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Importing Notes from External Sources

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scrod edited this page Sep 13, 2010 · 4 revisions

Means Of Importing Data

Information can be added to NV in different ways:

  • Drag-and-drop into the list of notes
  • Drag-and-drop onto the NV Dock icon
  • The global New Note With Selection Services item1 (Command-Shift-V)
  • The Note > Import menu item
  • The Edit > Paste as New Note (also Command-Shift-V) menu item
  • Right-clicking the NV Dock icon and choosing Add New Note from Clipboard

Importing Stickies

  1. To import sticky notes, first locate your StickiesDatabase file. This is usually at /Users/YourUser/Library/StickiesDatabase.
  2. In NV, drag this file into the list of notes or choose Note > Import and select it there.

Preserving File Creation Dates

Individually imported files will normally have their “Date Added” set to the current time. To use the file’s creation date as “Date Added”, do the following:

  1. From Note > Import, select files and/or folders to import
  2. Check Import file creation dates

1 Enabling the Services menu item

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