Getting Started

MojoPad is a document-based app, like Pages or Numbers. Each document is a self-contained .mojopad file that holds all of its pages, images, and attachments — copy it to another Mac, drop it in Dropbox, or back it up like any other file, and everything travels together.

One MojoPad, in your Applications folder

When it matters. You have just downloaded MojoPad and opened it from its disk image, or straight from your Downloads folder. It runs, but from there it cannot update itself, and your Mac may later open a wiki or a link in a different copy than the one you use.

What to do. A few seconds after its first window is up, MojoPad asks Move MojoPad to your Applications folder? Click Move to Applications: MojoPad moves itself there and reopens, with your wikis and settings as they were. If you click Not Now, MojoPad does not ask again until its next version, and MojoPad ▸ Move to Applications… stays in the menu for whenever you are ready. The FAQ says more under MojoPad asks to move itself to my Applications folder.

Creating your first document

• Choose File ▸ New Document… (⇧⌘N), pick a location, and give it a name.
• Every new document starts with one page, called Index — your home page. Press ⇧⌘H or click the Home toolbar button to return to it at any time.
• There is no Save button to worry about: MojoPad saves automatically as you work — when you pause typing, when you switch pages, and when you close the window. (⌘S still works for peace of mind.)
• Quit and relaunch whenever you like: MojoPad reopens the documents you had open, each with its tabs and current page exactly as you left them. Close a document by hand and it stays closed.

Making pages

There are many ways to make a page, and you'll end up using all of them:

• New Page (⌘N) — name it and start typing.
• Select text and press ⌘L — creates a page named after the selection and links the selection to it. This is the classic wiki gesture; it's how a document grows from one page into fifty.
• New Page from Clipboard (⌥⌘V) — turns whatever you've copied into a page, named from its first line. If the clipboard looks like Markdown, the page opens fully formatted.
• Today's Note (⌘T) — see Daily Notes.
• Duplicate Page (Edit menu, or right-click a page in the list) — copy an existing page, content and tags included. Handy when one page is your informal template for the next.
• Drag files in — images, PDFs, text files, and web archives each become pages. See Importing.

The window at a glance

From left to right: the page list (filter it, sort it, right-click it), the page you're editing, and the palettes — small tools that show everything about the current page and document. The toolbar holds navigation, the Graph, Settings, and document search. The format bar above the page controls type styles. All of it can be hidden, resized, and re-skinned — see Settings, Themes, and Layout.