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Pad You need to know: Jotz is a note-pad, so its basic document type is the Pad. When you run Jotz for the first time, it will create an empty, default pad called Jotz Notes. You can use this pad, and/or create new Pads of your own. Each Jotz Pad contains an unlimited number of Notes, similar to the pages in a physical notepad. Each Note is a full Rich Text document capable of supporting fonts, styles, colors, images and attachments. A pad has a minimum of one note -- if you delete the only note in a pad, Jotz will create a new, empty note to replace it. You might find interesting: While each Pad appears in the Finder as a file, it is actually a File Package, a special kind of Macintosh folder that acts like a file. Inside each Pad package are some Jotz data files and separate RTFD files for each Note. The name of each Note file is its note title. Because the note titles are also filenames, Jotz note titles have to conform to the restrictions for OS-X filenames -- no ":" or "/" characters allowed. Jotz automatically converts filename-illegal characters into hyphens, so you don't have to worry about it. If you control-click on any file package, you get a contextual menu that includes the command "Show Package Contents". This command will open the package in the Finder just like a folder. Because each Jotz note is actually a RTFD file, individual notes can be dragged from inside the Pad and opened with any RTFD-capable application, such as TextEdit. Note that RTFD files are also File Packages, containing a file TXT.rtf that contains the Rich Text contents of the file, and separate files containing any pictures or attachments included in the file. Additionally, Jotz note files contain some data used by Jotz but ignored by other RTFD-capable applications. The Jotz application is also a special variant of File Package called a Bundle. Jotz tries to not impose any particular organization scheme on you -- it isn't a "DayRunner" or other highly structured organizer. It is as flexible and open-ended as the paper notepad that it is modeled after. You provide all the content and meaning, and Jotz provides a robust and flexible storage system. This open-ended architecture means that you can start using Jotz immediately -- no need to figure it out. If you can use a paper notepad, you understand Jotz. |