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4.10 Choosing Field Labels and Types

In Notenik, each Collection of Notes contains a template file. By customizing this file – either through the Notenik Collection Settings, or via your favorite text editor – you can specify the Field Labels and Types to be used for each Collection.

Different field types present different sorts of editing widgets and varying kinds of displays, and also have different sets of functionality associated with them.

To a large extent you can mix and match these different field types to achieve your particular purpose for a Collection.

Notenik currently recognizes almost forty distinct field types.

Among the most common are:

• Title - The Title of the Note
• AKA - Also Known As, to provide an alias for wiki links
• Body - The Note text itself
• Date - A due date, or a publication date, as examples
• Recurs - A recurs rule for repeating a dated note
• Status - Draft, Published, Canceled, etc.
• Seq - An arbitrary sequence number, or priority level
• Level - The intended indention level for a note within a sequenced Collection
• Link - A link to a website, or to a local file or app
• Tags - Custom labels implementing any sort of categorization scheme
• Timestamp - A unique identifier that won’t change if a Note is renamed