My first project :

To create a new project, you can use the main menu :

This will open this window :

The Project# is used by QuickP to sort the project list. The project list is ascending sorted according to the project#.

Enter the project name, the company (your customer), when the project will start and stop.

The project ref is mandatory, all your other items will refer this reference to belong this project.

The agenda symbol will be used by QuickP when writing an entry in the agenda file.

The Current task has been positionned here to help the user to manage automatic task numbering on task creation. This field will be updated every time you create a task for the current project. This field will contain the next task number which will be suggest when you will create a new task for this project.

Click on the 'Project folder' to select a specific folder where the attached files will be stored. QuickP will add a new subfolder in this folder named 'QuickP' (funny no ?). This folder will contain all internal note generated by the QuickP notepad.

Click on the 'Contact Prefs' to select the contact management. QuickP allows 2 modes : QuickP contact database or External Contact Database.

This feature is very useful, you can manage the contacts direclty in QuickP list or launch your favorite contact manager (or make it foreground if already launched) every time you click on the 'Contact' icon in the main icon bar. For example, if you select an external contact database :

You can select a DATA file ! or the 5MX contact application in selecting the 'Z' drive and the 'contacts.app' file in the '\system\apps\contacts' folder.

Validate all the windows and you will have created your first project.

You can now enter every kind of datas related to this project.