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Peter's Many Things v 1.4a 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. You may use 800X600 (large font)
or 640X480 screen resolutions. You can now switch between
three separate "files" of 800 items each.
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, othewise the
file is complete in the evaluation version.
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.
-----> You can get to a speed menu with Right Click on the Main Screen.
Customize the colors with Options/Edit Color and Options/Background
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). You may also search for
two things with AND, or either one or another thing with OR.
You can do this in a single filter, or even in the 2nd filter.
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.
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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 options to control the way the 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.
Arrange screen: You can put the list of things
at the top or at the bottom of the screen.
You can customize the color of the main edit bar, and
opt to have the background screens black.
Files
You can switch between 3 separate files of 800 things each
with File/Open. If you wish to move items including the
topics for the items between files, use Edit/Move to File,
and select those items from the current view which you
wish to move. You can set the names for the files from
File/Open as well. You needn't use file names, just the
word you wish to describe the file. Files are color coded
by the background of the main screen.