
What Is Stationery?
An Example of Stationery in the Notepad
Let's start with the Notepad as our example. In the 1.x OS, the Notepad only created notes. The 2.0 OS adds a New button which gives Notepad users three choices: Notes, Outlines, and Checklists. The Notepad was extended from an application that edits notes ordered by creation date to an application that edits items of variable size ordered by creation date." FIGURE 11.1 shows an example of multiple items in the Notepad.

FIGURE 11.1 : The standard Notepad.
Users are not limited to three types of things in the Notepad, however. Because of stationery, you can extend this list to include other kinds of data. Imagine a farmer comes to you (a Newton programmer) and wants a way of recording the daily temperature and wind speed in an orchard. A quick way to do this is in the Notepad.
By adding temperature stationery to the Notepad, the farmer can view and edit the temperature and wind speed. The Notepad has to offer a brand new choice in the New button, as well--a temperature item (see FIGURE 11.2).

FIGURE 11.2 : The Notepad with a new choice.
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