NoteTab lets you open many documents at once and makes them available to you through the tab bar. You can configure the tab bar to show or hide the extension part of the name. When you choose the "File | New" command, NoteTab automatically creates a name for the new document. You can change the format of this name by editing the field "Options | General | New Name Format".
When you modify a document, its little disk icon in the tab turns red. This visual cue makes it easy to identify documents that need saving if you want to preserve the changes. When you save the document, its disk icon becomes gray again.
You will find many useful commands in the Modify menu that help you process your text. These commands make it easy to join or split lines, sort lines, indent or unindent lines, change alignment and character case, insert bullets or line numbers, strip HTML tags or convert text to HTML, etc.
NoteTab offers many features and tools to help you write documents efficiently. If used properly, the Editor Clipbook is probably the feature that will save you the most time. It lets you store and reuse boilerplate text, which can be anything from a single character to complete multi-megabyte documents. Document templates are another time-saving feature. A template is a special kind of document that provides content for shaping a new document. You can use several templates to create many common types of documents such as letters, Web pages, etc.
Use the "Tools | Text Statistics" command to get a detailed count of the whole document or highlighted text. The dialog box will indicate how many characters and words it found and by clicking on the More button, you get the count for individual words.
People often organize their information/notes in individual documents. If you have many such documents, they can become hard to manage and occupy more space than necessary on your disk. Outline documents are the ideal solution in this case. They make it really easy to organize your information in a structured format. You can copy the content of each file under its own Outline heading. The result is a single document containing all your notes organized into clear and easily accessible categories.
NoteTab lets you view two documents side-by-side by using the "Document | Second Window" command (the active document is placed in the right window). With NoteTab Std, you can drag-and-drop highlighted text between the two windows.
You can customize the editor's main shortcut menu by choosing the commands you find most useful from the "Options | Shortcut Menu" list box. Your important commands will be just a mouse-click away. See the topic on Keyboard Shortcuts for a detailed list of keys you can use to speed up your work.