The Graphics Muse is pleased to announce the first beta release of XNotesPlus V3.6, a personal information manager (PIM) for Linux and Unix systems with full featured support for PalmOS based devices.

Houston, Texas (Feb 27, 2004) -- Michael J. Hammel, the Graphics Muse, is pleased to announce the release of XNotesPlus V3.6.0, a Personal Information Manager for the Linux and Unix desktop.

XNotesPlus includes support for all major features of PalmOS based handheld devices 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 9 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 includes the following new features:

• A builtin, fully featured Calendar Manager (replacing the old external dependency on ical)
• Extensive updates to the Todo Manager
• Compile time support for CUPS printers
• Improved HTML documentation, utilizing gnome-moz-remote to choose your browser.
• Many bug fixes
• Improved theme with polished appearance

Users of older versions are encouraged to upgrade to this release. The 3.6 version can install directly over the 3.5.2 version without any conflicts.
XNotesPlus Web site: http://www.graphics-muse.org/xnotes/xnotes.html
Downloads: http://www.graphics-muse.org/source/XNotesPlus/