NoteTaker was designed to allow you to take down quick notes that you can later search using FIND or arrange using subsets and Categories. Open NoteTaker and you are presented with the "All Notes" screen, displaying the title of a note, the size of the note in number of characters, and the first 38 characters of the note.
NoteTaker All Notes Screen: Graphic
Press (F2) to add a note, or highlight an existing note and press (ENTER) and an individual item screen is displayed.
Blank Note Screen in NoteTaker: Graphic
From this screen you can key in the Title of the note, tab to the note portion of the screen and enter the full note (maximum of 32K, about 30 screens of text), then tab to the Category field and enter a key word to organize or group the notes (e.g. HomeImprove, Work, presents, books, etc.). Note Taker is really a version of the Database application with only three fields, Title, Category and Note. You can sort your notes, create Subsets, move the columns around, export data with the SmartClip, and more.
Perhaps because of its simplicity or because of the Note field available in Appointment book and Phone book this application gets overlooked. Also, many users are accustomed to making quick notes in MEMO, and as a result have numerous files.
As you'll see from their experiences, these 100LX users have found many creative ways to use this simple notes database to solve both business and personal information management problems.
Some of the more surprising uses of NoteTaker we found was that it was being used in key business functions like time billing and inventory control: