Avoid Naming Pear Note Files
If you create a lot of documents, coming up with a name for them can sometimes be a hassle. This is especially true now that search is becoming a more prevalent way to find documents. Pear Note provides a way to have the application automatically generate a filename so you can avoid this hassle. To use this:
- Open Saving under Pear Note's preferences.
- Select a default save location.
- Select a default save name template (Pear Note's help documents all the fields that can be automatically filled in).
- Check the box stating that Command-S saves without prompting.
- If you decide you want to name a particular note later, just use Save As... instead.
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TidBITS#801/17-Oct-05
Last week brought an abundance of announcements, including Apple's record financial results and release of a video-enabled iPod, a new iMac with an iSight camera built-in, and iTunes 6 with TV shows for sale in the iTMS. Not entirely overshadowed was Palm's release of a pair of Palm handhelds, the Z22 and TX. Microsoft was also busy, settling a lawsuit with RealNetworks and announcing plans to make its instant messaging network interoperable with Yahoo's. Last, though not least, James Thomson shipped the slick calculator utility PCalc 3, and we published "Take Control of Permissions in Mac OS X."
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