ZxApp IT is designed as
one-stop-shop for getting your creative mojo. To help you manage your
time, it comes complete with a terrific set of Personal
Information Manager (PIM) features. They will help you to track and
manage just about anything, including notes, appointments, birthdays,
anniversaries, TO-DOs, contacts, addresses, passwords (securely), and
anything else you want. ZxApp IT was designed from the ground-up to
handle time-based organizational tasks. Define dates that repeat,
receive reminders and alerts, and view the whole thing in day-view,
week-view, month-view, year-view, list-view, or create your own view.
Figure 7.1 shows the main toolbar in its default configuration. From
left to right, these icons provide access to the Calendar, Contacts,
TODOs, and Passwords.
Figure 7.1: The main toolbar in its default configuration. There are
icons for Calendar view, Contacts view, TODOs view, and Passwords view.
The easiest way to enter an appointment is to create it directly from a
Calendar View by double clicking in a blank area, or by clicking the 
button.
But you can also create an appointment inside the WYSIWYG editor too.
You start by typing an @ symbol to indicate that you are about to
declare a record. Then type the first few letters of the record type
you would like to create. To create an appointment, you would type @ap.
Next hit [CONTROL]-[SPACE]. An empty
appointment record will be inserted into your document and the type
helper dialog will appear, as shown in Figure 7.2. The cursor will be
placed in the textbox for the first property. Enter the values for the
fields you want to populate, using the arrow keys (or tab and shift-tab)
to navigate between fields. When you are done hit ENTER. The
appointment record is placed into the document, and the cursor returns
back in the editor for you to finish typing your document.
Figure 7.2: The Insert Record dialog with Appointment
selected as the type to insert.
When guessing the type of the record you want to create, ZxApp IT always
chooses the first match. To create a new contact, type @cont. You could
just used @co to represent a contact, as long as you haven't created
your own custom type that starts with 'co'. If you typed @ and hit
[CONTROL]-[SPACE], ZxApp IT would insert the first type it found (the
first one defined in the organizer). If you didn't get the type you
wanted, no problem! Just choose the type you really want from the type
dropdown in the type helper dialog.
You don't need to use the type helper dialog if you don't want to. You
could follow the proper syntax and type a record directly into the
WYSIWYG editor. You can edit records there too. But the the type
helper dialog provides convenience tools, like date choosers, and popups
for selecting records, like when you are creating an appointment and you
want to specify which contact is the person with whom you have made the
appointment.
With ZxApp IT you can create your own web sites, backed by a
fully-scriptable templating engine. You can also create your own
database applications. ZxApp IT is backed by a sophisticated database
that makes it EASY for you to define your own types, and create
relationships between them, meaning you will be up-and-running within
minutes.
Organize and store rich-text documents hierarchically. Embed your
contacts, appointments, TODOs, etc, into your documents, or just put
them in the database if they don't fit in any particular document.
Then, perform incredibly powerful text search and/or record queries to
locate what you need, when you need it.
Figure 7.3: The WYSIWYG editor and the Record editor.
When a new Organizer file is created (from the File menu, or by clicking
on the 
icon
in the toolbar), the following Types are created by default;
These Types can be seen in Figure 7.1 below.
Figure 7.1: The default Types that are created when a new Organizer
file is created.
In addition, the following views are created by default;
These Views can be seen in Figure 7.2 below.
Figure 7.2: The default Views that are created when a new Organizer
file is created.
All views are available from the Views dropdown menu, as shown in Figure
7.3.
Figure 7.3: The Views dropdown menu provides access to all views.
Since these views work exactly the same as a user-created view, you can
read the section on Views
to learn how to create and delete records.