Phenote loads and saves data through the use of data adapters. Data adapters are little code modules that know how to get data into or out of Phenote. A data adapter may read data from a formatted file on a hard drive, write data to a relational database, or download a file from SVN/CVS.
Every file format/database schema/whatever is different. Many data adapters have complex options, particularly when saving data. Phenote has three data adapters built-in: PhenoXML, PhenoSyntax, and a tab-delimited format. (And soon will have an OBO-edit 1.3 annotation format adapter.)
This section provides a general overview of how to load and save, and then an in-depth discussion of each of Phenote's built-in data adapters.