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Peter's Many Things v 1.1 for Windows Manual If you find yourself with scraps of paper all over your desk from phone calls, to do lists, ideas, whatever, you will find Peter's Many Things useful. It has many ways of viewing your information, including group copy, paste, delete, and print windows. The consultant was Gary Chase. If you like it, please pay for it, it is not free. Send $20.00 to Peter Neuendorffer 1399 Commonwealth Ave #11 Allston, MA 02134. Email petern@channel1.com A disk removing the nag screen will be sent. Also, you will be able have 3 separate lists of 800 items instead of just one. Note in this manual the word "item" and "thing" are interchangable The Main List This software maintains a list. A "Thing" is a scrap of information that is one line (80 letters) long. In the bottom third of your main window, various Things are displayed, depending on the Filter on your list. Filters bring up selected items in the list. The list can be up to 800 lines. You can reverse the order of the list (the actual list is not reversed, just your view of it) by clicking on the checkbox just above and to left of the list. This is useful, as often the most recent items entered will be seen first in reverse order. Special Feature: If you double click on a word in the long white "Thing" data entry box, a Filter (search) by that word is done. For example, if the current thing reads "Fred is coming next Tuesday", if you click on Fred in the edit bar (not the main list) then all items mentioning Fred will come up in the listbox. Similarily, if you double click on a topic name, all things with that topic will be brought up. Sometimes when you enter a new thing in, it will not appear in the main list. This is because the new item does not meet the current view's Filter request. This can be disabled with Options/always show new. You may print the current list with File/Print. More on this and on copy/paste/group delete in the Edit/Options help section. A series of filters may be applied to see different groups of Things. You may filter the list twice at any given time. More on this under Filters. Thus you could filter your list by Word (search for word), Date (various date critereon), Topic (you set up your own topics), Important (items can be marked important. A second filter can be drawn from these choices, thus you could search for Word ("Bill") and 2nd search for Imortant, thus bringing up a list of all items containing the word "bill" and marked important. Second filter is available then the button "second filter" is lit in light blue. Putting in Data p 2. Putting in Data involves filling in the"Thing" (the long white bar) and a Topic. You can use this to add a new topic name, by typing in the new topic. You can also add and maintain topics from Edit/Topic Maintenance. If you want the item to be marked Important, click on the Important checkbox. If you wish it date-stamped, click on "stamp date". Stamping the date can be automatic by checking on Options/Auto Stamp date. If you manually enter a date in a Thing, make sure it is in slash format, with month,day,year numbrers entered. When you have filled in the new item, and topic (optional), and have the importance set, click on ADD to add the item to yourl list. Editing functions include, (afte clicking an a thing in the list): Replace: work with Thing already in list. Move: move the Thing to a new place in the list Click on a thing, click Move, then click on the new place desired. The main view is changed to Forward/Complete Combine: combine an item with the next item only available when your list is Complete, Forward. Filters: viewing the data Filters provide a way to look at your data in different ways. When a Filter button is clicked, the main list at the bottom of the screen will have different contents. The entire list is still there, you are just looking at different portions of it depending on the Filter. With all filters except "complete" you are given the option to move the search list to the end of you main list. This is useful when you select Reverse by clicking on the checkbox to the left and top of the list. When you have filtered your list, and then enter a new item, the new item will only appear in the current view list if it meets the condition of the filter. However the new item has in fact been added. (See Help/Options) Here are the filters: Complete: Your complete list. Important: Brings up a list of only the things marked important. By Topic: You choose a topic name, and the list will now show those things having that topic. You enter in a topic (optional) when you enter the thing, or replace it. By Word: This is a search by word(s). Filters continued: p. 3 By Date: You have choices of all things on a certain date, those which were enter today, those on or before a given date, those on or since a certain date, and those between two dates (inclusive). An item has to be stamped with the date for it to be recognizedi in a date search. Edit functions The Main Menu / Edit menu has several ways to handle your data. Copy brings up a copy of your current Window, with the same filter of items. Click on those items you wish to copy, then click on Group Copy. Things are now in the Windows Clipbaord. Paste when clicked displays the current contents of the Windows Clipboard. You may have copied a paragraph of a story into the clipboard previously. Then click on those items you wish to Paste to the end of the main list. Then Click Group Paste. Group Delete functions like Copy, except the selected items will be deleted from your list. The items are not copied to the Windows Clipboard. Complete list allows a listing like the Filter Complete - the complete list, but the list is much roomier, and the screen is not cluttered by controls. You have no editing functions in this complete list. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edit/Topic Maintenance Bear in mind that this section has a direct bearing on your data. You can add a new topic, delete an existing topic, rename a topic -including renaming a topic to another topic to consolidate; You can sort the main list by topic, or Sort the topic name list itself. From this screen you can also unmark important items. When deleting a topic, you have the option (a checkbox) to also remove the data assigned to that topic. You can assign a group of items to a given topic by selecting "Group Assign" Options There are several opitons do control the way he program behaves. Large List Font: when checked, the font size of the main window is 12. When off, it is 10. Auto Stamp Date:when checked, when the current data bar is cleared, the current date will be stamped. Follow Highlighted Item. When checked, the software will track the highlighted item into the next Filter you choose. Options continued: p. 4 Always Show New: when clicked on, when you add or replace an item, it will temporarily appear in the main white list, even if it doesn't meet the current condition. For example, if you do a Filter by Word ("hello"); then if you add in a new thing, "this is goodbye", then the new thing will appear in the window. When Always Show New is not checked (off) then this new item would not be displayed in the filtered window, although it would still be added to the main list. Reverse list on Start: Always show the list in reverse when it is first loaded.