Contents
General Concepts
Jotz Folder
Features
Importing Classic Notepads
"How Do I ..."
Create a new Pad
Organizing Notes
The primary organizational tool in Jotz is the Shuffle Drawer, available from the Pad menu and via the MultiButtons,
Inside the Shuffle Drawer you can drag notes around to reorder them in the Pad, or drag notes from one Pad to another. You can select and drag sequential and discontinuous selections of notes. You can edit a note title by double-clicking it in the drawer (or by clicking in either of the note-title displays in the Pad).
If you select a note title in the Shuffle Drawer, the Pad jumps to the selected Note. If you select more than one note in the drawer, the first item in the selection is displayed in the Pad.
This linkage is one-way only -- if you select a note in the Pad using the Pad navigation controls, that does not change the Shuffle Drawer selection.
This is an intentional feature that allows you to examine the contents of a selected set of notes without altering the scope of the selection in the drawer. This is an excellent idea before, say, pressing the Delete button.
When dragging between Pads, you can drag a note to either the destination Pad's shuffle-drawer, or to the Pads note text area. In either case the note is inserted into the Pad.
To drag note contents into a note rather than as a note, select the text of the note and drag it as text into the destination note.
If you are not familiar with text dragging in OS-X, please read this.
The shuffle drawer also has facilities for sorting and searching.
Sorting
Each note has 3 keyword/attribute fields and a category field in addition to the title field, and notes can be sorted on any combination of these, along with the creation/modification dates and the note length.
Searching
If you type text into the Find field in the shuffle drawer, the visible list will be reduced as you type to those notes that contain the typed text in the note body, title, keywords or category.
The resulting vlsible list is a fully functional shuffle-list -- you can drag to/from it, etc. You can also sort it with the Shuffle-drawer sort operations. If you have a Pad that has gotten "out of control", and you want to break it up into some different Pads, you can use this find feature to create a topic-subset of the Pad, and then use the Export Selection As New Pad command in the Pad menu to convert your selection to a new Pad.