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Welcome to EZ-Notes! A complete guide for new users

 Topics: 
   1.Login System
-Upon start up, you will have two options when it comes to account management, "Login" and "Register". Our registration system will require basic personal information along with a username and a password. 
To login and have access to your saved notes, simply type both the username and password associated with your account into the corresponding data fields. 

   2.Menu Interface
-Upon entry of the application, you will be greeted with recent saves, files, notebooks, and menu screen. You can reopen any of these saved documents, and begin working within them. Learn more about this
    feature in the title below.  

   3.Creating your first Notebook and Notes
    -Creating your first Notebook is simple, first understand a Notebook is a collection of Note documents, to create a singular sheet click, "Add Page". To create a Notebook click, "Add Notebook". To insert
    a new page into a notebook, select the Notebook that you have created and then follow the procedure for adding a singular sheet. To expand a Notebook and see all of the contents bound to that directory, press it again to 			collapse. To unopen all documents selected, click the "Refresh" bar to reload all saved data entries. To delete a file simply select the object, click "Delete", and a window will appear asking if it is okay to delete the object.  
    
   5.Citation Support
    -Inside of your notebook, click "Add citations" (Note, all citations are in the MLA format and our application is only equppied with the utilities for formating websites. You will be prompted to enter in site information, please
    enter in all applicable information that you have up to date on sources. 

   6.Economy System
    -Our economy system is based off time, you can enable earnings by entering focus mode inside of a notes document, more on focus mode below. Every second that passes in real time equivaltes to one credit. You can spend these                credits within the shop interface of the garden which will be explained in more detail below.  

   7.Starting your garden
    -Upon entry, you will be granted a level one tree, and the starter environment. You can upgrade these as time goes on, and your credit amount increases. As you progress, you can level up founded landmarks which gives the 		artificats more growth and texture. To purchase items, simply click on the prompted button and the amount will be reduced from your credit balance.  
   8.Modes
    - Standard: No music, no economic features, just you, your notes, and a quiet space. 
- Zen: Standard mode with a cyclical playlist of tracks created to soothe the mind and influence productivity. 
    - Focus: Standard mode with the exception of the ability to earn credits to spend in the shop

References:

--Java Swing https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/index.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/swing/package-summary.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/card.html

--Netbeans https://netbeans.org/kb/trails/matisse.html

--File Management https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6366743/saving-files-to-a-specific-directory-in-java https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4917326/how-to-iterate-over-the-files-of-a-certain-directory-in-java https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20039980/java-replace-line-in-text-file

--Interactives https://www.codejava.net/coding/how-to-play-back-audio-in-java-with-examples

--Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws8ofAF0Gxk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUcQVC8De1o&t=1435s

--Jar and Exe Files https://www.stackoverflow.com/questions/804466/how-do-i-create-executable-java-program