Last updated: 1/18/12
Since version 1.2, JotAgent supports as an option the ability to allow the user to manipulate how it automatically formats the title of new notes.
Important! This feature is recommended for advanced users only because of the following reason:
If JotAgent formats all notes in an identical format, the older note will be overwritten with the new one.
Under the title format field, feel free to use any of the following modifiers, all in lower case and between parentheses like shown below:
(month) for the current month (shortened)
(day) for the current day
(year) for the current year
(hour) for the current hour in 24-hour format
(minutes) for the current minutes
(seconds) for the current seconds
(month number) for the current month in number format
(weekday long) for the full, current weekday
(weekday) for the current weekday (shortened)
(month long) for the full, current month
(hour 12) for the current hour in 12-hour format
(am pm) for the current hour to show AM or PM
(year short) for the current year’s last two digits
As of version 2.5, the (line) option no longer works. Now you can set custom titles by tapping on the “JotAgent” header. Or you can re-enable similar functionality in the formatting option within the app’s settings.
For anything not supported above, feel free to add it between apostrophes, like so:
‘My note’
The default is:
(month)(day)’-'(hour)(minutes)(seconds)
The above will set titles to something like this:
Oct12-120513
The previous example is based upon that the iOS device’s clock registered the following as the date:
October 12th, 2010 at 12:05:13pm
Another example:
‘My note for ‘(month)’ ‘(day)’, ‘(year)
The above will set titles to something like this:
My note for Oct 12, 2010
The previous example is actually not recommended if you intend to take more than one note per day, since another note will overwrite the previous one. (Even the default format will overwrite an existing note each year if they coincide to the exact same second that two notes are uploaded.) Such example was actually used to further show how customization is possible between apostrophes which will add to a more descriptive title. There must be no spaces between apostrophes and parentheses, so if you wish to add blank space please do so between apostrophes as shown above.
Due to chance for data corruption, avoid using the characters “/“, “\”, or “.”
If you’re using these characters, you will get an alert the next time you try to edit a note as a safety precaution.
To make the example as effective as possible, let’s modify it to the following:
‘My note for ‘(month)’ ‘(day)’, ‘(year)’ at ‘(hour)’-'(minutes)’-'(seconds)
As so, the previous example will format titles to something like this:
My note for Oct 12, 2010 at 12-05-13
This example is infallible and will never be overwritten unless you manually regress the iOS device’s clock to the previous date and time already passed.
The reason the previous example used “-” instead of “:” for the time is because some Windows users reported that special characters like “:” did not work in their version of the Dropbox client.