Houston, Texas (Dec 4, 2001) -- Michael J. Hammel, the Graphics Muse, is pleased to announce the first beta release of version 3.5.0 of XNotesPlus, a Personal Information Manager for the Linux and Unix desktop.

XNotesPlus includes support for all major features on the Palm Pilot, including Memos, Todo Lists, the Address Book and Calendaring. All data from each feature can be downloaded from the Pilot, edited within XNotesPlus and uploaded back to the Pilot. Additionally, backups and restores of a Pilot PDA can be managed from within XNotesPlus.

XNotesPlus is available in both source and Red Hat Linux 7.0 dynamically built binary distributions.

XNotesPlus full featured note system includes audio alarms, color coded projects, date and calendar inserts, text search / export / import / spell checking, and integration with the XNotesPlus Address Manager to email notes to other users.

The Address Manager also includes an integrated envelope printer for various sized envelopes.

This release of XNotesPlus is a beta for the new version 3.5 and includes a new spell checking facility for individual xnotes and a graphical installer.  More features and updates are expected for this release.  Users of older versions are encouraged to try this release but only using experimental data.  The spell checker, in particular, has questionable stability.

Because of the addition of complete Pilot integration and vast stability improvements, XNotesPlus has reached a new phase in development. As of the 3.4 release, XNotesPlus has become Shareware. Users are encouraged to pay $10 or more if they find the program useful in order to continue development of the application. Payments can be made via the Web site using PayPal.

XNotesPlus Web site: http://www.graphics-muse.org/xnotes/xnotes.html
Downloads:  http://www.graphics-muse.org/source/XNotesPlus/