The following are a series of tips to follow to make using PlanBee easier.
Auto Position Your PlanBee and Web Browser Windows
Capture the Webpages You Want
Filters can stop Ads from appearing in your buzPAKs
Improve PlanBee's Speed
Use Cut instead of Delete
Save Webpage Content that Changes Frequently
Auto Position Your PlanBee and Web Browser Windows
Using this feature will automatically reposition and resize your PlanBee and web browser windows to make maximum use of your screen space while preventing either application from overlapping the other.
After opening PlanBee and your web browser, click Windows on the Menu Bar. The Windows menu appears.
Click Arrange Web Browser Window (you can also use the hotkey combination Ctrl+R). Your PlanBee and web browser windows arrange themselves to maximize available screen space.
Capture the Webpages You Want
Use Capture On Demand mode, unless you plan on browsing for only a short time. Capture On Demand mode allows you to select which webpages you want to include in your buzPAKs, while Auto Capture mode captures everything you browse. For more information on connection modes see, Connect PlanBee to your Browser.
Filters can stop Ads from appearing in your buzPAKs
Put advertising sites such as doubleclick and flycast (along with others you may encounter) as entries in Exclude the following for your default filter. By doing this you will help prevent advertising from appearing in your buzPAKs. For more information on creating filters see, Modify the Current Filter.
Improve PlanBee's Speed
If you are using a slower PC, there are a number of features you can turn off to improve PlanBee's speed. Turn off the following features in the listed order:
Go to Edit > Application Settings > Display and turn off all the Performance Options.
Go to Edit > buzPAK Preferences > Layout and turn off Automatic Layout.
Use Cut instead of Delete
Cutting content from your buzPAK places the information cut on the Windows clipboard. You can then choose to Paste that information back into the buzPAK or into a different buzPAK. Deleting content permanently removes it, and it cannot be pasted back.
Save Webpage Content that Changes Frequently
Many websites update their content on a daily basis. For example, a particular webpage may have an article on cancer one day, then an article about flu season the day after. To avoid losing content you want included in your buzPAKs, you should save the contents of the webpage. There are two primary methods of doing this:
Copy and paste the text contents of the webpage into a note added to an item representing the webpage in your buzPAK.
Using your browser, save the HTML of the webpage to a temporary directory. You can then attach that HTML file to a note added to the item representing the webpage in your buzPAK.
For more information on attachments, items and notes click the related topics button below.