Release 1.0, 07.02.1995 by Thomas Engel (tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org)

1			The ClipNotes

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After all, this is no new application. Stephen Fitzpatrick wrote a little app called Notes.app back in 1992. This is just a remake¼new source, but old idea. I took over what Stephen had started.

The job is quite simple. ClipNotes offers a Service to remember everything that fits into a RTFD document. You can paste directly into the notes window or use the service menu. When the application gets quit, it will simply save all the pastes into a file.
Simple, but quite handy.

What it does

Everybody knows that the Librarian does allow us to store all kinds of clips into his Notebook. But you will end up with a bunch of seperate files that are harder to maintain and recognize when all you want to do is to update some kind of quick ToDo list or that kind of thing. 

ClipNotes stores everything into the ClipNotes.rtfd file which makes it simpler for you to see that is in there. After all it is a good idea to make a link into Librarians Notebook folder so you can benefit from its search and indexing capabilities.

The Package

Version 1.0 comes in a package that includes:

·	ClipNotes.app is a compiled to run on NeXT, Intel, HP and Sparc hardware.

·	An Examples directory containing a maybe useful ClipNote file. Take it as a suggestion of how to organize the notes.

·	Online help...minimal

·	Full sourcecode

·	The documentation and an ASCII version (README) of this introduction

Attention: 	You need gnutar and gzip und unpack those files. Both programs come bundled with NeXTSTEP since version 3.2.

On where to find the latest releases please see the 'About this Project' section.

Features

This app does not intend to become something like the NoteBook (from Millenium) or similar apps. It is intended to be small and simple, to launch fast and be at your fingertips whenever you need it. Those are the things you can do right now:

· 	Copy ASCII, RTF, RTFD text and paste it as a Note. 

· 	Use the Clip Note service to do the same¼but faster. This really is "@" your fingertips.

· 	Create or modify notes inside the notes window. 

· 	Create your private template for these notes so that you can recognize them more easily (use timestamps or icons etc. pp.). 

· 	ClipNotes will autosave all the changes and display the number of unsaved notes. 

· 	Escape without saving anything.

To get a description of all the features or to get a feeling where this app might go, I would suggest that you take a look at the Release Notes.

About this Project

This really was just a quick hack again. I needed a project to test my ClassEditor app, without worrying about it. Looks like the ClassEditor works¼and so does ClipNotes. 
You will be using another 4 day project. Once again this has shown to me how fast useful apps can be developed under NeXTSTEP. Most of the time was wasted finding out that there is no way to determine the currently active app¼or the app which created the contents of a pasteboard. Looks like OPENSTEP will not fix that :-(.

Anyway, now I have something to store all those nice WWW and FTP URLs I run accross while reading the news.

The latest version of this clipboard will be available at the ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de, ftp.cs.orst.edu and ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de anonymous ftp servers. There also is a WWW page were you can find out more about the status of this...and all the other projects I'm working on.
For details see the projects section of:
	
	http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/user/tsengel/

Compiling

This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile the program from scratch. It does not come with all the libraries! You will need to get the MiscKit project (Version 1.3.0 or higher) from the archives.

For more details on the MiscKit collection see the common NeXT ftp servers or get the Objective-C or NeXT FAQs. If you would like to submit something to this collection you should contact: Don Yacktman <don@darth.byu.edu>

In Case of Trouble

If you have any questions you can contact me.

	Thomas Engel
	Netpunstr. 9
	D-90522 Oberasbach
	Germany
	
	E-mail:	tsengel@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
			tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org

			(NeXTMail welcome)

Warranty and copyright

Copyleft

Source code that is not part of the MiscKit project - and therefore underlies the MiscKit distribution and copyright rules - is distributed under the GNUpublic license.

You are free to extend and modify this application. But don't redistribute a modified version under the same name unless I gave you the permission.
I don't want to have different, confusingly incompatible versions running around the world.

Anyway...comments are highly appreciated.

No Warranty

This software is provided 'as is' and the programmer is not responsible for any harm this program may cause.
You - the user - are responsible for everything that may happen to your business, hardware, software, car, CD collection or what ever may be worth your attention or money.
Using this product is at your own risk and your private fun.

There should be no serious bugs inside but remember that a carbon-based unit did the coding.

TravelWare

Like all my projects this app is free and should be considered as travel-ware.

¬   	Let it travel to as many people as you know. 

¬	Send me a postcard or E-mail if you use it. I will try to keep you informed about new releases.

¬	If you have a free bed or some free space on your floor¼ give me a hint. I might come and visit you on my trip to the US (locations on Hawaii, near Seattle or WhistlerMnt. (Canada) preferred)

Enjoy it.

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