Contents
General Concepts
Jotz Folder
Features
Importing Classic Notepads
"How Do I ..."
Create a new Pad
Searching
Jotz has two varieties of search -- a one-result-at-a-time "original" search roughly comparable to the find facility in the Classic Note Pad and a recently introduced all-results-at-once extra-crispy "Browser Style" search.\
The Browser Style search is available in the Pad menu, the Find menu, by pressing command+option+B, and via the MultiButtons.
The original Find is available via the Find menu, the MultiButtons and (for single-pad use) directly on the Pad window in Full Featured Mode.
Frankly the Browser Style search is a lot better than the original search design, and I recommend using the Browser Style search for everything except searching inside a single note, which the Browser Style Search doesn't yet do.
If you have ever used Google or any other Web search engine, the Browser Style search should look eerily familiar:
Nearly everything you might need to know about it, you already know from using other search engines. Just type the search term into the obvious spot, press Return or click the magnifying glass button, and you're off to the races.
The popup menu at left selects between Current Pad, Open Pads and All Pads search. All Pads search searchs all Pads in the Jotz folder, no matter how deeply buried in nested subfolders.
Unlike web search engines, this search is not based on a pre-defined index -- it is a brute-force case-insensitive real-time threaded search of the full text (and title) of every Note.
Despite that, it is remarkably quick -- my test set of 20 pads containing hundreds of long notes is completely searched in about 4 seconds on a G4/450 and about 7 seconds on an original iBook 300. There are few X-capable Macs slower than an original iBook.
(Believe me, I know -- most of the Browser Search code was written on that iBook during Thanksgiving at my wife's sister's house in another state. They were remarkably tolerant of my disappearances into the World Of Code.)
Also unlike Web search engines, the Jotz Browser Style search remembers the last 12 search terms that you use, and also remembers the last search results.
The Original "Note Pad Style" search that Jotz shipped with is available either on the Pad at the top, or in the separate Find Panel:
Do yourself a favor. click the little red close button on this window and use the Browser Style search.
Really.