Every note in a note pad has an 8 byte name by which it can be identified. The name is assigned by the application when the note is created. Subsequent requests to read, update, or delete the note specify this name to indicate which note in the note pad is to be processed. All the notes that exist in a given note pad at a given point in time will have unique names. Once a note is deleted, its name can be reused for a newly created note.

The designer of the note pad application must determine how to name the notes. There are no restrictions on the content of the note name. Thus the note pad designer is at liberty to use whatever naming scheme best suits the application. Some applications restrict names to alphanumeric characters to make the names human readable. Other applications model the note pad as an array of notes and use the index of the array entry as the name of the note. Some applications would like to use very long names to identify their data, but must devise a translation scheme to convert those long names into an 8 byte note name.