PrivateText - User Guide
Essentials
As shown on the side (pictures are touchable to enlarge), the first view of the app requires the user to enter the login password (at the beginning the user is required to set the login password).
A successful authentication leads to a calendar view that allows to access each day for writing and reading purposes.
To enter a specific day the user touches the corresponding date.
After come to the 'Daily notes' page, the soft-keyboard can be dismissed by touching the handle located just above the text editing area, and can be recalled simply touching the text area.
When the user makes some editing action the 'Save' button becomes enabled to allow the user saving the changes.
At the end of the editing/viewing session the user can return back to the calendar view, by means of the left arrow located at the left top corner of the screen.
A further 'left-arrow' action drives the user to the login view, exiting, this way, the area protected by password.
The calendar view contains the 'Settings' button that leads to the page on the side, where the user can do the following actions:
- making a choice between 'Diary' mode and 'Organizer' mode
- changing the login password
- Setting the magic questions used for password recovery, activatable from the login page, in case of forgotten password
- Getting info about, and possibly buying, the premium level
The importance of setting the magic questions
It represents the only chance the user has to stay in control of the app upon a forgotten login password.
The app does not rely on a network server so the developer has no chance to help the user to restore the login password.
A reinstallation of the app always drives the user back to the control of the app but this makes the user to loose all the app content.
The 'magic' questions (so called because they solve the issue) allow the user to recall strictly confidential contexts to the mind. For that, they must be chosen with a very high degree of attention. The app allows to try (test) a password recovery experience just after the definition of the magic questions.
Once the magic questions have been set, the user can discover, in the login page, a small touchable label 'forgotten ?' aside of the password editing box.