Welcome to Notes

A Quick Tour of Notes:
Notes is a replacment for Apple's NotePad, which went missing in Mac OS X.  Using Notes is fairly simple.  Most common tasks can be done straight from the customizable toolbar.  The toolbar is customized or hidden in the same way as the Finder toolbar.  There are several other features that may not be so immediately obvious:

Import From Note Pad: If you used Apple's Note Pad a lot, you probably have a lot of information in Note Pad that would be tedious to transfer by hand.  Notes makes importing from NotePad easy.  Select 'Import from  Note Pad..." from the File menu.  Notes needs to find out where your Note Pad File is.  Note Pad stores it's information in the file 'Note Pad File' which is located inside your Mac OS 9 System Folder.

The Notes system service:  When Notes is placed in any of the Mac OS X application folders, the next time you log in to your computer, a 'Take Note' item will appear in the Services menu.  The Services is located inside the Application menu (The menu on the top left of the screen that is in bold text).  You can select text from any Cocoa application, select Take Note (or use the Shift-Command-K keyboard shortcut), and this text will automatically be copied and pasted into Notes, even if Notes is not launched.  You can choose what note the text is placed in inside the Notes Preferences.

Move To: When using Take Note, a lot of different information tends to collect in the service destination note.  Move To makes it easy to sort the mess out into different notes.  You can select any text, and use the Move To menu item (under the Edit menu), or the Move To toolbar item, to select a note.  The selected text will be removed and placed in the note you selected.

Other Things to Know:  If you ever wish to back up your notes, the information is contained inside your users Library folder, in a folder titled "Notes."  (YourUserName > Library > Notes)  To back up, copy the entire Notes folder.

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Notes 1.3.3
April 24, 2001

Version History:
• Version 1.3.4
- Fixed the name of the Show/Hide toolbar menu item in the German Localization.
- Fixed a few more problems with the new drag&drop visual feedback.

• Version 1.3.3
- Fixed a bug that truncates the last letter when renaming notes.
- Fixed a problem with the Window menu in the German localization.
- Fixed a crash when Cancel was pressed in the Import from NotePad dialog.

• Version 1.3.2
- Improved the note list visual feedback when using drag & drop.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a moved note to appear in the wrong location.
- Fixed a bug which would cause errors if a note name contained a newline character.
- The Notes window now comes foward when the dock icon is clicked.
- Moved several menu items into more appropriate locations.

• Version 1.3.1
- Fixed serious bug that could cause loss of data when rearranging notes through Drag & Drop.
- No longer allows you to delete the last note through the Toolbar button.
- Import from NotePad will now read NotePad files from several non-english Mac OS versions.

• Version 1.3
- Fixed several issues with Mac OS X Final.
- Tested and fixed issues with printing.
- Moved Printing dialogs into sheets.
- Added a customizable toolbar.
- Updated some icons.
- Better complies with the Mac OS X Final Aqua Human Interface Guidelines.
- Fixed a memory leak.
- Localized the Take Note title.

• Version 1.2
- Restored German Translation.
- The drawer list should now remember it's size.
- Added icons and additional controls to the toolbar.
- Eliminated border around text area.
- Note window now comes forward when the app is launched.
- Fixed the label on the Service Note popup in the Preferences.
- Note window is brought forward when a sheet is used.

• Version 1.2 Beta 1
- Note List moved into a drawer.
- Small toolbar added.
- Notes can now be organized into folders.
- Added the ability to import from Apple's NotePad.
- Fixed text appearing at the top of the note when Take Note was used.
- Added a Move To item in the Edit menu, to comply with the Aqua User Interface Guidelines.
- Renamed Set to Standard Font to Set to Default Font.
- Notes are now renamed by double-clicking on that note in the list.
- The name of the open note is now displayed in the window title.
- You can now completely close the Notes window.
- No longer have to hold down the command key to drag notes.

• Version 1.1
- Added text searching, both in the open note, and through all notes.

• Version 1.0.1
- German localization.  Special thanks to Holger Watermann.
- Fixed bug that, under some circumstances, would cause Notes to crash when creating, deleting, renaming, or re-ordering notes.
- Preferences window is now correctly titled.

• Version 1.0
- First public release!

Known Issues:
• None.

Planned features:
• A real icon!  Anyone want to send me 128x128 32bit Notes icon that looks real nifty? I'll add your name to the credits ;-)
• Use of Apple Help.
• Improved Drag & Drop support.

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Bugs, Suggestions, Feature Requests, Rants, Raves, and anything else should be sent to:
richards9@mac.com

If you are reporting a crash or unintended behavior, open the Console application, in Applications > Utilities > Console, and  paste the last 10 lines or so into the mail.  This will help me determine where the failure occurred. Also, please explain, in as much detail as possible, what you did just before the bug occurred.

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Disclaimer/Distribution Rights/Other Legal Stuff:

Notes is distributed as Freeware, so it may be used at no cost.
Notes may be distributed through free online services, provided only the original unmodified archive is distributed.  If you wish to distribute Notes through any other medium, please contact the author through email for permission.
Notes may NOT be distributed through any commercial or for-profit means, except with prior, written, consent from the author.
You acknowledge and agree that the use of Notes is at your own risk.  Notes, and all related files and documentation are provided as is and without any warranty of any kind.  As a free product, the author of Notes cannot be held responsible for any damages or loss of any kind caused by attempting to use this software.

In short: Don't try to make any money from Notes, don't modify the archive, don't distribute on a CD/DVD/etc collection without consent from the author, and the author holds no responsibility for any damage that results from the use of this software, even if caused by defects in the software.

Notes © 2001 Richard Schreyer