12. Putting Keywords and Meta-Data to Work

When you undertake a writing project, the words that will compose the finished work are of utmost importance. The journey from beginning to end can be made easier, however, by the tools you use behind the scenes. Meta-data is arguably the most powerful of these tools because it can be used in so many ways.

Meta-data is all of the information about your file. In Chapter 11, “Digging into the Inspector,” you learned how to work with the title, synopsis, document and project notes, and reference links in the Inspector. These are all forms of meta-data. This chapter takes meta-data a step further into the ...

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