myRichTexts
Your nifty word processor with smart document management built right in.
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Whatever you need to write, myRichTexts offers an intuitive way to just focus on writing without to worry about your documents, text files, backups, or how to regain them — myRichTexts takes care of it all for you! All of this is done in a self-explanatory and user-friendly way. myRichTexts saves your documents in the background and creates a backup at every start-up if you wish.
All of your documents are just one click away at the left-hand side menu and are completely searchable. For your convenience, myRichTexts allows you to add tags to your documents, which, in turn, can be added to your Spotlight searches and grouped into 'Smart Folders' as well; thus, you will never again lose or misplace another text document.
Best of all — you can easily sync all your documents/entries/writings across multiple Macs. myRichTexts supports iDisk/Dropbox sync, will automatically save and backup all your documents/entries in the background and even supports the use of OpenMeta tags.
Work on multiple documents with ease, open them in a second and independent view, store individual notes to each entry and merge/combine documents/entries for printing and export them with a single click. Self-evident that myRichTexts offers all comforts you know from other mature word-processors like rich text formatting, word- and character count, statistics, fullscreen, customizable defaults and even printouts with footer.
Additionally myRichTexts has some nifty goodies on board to help you get all your writings better done — even perhaps with a smile. To name some: Document/Layout preview, Define words, Word frequency statistics , Highlight text, Mark text spots as inline comment and lots more…
● rich text formatting
● built-in document management
● smart folders for grouping
● combine/merge entries for print/export
● export/print single/arranged/all
● export/print with date/title/notes
● footer for page numbers/title/date/author
● statistics | preview | word frequency | etc.
● customize colors | font | size | margins | etc.
● inline comments | highlight text spots
● fullscreen mode
● zoom to easily change the view scale
● auto-save
● auto-backup
● iDisk | Dropbox sync
● tag your texts
● OpenMeta | Spotlight support
● iTunes-like search
● all your texts at your fingertips
● apply notes to each text | entry
● word/character count
● supports .txt | .rtf | .doc | .docx | .xml | .html | . schreiben | .mldx
● lots of more nifty features
1. Create a new document/entry (cmd+N | Toolbar button | Menu))
· Entries are stored inside database and as extra single file on disk by default
· Entries and files are automatically saved in the background by default
2. Apply tags to each document/entry
· Tags are used for grouping, are searchable and can be written to Spotlights database
· Tags can be changed at any time
3. Select 'Automatically wrap to page' if you need to take care about formatting/paper size
myRichTexts can open and import following file formats:
- Plain Text Format (.txt)
- Rich Text Format (.rtf)
- Rich Text With Attachments (.rtfd)
- Word 97 Format (.doc)
- Schreiben Format (.schreiben)
- myLines Documents (.mldx)
There are several ways to open a document.
1. You can choose File > Open, select the document, and then click Open.
2. To open a 'text' document from the Finder, double-click the document icon or drag it to the myRichTexts application icon.
PLEASE NOTICE!
You may have to apply used file formats with myRichTexts first. Select such a file in Finder and choose Information from Finder menu and set 'Open with' to myRichTexts and confirm: 'Change all'
PLEASE NOTICE!
myRichTexts is not a 'document based' application like Word/Pages/Schreiben etc.
So you are not 'really' working with single files - instead you are working with a database. For safety reasons all entries are stored and auto-saved as single files - too by default. But this also means that you don't work with a single file / and don't 'save' a single file to Finder - you need to export it to the desired format and place.
The big advantage is: you don't need to take care about saving and folders etc.
And the biggest advantage at all - you are free to combine entries/documents!
This means you can export a single entry/document (the selected one) or you can export all arranged (maybe a 'Smart Folder') as one (long) document to disk and you are free to include the notes/date/title of each entry. This gives you the freedom to export/save (and yes - print) a complete novel/play/thesis - even when they are split into single entries (chapters)…
1. Select content of exported document
· Entry Structure: Date/Title/Body/Note
2. Select scope of exported document
· Export selected (in list) entry
· Export all arranged (in list) entries - (e.g. all entries marked as 'flagged')
3. Choose file format for export
· Supported formats: .txt/.rtf/.doc/.schreiben/.docx/.xml/.odt/.html
4. Choose if saved document should also be automatically exported as Mail.app attachment
1. Select content for printout
· Entry Structure: Date/Title/Body/Note
2. Select scope for printout
· Print selected (in list) entry
· Print all arranged (in list) entries - (e.g. all entries marked as 'flagged')
3. Select if you want/need to print with footer
4. Select style/content of footer
· Page Numbers
· Date
· Title
· Author
> If needed first page can be skipped
PLEASE NOTICE!
