finish button to finish the installation

How do Undo, Redo, Clear Screen and Clear enotations work?
 The way the Edit commands work depends upon the edit characteristics of the application in which you are working.

  • The enotate PC application, for example, considers each continuous pen movement as one "edit". So "Undo" and "Redo" work on the last "edit". If it takes you 2 pen strokes to form an upper case "A", then it will take 2 "Undo" commands to remove the "A" from your document.
  • In Word™, enotate edits are graphic elements. It may take from 2 to 5 "Undo" commands to remove an edit. To clear all enotate edits, from the Word™ menu bar select "enotate.""Clear annotations" to remove them all, and "Undo" from the menu bar to restore them.
  • In PowerPoint™, "Undo"might undo more than just the last edit. In some cases, all of the edits on the slide are removed, and sometimes edits on some or all of the other slides are also removed. This is related to the type of input. If you have done text changes to the PowerPoint™ document, then only those enotate edits made after the text changes are removed on an "Undo."A "Redo" will restore all of the removed edits.
  • In PowerPoint™, "Clear Annotations" and "Clear Screen" both work on a per-slide basis. "Undo" will restore the cleared slide.

What does the "Layers" command do?
 enotate recognizes the difference between the text an/or graphic information in the document (the "background") and the edits made from your Palm® organizer via enotate (the "foreground").

In the enotate PC application, you can cause the edit command "Clear Screen" plus "Cut" and "Copy" to apply only to the foreground, only to the background, or to both foreground and background. You can select which Layer you want to work with from the enotate PC application menu bar or from the Palm® organizer menu options.

(Note:  Layers are supported only in the enotate PC application, not in Word™ or PowerPoint™. "Clear Screen" in Word™ and PowerPoint™ applies only to the Foreground Layer regardless of the selected "Layer" setting.)

If I can annotate in real time on the PC, must the Palm® be sitting in the cradle?
 There are actually 3 current options and a 4th on the way.

The first is that you can just pick up the Palm®, (cradle and all)- which is what we usually do - not a big deal at all really.

Secondly, you can write with it at an angle and that is easy for some quick annotations.

Thirdly, you can purchase a simple cable connection which is great for travel with your Palm® and eliminates the cradle.

Fourth - we're all on the brink of wireless - and we're looking forward to several solutions including Ricochet/OmniSky partnership as well as Bluetooth. Keep in mind that enotate is not a "Palm®" software, but a platform independent product designed for the PC. That means that whatever advances are made in handheld devices, enotate will move right along with those advances.