For Users

Phenote and Phenote+ webstart edition

• 1.6-beta4 release: Phenote | Phenote+
• 1.5 stable release: Phenote | Phenote+
• Older releases

You may be prompted to sign a certificate and allow the download. This will take a few minutes the first time you do this.

Phenote+ installer edition

• Platform-specific installers are available for Phenote+ v1.5 atsourceforge or here: MacOS X | Windows | Linux | Unix
1. Download your platform-specific package. (For MacOS, this should self-extract into a disk image. If it doesn't, double-click on the file. You should see an icon for the "drive" that the Phenote+ application is on.
2. Double-click on the Phenote installer icon. This will open up the installer software. You will be asked a few questions, such as the installation location.
3. When its finished installing, you are ready to go! Double-click the Phenote application icon and its ready to run.

Phenote+ v1.6: We will be distributing Phenote+ using the Sourceforge download system. You can now find Phenote betas and releases by visiting their pages.

We will continue to post links to major releases on this website, but you are invited to download the software by directly connecting to the Phenote Sourceforge Project page

Important Message

For version 1.5 we will be introducing a new look and feel that we call the "plus" edition. We will continue to support the old look-and-feel for a couple more versions. So, if you would like to keep using the original Phenote, launch the webstart edition through the link above.

For Developers

Hardware requirements

• 400 Mhz processor or faster.
• 500+ MB RAM
• 200 MB free disk space on your computer
• Internet connection (broadband is best). Required for automatic updates of ontologies and some functions.

Software requirements

• PC running Windows XP; Mac OSX; Linux; Solaris
• Webstart: Internet browser with webstart installed
• Command line: Java 1.5 or later; Ant