Margins for printouts can be customized in Preferences. 'Screen Margins' to not effect printouts and are only for a better workflow…
You can also make your document available as a PDF file - procedure is the same as described in previous step (Print documents/entries). Instead of sending the data to your printer you will 'save' a .pdf file to disk…
Before you format or perform other operations on text, you need to select the text you want to work with.
You can format text using the 'Format-menu', the myRichTexts menus, the Inspector and the Fonts window.
The primary tools for adjusting text attributes are the 'Format-menu' and the Inspector. You can make some horizontal alignment adjustments (such as centering text or aligning it on the left) by using the Format menu.
Use the Line Spacing control in the Inspector bar to quickly change the distance before or after paragraphs. To adjust spacing before or after paragraphs, select the text, and then click the Line Spacing control in the Inspector. You can also increase or decrease the amount of space between characters.
You can use the horizontal ruler and the Inspector to set indents for paragraphs.
1. Create a new 'Smart Folder' for grouping documents/entries (cmd+shift+N | Menu > New Smart Folder…)
2. Apply title and the tags used to filter all documents/entries (e.g. show all entries with tag 'poems')
3. 'Smart Folders' can be changed at any time
4. Apply filters (ctrl+1/ctrl+2/ctrl+3/ctrl+4)
[All] - resets the filter to show all your entries
[Smart] - applies the selected 'Smart Folder' to the list of documents/entries (e.g. show all documents/entries with tag 'poems')
[Current] - shows all documents/entries from last hour/day/week/month (changeable in Preferences)
[Flagged] - shows all documents/entries marked as 'flagged'
1. If enabled all your documents/entries will automatically be saved in the background
2. If enabled myRichTexts will perform a complete backup of your database at startup
· in case of errors or mistakes you can revert at any time (Menu > myRichTexts Data > Restore)
3. All entries are automatically saved (and auto-saved) as single files
· Working with a database is really fine - but (and there is always a but, isn't it?) in case of an error all documents/entries are gone – that is why myRichTexts additionally stores all your entries as single files by default
4. Enable if you want to store your database, your single files on your iDisk/Dropbox, on a thumb drive, extern HDD etc.
! Please ensure that this path/folder is accessible and writable
5. Enable if you want to store your backup on your iDisk/Dropbox, on a thumb drive, extern HDD etc.
! Please ensure that this path/folder is accessible and writable
6. myRichTexts supports OpenMeta, thus you can automatically write applied tags to the Spotlight database
Mac 1
1. Open myRichTexts
2. Create at least one entry
3. Open 'Preferences' window
4. Open the 'Data' tab
5. Enable 'Use custom database location'
6. Choose folder on iDisk/Dropbox
7. Quit myRichTexts
Mac 2
1. Open myRichTexts
2. Import Database file from the iDisk/Dropbox folder
3. Open 'Preferences' window
4. Open the 'Data' tab
5. Enable 'Use custom database location'
6. Choose the same folder on iDisk/Dropbox
7. Quit myRichTexts
In case you need to know some statistics about your writings - just choose > Menu > Show Statistics.
Sometimes it is a good idea to preview a document before wasting lots of paper. Thus myRichTexts has a 'Preview' built-in! Just click the 'Preview Button' or choose 'Show Entry Preview' from menu.
In case you need to work with different documents (or want to track/check changes or different versions) - just open the 'Second View' and select the desired entry…
You are free to store individual notes to each entry and you can print such a note if needed - separate or together with entry…
Sometimes - maybe if you want to share your comments/thoughts with others/include them while exporting an entry - you can ‘mark’ such a spot as ‘Comment’
To do so choose > Menu > Format > Comment > Mark/Start
There is also an option to highlight words/phrases…
By default (can be changed at any time in Preferences) the 'Main Window' will automatically resize to fit to content/text view (depending on margins/page wrap and zoom settings etc.) - so you can just focus on writing…
If you don't like that behavior - just disable 'Automatically resize window when sidebar is toggled' in General preferences.
For a distraction free writing environment you may want to enable the fullscreen mode.
PLEASE NOTICE!
· Fullscreen mode is toggled by shortcut: cmd+option+U
· Exit Fullscreen mode with escape is also possible
· Text view will automatically resized in hight to fit your screen
· Text view will keep and restore the width - so this mode won't break your default settings/page wrap etc.
· In Fullscreen mode the Inspector/Menu/2. View etc. will be not available
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