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TopTenREVIEWS - Silver Award - Awarded for excellence in design, useability and feature set

Earning the “TopTenREVIEWS Silver Award,” Nutrinote is a Nutrition Software program that never loses focus of the nutrition at hand, providing details down to the daily percentage of zinc. Whether you are looking for a tool to plan, record and manage your diet on a daily basis, tools to help you map and assess progress towards dietary goals or features to help address special dietary needs like diabetes, Celiac disease or others, Nutrinote offers all of these and more.

While Nutrinote lacks the interface design polishes and ease of use of top-rated DietMaster 2100, it does maintain a degree of simplicity and a strong feature-set to make up for most of its design deficiencies. Moreover, NutriNote, in many ways more dynamic, providing crucial user input for nutritional data and general nutritional info that requires software updates or comes at additional costs for other software programs.

Some of Nutrinote's standout features include:

Customized Goals and User Settings

One size does not fit all. Fortunately, Nutrinote contains built-in features that automatically adjust to suit both the user’s health indicators (BMI, etc.) and personal dietary and fitness goals. Users no longer have to perform additional guesswork to apply the dietary information to themselves and, moreover, its impact on the individual’s health: Nutrinote already does that for you.

Long Term and Short Term Management

View by day, week, month or even year. Nutrinote gives users as broad or specific a portrait of their health as they need. Best of all, with auto-generated charts and graphs, users can view their dietary and health data in a quick and simple fashion.

Intuitive Recipe and Nutrition Search Features

Though several programs offer more recipes than Nutrinote, few provide the search and filter tools necessary to find the correct food item or recipe, and even fewer provide the tools to add new food items and recipes with complete dietary information. With Nutrinote, having to settle for items that come “close enough” to the ones you’ve actually consumed never has to happen again.

Substance and Simplicity

Many Nutrition Software programs offer plenty of filler without providing an equal amount of substance. The filler generally amounts to software components that pointlessly take up disc space, or reference materials that are difficult to access or outdated. Fortunately, with Nutrinote, the disc space burden is eased substantially, with all tools and features having tab functionality for easy reference and quick access without the unnecessary clutter.

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General Nutrition Features:   Excellent

Nutrinote offers most features included by other Nutrition Software manufacturers, but manages to break the mold by addressing other health indicators. As opposed to simply counting calories or logging food consumption, Nutrinote also provides users with an interface for recording mood and inputting more quantifiable general health indicators.

Though its food and recipe database isn’t as robust as some, few Nutrition Software programs include as much dietary information as Nutrinote. And, if and when you are unable to find a recipe in the database, Nutrinote offers an “add recipe” feature that allows you to put in all the necessary information, from the total calories to the daily percentage of zinc. With so many nutritional details, it is no wonder that Nutrinote has been a powerful tool for users with special diets.

Most Nutrition Software programs offer graphs or charts that express their dietary data, but few can do so with as many user customizations as Nutrinote. Whether you want to chart your progress over the month, overview your caloric consumption by meal or hour, or even look back on an entire year, Nutrinote allows you to do so.

Ease of Use:   Excellent

One of Nutrinote’s greatest strengths lies in its ease of use, which is due in large part to its simplicity. With intuitive features, step-by-step direction for first-time users and streamlined, straightforward planning and recording features, setting goals, recording diet and managing health are considerably simplified.

Help/Support:   Excellent

One area of Nutrinote that remains underdeveloped is its help and support sections. While the program is simple, straight-forward and includes many built-in help features including a help tab, there are few additional resources, such as community forums, FAQ sections, online PDF manuals and guides and other resources. And, aside from an email address to a general company account, there is no contact information available for accelerated help and technical support. But, even through regular and heavy use, no problems emerged that weren’t addressed through the help tab features.

Summary:  

Nutrinote is deceptively simple, offering easy to use tools and intuitive features that can absorb highly detailed nutritional information and compose it into charts, graphs and other referential resources easily. While it still lacks many of the features available in abundance in products like Dietmaster 2100, Nutrinote is still an excellent Nutrition Software program for both dieters and those with special dietary needs.

 
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Nutrinote 2010 Premium

Publisher: nutriworx Juergen Abeln
Version: 2010 Premium
Excellent
Overall Rating
Excellent
General Nutrition Features
Excellent
Diet Management
Excellent
Ease of Use
Very Good
Help/Support
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