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|  Protecting a Notebook’s Contents
Every Notebook has a cover page for hiding a Notebook’s contents from view. You can also set a password needed to open the Notebook, and encrypt pages within a Notebook.
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Every Notebook has a Cover page, which you can show or hide using the File → Cover command. By default the Cover page shows the Notebook’s name. Double-clicking the Cover uncovers the Notebook.
The Notebook Inspector (Window → Inspector) contains options for auto-covering a Notebook. For example, you can set a Notebook to automatically turn to its cover page if there’s no activity in the Notebook for some amount of time, which is great if you’re ever called away from your computer without a change to cover it.
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| Assigning a Password to a Notebook
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Choose File → Set Password... to assign a password to a Notebook. When you assign a password using the File → Set Password... command, NoteBook will ask you to enter it whenever you open the Notebook. The Notebook Inspector also contains an option to require the password to uncover the Notebook.
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| Preventing Editing on a Page
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Choose Page → Prevent Editing to prevent any changes from being made to the current page.
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| Encrypting Pages within a Notebook
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Even with a password, an unscrupulous person can view a NoteBook file’s contents in a text editor. For pages with sensitive information, choose Page → Encrypt within Notebook to encrypt the page’s data within its Notebook on disk.
When you choose Page → Encrypt within Notebook, NoteBook will ask you to set the Notebook’s password if you have not already done so, which it will use to encrypt the page. If you have not set the Notebook to ask for a password on open, NoteBook will only ask for the password when you turn to the encrypted page or otherwise attempt to access its information. For example, if you print or turn to a Multidex page, NoteBook will ask for the Notebook’s password in order to print or display information from encrypted pages. If you do not enter the password you can still print and access the Multidex, but no protected information will appear.
Note that while NoteBook encrypts the page’s data, it does not encrypt any of the page’s attachments.
IMPORTANT: Store your Notebook’s password in a safe place — you won’t be able to open your Notebook without it!
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