Neatnik Manual

Introduction to Neatnik What is Neatnik? Neatnik is a utility for neatening up folder windows. You might call it a “folder window wrangler”; it whips your folder windows into shape, setting their position, size and “View” options according to your preferences. Because it processes multiple folders at a time (even a whole disk’s worth, if you like), it saves you the time and effort of setting up your windows one at a time. Who will have a use for Neatnik? • Well, people who like things neat, for starters. • Everyone else. As the power and capacity of our computers increases, the amount of information and the number of files we own increases. Too much information with too little organization results in wasted time and effort. Neatnik is a tool for visually organizing your desktop. Neatnik will save you from infoglut. • People preparing a CD-ROM or floppy disk for publication will appreciate Neatnik as an easy and automated way to prepare the disk so that its folders open in neatly arranged positions, and with their other characteristics set up consistently. • With the introduction of Mac OS 8, Neatnik becomes more widely useful. There are now many different ways to view the contents of a folder, and each folder can be different. But setting these “view” options is often a chore. Mac OS 8.5 allows you to set a folder to “Standard Views”, or alternatively to set each of its options individually. With Neatnik you can set a easily set the view characteristics, as well as the size and position attributes, of a batch of folders, based upon the characteristics you set for the “parent” folder -- the folder that contains the other folders. Minimum Requirements: Neatnik requires the scriptable Finder. The Finder in System 7.5.x and 7.6.x is scriptable, provided the extension “Finder Scripting Extension” is included in your Extensions folder. This extension is part of the standard System installation. Mac OS 8.0 and later don’t require this extension. Cost of Neatnik: Neatnik is shareware and costs $10.00. You can pay for it with credit card by e-mail, telephone, fax or postal mail, or with a check by postal mail. See the section of these instructions entitled “Paying for Neatnik” for full information. This Manual: These instructions are divided into a few sections. You can go to the next section, “Using Neatnik”, by clicking the right scroll-arrow below, or by selecting the next section from the “Contents” menu above. Neatnik Manual Page 1 Tue, Oct 18, 2022 Using Neatnik: The first thing to understand about using Neatnik is that it works from a “parent window”. Your first step in using Neatnik would be to set up one folder window the way you want it in terms of position, size, and View settings. Then you would launch Neatnik and in Neatnik’s Preferences dialog, set which characteristics of the parent folder window you would like to be adopted by the folders contained within that pa…