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To Do Drawer
The To Do Drawer is a simple outline drawer that provides hierarchical text-based To Do List. The To Do Drawer is an application-wide data store -- no matter which pad you open the drawer from, it's the same drawer.
All data entered into the Drawer is saved automatically.
The To Do drawer uses the same Disclosure Triangle logic as List Views do in the Finder, with the addition of a "+" control on each item that adds a sub-item to that item., and checkboxes that display task completion information.
In the example above, clicking the "+"
next to Start On Reference Drawer would add a
subtask to that at the same level as
Arrow
Controls in, while
clicking the "+" button above the outline area would add a
new top-level task to the end of list.
Clicking the checkbox on a single task marks it as complete (or whatever you want it to mean). Clicking the checkbox on a complex task that contains subtasks expands the collapsed subtasks.
When a compound task is partially complete, its checkbox is partially filled in direct proportion to how complete the task is. In the example above, you can see that at the time of this screenshot, the Start On Reference Drawer was half complete, while the Solve All Problems Of World task had quite a ways to go. Still does, I'm afraid.
For keyboard-intensive users, there is a help panel available by clicking the ? button. This help panel provides numerous keyboard shortcuts that work in both the To Do and Reference outline drawers. Indeed about the only thing that you can't do with a keyboard shortcut in these drawers is open the keyboard shortcut help panel.
One basic shortcut is that pressing Enter or Return generally does what you would expect -- if you are editing an item, it ends that edit and creates a new item ready for input. If you have merely selected an item, pressing return or enter makes it editable. Combine those shortcuts with the arrow keys and you have pretty complete keyboard navigation without needing to learn much.
If you delete the entire contents of an item that doesn't contain other items, it will be automatically deleted when you leave the item.
The To Do Drawer has Undo for most operations that actually change the contents of the drawer.
Items can be deleted from the Drawer by selecting them and pressing the delete button, or by dragging them to the Trash.
The To Do Drawer stores your information in an XML file inside the Jotz folder.
The contents of the To Do Drawer is not searched by any of Jotz's search facilities.