Bulleted Lists

Notebook will help you create a bulleted list. When you're editing a note, use the "Insert" button at the top right of your screen and select the "Bullet" option.

Choose the Bullet item to begin a bulleted list:

A bullet will appear on the current line. After entering a line of text and pressing return, a new bullet will automatically be added for you for easy list creation.

HTML Tags

Notebook allows you to use a limited number of basic HTML tags. When you're editing a note, just add in a HTML tag as shown here:

After you save the note using the Done button, your note will be displayed using the HTML tags you specified:

Landscape Mode

Notebook supports full horizontal rotation. View and manage your notes completely in either portrait or landscape mode.

Private Notes

Notebook allows you to mark specific notes as private. While this does not encrypt the content of your notes, this is an easy way for you to protect what's inside of your notes from others if/when you ever lend out your iPhone/iPod touch.

Marking a Note Private

Inside of a note, the toolbar contains a lock icon. Tap this icon to mark a note as private.

Once your note is marked as private, the private note toolbar icon will show a locked icon:

Now (depending on your settings as described below), your note will appear as locked in the notes list and you will be required to enter in the passcode before viewing it again:

Setting a Passcode

To set up a passcode to protect notes marked private, go into Notebook's Private Notes settings (Settings -> Private Notes).

In the "Private Notes" section, choose between four display options:

Show - Both the title and content of the note will be viewable without entering a passcode.

Show Title Only - Only the title will be viewable in the notes list. To view the content of the private note, you must enter in the passcode.

Mask - This will only display a lock icon in place of the note's title in the notes list. To view the title and content of private notes, you must enter in the passcode.

Hide - Private notes will not be listed at all in the notes list. To allow them to appear again, you will need to choose one of the less-restrictive policies above.

Note: - If you have a passcode set and attempt to change your view policy to a less-restrictive policy, you will be prompted to enter your passcode first.

To set a passcode, use the "Set Passcode" in the Private Notes settings screen.

You'll then be prompted to enter a 4-digit passcode:

Once you've set a passcode, you can change it, clear it, or reset it.

Change Passcode - You'll be prompted to enter in the old passcode before being prompted for a new passcode.

Clear Passcode - This will remove the passcode entirely so that private notes can be viewed without entering a passcode. You will be prompted to enter in the old passcode.

Reset Passcode - USE WITH CAUTION - This will reset your passcode but also delete any protected notes stored in Notebook. Use this only as a very last resort if you have forgotten your passcode. Because this is fairly destructive, you will be asked to verify that you really want to do this by entering a confirmation passcode.

Note: If you synchronize with Toodledo, this action will not delete your note on Toodledo.com. You will have to re-enter your Toodledo account information into Notebook, but you'll be able to restore your private notes.

Toodledo Integration

Toodledo.com does not directly support private notes. However, if you view a private note online with Toodledo, you'll see a "---- PRIVATE NOTE ----" tag at the very bottom of your note. This is needed to indicate to Notebook that the note should be marked private.

URL and Phone Links

New to Notebook 1.2 is the ability to have URLs and phone numbers automatically appear as links. After you save the content of your note, if it contains a recognizable website address or telephone number, Notebook will automatically place a link under it.

To place a call or visit a website, just tap the link and Notebook will launch the appropriate program.

Online Synchronization

Access your notes from your desktop by synchronizing with Toodledo.

Multiple Notebooks

Notebook allows you to organize your notes into Notebooks. The All and Unfiled notebooks are built in. The All Notebook will show all notes regardless of the Notebook they belong to. The Unfiled Notebook will show notes that are not assigned to any Notebook.

All other Notebooks can be added, renamed, or deleted.

Full Text Searching

Notebook has full text searching built in. Touch the search toolbar item (the magnifying glass) either in the Notebooks view or the Notes view.

A search view will slide up where you'll be able to enter key words to search for. Notes titles and bodies will be search to match all of the keywords entered and the results displayed.

To remove the keyboard and see more search results at a time, touch the Search button on the keyboard. The results will function as a list that you can use to view and edit notes. If you modify a note so it no longer matches the keywords entered, the note will be removed from the list.

Offline Access

Access your notes even when your connection to the Internet is not available.

Works with Todo!

Create a new Todo task directly from your note in a matter of seconds.

Note Sharing via Email

Share your notes with others by sending your note in an email. Notebook directly exports your notes in an email. Additionally, if the recipient has Notebook installed, they will be able to quickly import the note into their copy of Notebook.

Ready To Use

Notebook is ready to use directly on your iPhone and, unlike some other applications, is does not require you to purchase a desktop application to make it work.

Share Your Notes

-If you want to send someone a note, just tap the share button at the bottom of the note's screen, select "Email Note" and send it to them directly in an email.

-Recipients can read the note in their email or import it into their copy of Notebook.

Convert a Note to a Todo Task

If you've also got Appigo Todo installed, easily create a new Todo task from your note by tapping the share button at the bottom of the note screen and then selecting the "Create New Todo" button.

Importing Palm Desktop (Mac) Notes

This is a tip written by "Jimmy" on the Notebook Google Group Forum on importing Palm Desktop for Mac Notes to Toodledo.com and Notebook.

Here are some step-by-step instructions for exporting memos (notes)
from Palm Desktop (Mac version) for import into Toodledo.com. These
are based on my travails, posted in other threads, trying to get 300+
notes out of Microsoft Entourage and into Toodledo. It's actually a
couple of steps simpler if you're coming from Palm Desktop. I just
verified each of these steps as I typed them up, so I'm confident that
they work. Appigo/Toodledo developers, if you want to permanently post
these somewhere, please do.

Why all the rigamarole? The first issue is that Toodledo.com accepts
only CSV (comma-separated values) files for note upload. Palm Desktop
for Mac exports only as tab-separated files. So you will need to
convert the Palm export file from tab-delimited to CSV. The second
issue is that you will need to do some editing of the memo body text
in order for it to sort itself into the right fields in the
Toodledo.com importer, and to retain any line breaks/carriage returns/
paragraph breaks in the body text of individual notes.

You will need:
a) Microsoft Excel
b) TextWrangler, a free program that is available here:
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/download.html

In Palm Desktop, open up your Memo List and choose "Export..." from
the file menu. You'll have a choice of which Module to export, which
in this case is "Memos." You'll want to choose to export all of your
memos. The format you want to use is Tab & Return. Click the "Columns"
button, and choose to export only Title, Body and Category 1. Give the
file a name and click "Export." The file will be saved as a plain text
document.

You are now ready to bring this plain text file into Excel so that you
can make some edits and convert it to a CSV file. First, you'll have
to make a couple of preparations in Excel:
a) Open up a new workbook, select all of the cells on the worksheet
you're on, and choose "Format >Cells...." from the Menu bar. Under
"Alignment", put a checkmark in "Wrap Text" in the "Text Control"
section. Click OK.
b) In the Excel preferences, choose the "Edit" section and make sure
that "Edit directly in cell" has a checkmark. Click OK.

With your new Workbook open, go to the Data menu item and choose Get
External Data>Import Text File. Choose the Palm export file from
wherever you saved it and click "Get Data." This will open up a Text
Import Wizard.

On the first screen of the Wizard, choose "Delimited". Click Next.
On the next screen, choose "Tab" as the type of delimiter. Click Next.
On the third screen, set (or leave) the Column data format as
"General." Click Finish.
On the next screen, choose "existing worksheet" and select the top
left cell of the sheet as the place your data will start flowing into.
Click OK.

All of your notes should now be populating your worksheet. There
should be 3 columns, one for the Note title, one for the note body,
and one for the Category. Each row is a separate note.

You will notice that, if you had line breaks in the body of a
particular note, they have been replaced by a dark paragraph symbol.
You will want to turn these back into real line breaks so that your
notes look right in Toodledo.com and Notebook. The remainder of these
instructions explain how to use Excel and TextWrangler to fix this.

In your worksheet, you will need to put double-quote marks ("text text
text") at the beginning and end of the text in any note body cell that
has line break symbols. This is because the CSV file format will
respect line breaks within a cell so long as the text is surrounded by
double-quote marks. You can edit any cell directly by double-clicking
in the cell. (If the first or last character in the cell is one of
those paragraph marks, the double-quotes should enclose those symbols
as well.)

Once you've done all that, you'll need to save the workbook as a CSV
file. Do a "Save As" and choose CSV (comma delimited) as the file
format. Just click on through the "caution screens" that Excel will
throw up at you and save, then close the window. You should now have a
file somewhere saved with a .csv extension.

Now, you're going to fix those paragraph symbols in the the body text
of your notes using TextWrangler. Open TextWrangler and use it to open
the CSV file you just created. Now, select one of those paragraph
symbols and copy it (command-C). Then, under the Search menu item,
select "Find..." In the "Search For" field, paste in (command-V) the
paragraph symbol that you copied. In the "Replace With" field, type in
\r (backslash r). Then click the "Replace All" button. Then save the
document.

The TextWrangler-edited file is now ready for Toodledo.com import. Log
into your Toodledo account and go to the Import page, then scroll down
to the CSV Notebook Import section. Choose the CSV file you just
finished editing and click Upload.

You'll be taken to a screen that shows you a preview of how your
imported notes will be organized. (If you've done everything correctly
in the earlier steps, your ducks should all be in the right rows and
columns, and you'll have line breaks in the note body text instead of
symbols. If you didn't, the first likely culprit is that you forgot to
put a double-quote mark at the end of one of the text cells, which
would throw everything off. So you'd have to back up and figure out
where you went wrong.)

There will be dropdown menus at the top of each column so that you can
pour the notes into the right places. Set the first column as Title,
the second column as Note, and the third column (the category from
Palm) as Folder. If everything looks right, click the Save Changes
button at the bottom of the Window.

Congratulations, your notes should now be in Toodledo, organized in
folders that correspond to the categories you had in Palm desktop!
Sync with Appigo Notebook and you will be good to go. If the double-
quote marks bother you, you can always edit them out in Toodledo, but
if you've got hundreds of notes, it's not worth the bother, and you
can take them out individually when you have to look at a particular
note or change it.

I hope this helps. The same steps need to be taken to get notes out of
Entourage, except that you'll first need to use an Applescript from
Paul Berkowitz to export the notes from Entourage. It costs a little
money for the scripts, and is a bit of a pain, but if anyone is
desperate for a step by step on that, I'll post one if I get a chance.

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