|Aษอออออออออออออออออหออออออออออออออออออออออออออออออออออออออออออหอออออออออออออออออป |Aบ |6Feature Program|A บ ^1 Note Cards |A บ |6Feature Program|A บ |Aศอออออออออออออออออสออออออออออออออออออออออออออออออออออออออออออสอออออออออออออออออผ ^Cby ^CMike Maynard Note Cards is an organizational program for notes of all types: from formal research to reminders of recipes in that stack of magazines under the coffee table. Use the special HELP feature to guide the reference entry to exactly the right bibliographical reference form or "free-form" it. This program is adaptable enough for everyone. The three major functions of the program are adding, browsing, and printing notecards. Since Note Cards is primarily a "data organization" tool, we recommend that you use the "COPY IT" function from the Big Blue Disk Menu to copy the program to another disk which has more free space than the Big Blue Disk publication disks. Use in the "READ IT" function to print a copy of the documentation. ^1GETTING STARTED The Main Menu contains: Open/Create Card Group Add Note Card Browse Note Cards Print Note Cards Clear All Marks Help About Note Cards Exit this program Use the and arrows to move the highlight to Open/Create Card Group. Press to display the Load Note Card Group screen. If any Note Card Group filenames are found in the current directory, their names will be listed in the column "Filenames." To start a new group, type a filename and press . For example, type "mycards," and press . NOTE CARDS will verify that you wish to create the "mycards" group filename. The program will return to the Main Menu, with the Add Note Card option highlighted. Press to add note cards. ^1ADD NOTE CARDS The Note Card Data Entry screen allows you to type in all the information needed for the notecards. The sections of the screen are labeled with field names as follows: Title: The title of the article, recipe, etc. Key: Key words that will be used to find this reference. Reference: The formal or free-form information that identifies this specific entry. Notes: The free-form notes, just as would be written on a standard cardboard notecard. Fill in each piece of information and press to move to next field. Press to view general help on using NOTE CARDS. Press to view the special REFERENCE help as a guide to typing reference entries for formal research. Note that is only active while you're editing the REFERENCE FIELD. When a card of notes is complete, press to save it. After the last "page" has been saved, press to stop adding notes and return to the Main Menu. For example, if the filename created above, mycards, is to be used to collect references to "Coaching Youth Sports," one entry might be as follows. "Title" might be entered as "Coaching YMCA Baseball." "Key" might be the two words "baseball YMCA." "Reference" might be "Hinton, Jonathon. 'Coaching YMCA Baseball.' YMCA SPORTS HANDBOOK. Washington Press, 1985." --or-- "YMCA SPORTS HANDBOOK." "Notes" might be "Great reference for beginning coaches. Fundamentals only." Press to save the card, then to return to Main Menu. ^1BROWSE NOTE CARDS To look at notecards after they have been entered, highlight Browse Note Cards on the Main Menu, and press . The Note Card Display screen allows you to browse, print, or change the information for a notecard. Highlight the "Next" or "Prev(ious)" fields at the bottom of the screen and press to move from one card to another within the file. The notecards will initially be displayed in sequence by "Title." To EDIT (change), DELETE, or PRINT a notecard, use Next and/or Prev to display the correct card, highlight EDIT, DELETE or PRINT and press . Press to display general HELP about the operation of NOTE CARDS. To select only specific categories of notecards to be displayed: Press to bring up the Search Criteria Entry screen. Type in the words of the Title, Key Words, Reference, or Notes to be used in "searching for" the notecards to be displayed. Press to move from field-to-field. Press when done. Accepting the search data will automatically make the browse listing appear based on SEARCH CRITERIA. Press , highlight BY TITLE FIELD, and press to return to the full-file display sequenced by title field. ^1MARKING NOTE CARDS One of the features of Note Cards is the ability to select a group of specific notecards to be printed. Select a notecard to be printed by displaying the card using the Browse feature, and pressing to "mark" the card. You may use the Search feature to restrict the notecards displayed in Browse. The "UNMARKED" or "MARKED" designation at the top-left of the display will show the new designation. The Print feature allows printing of marked notecards, or ALL notecards. To print another group of cards, first CLEAR the currently marked notecards by highlighting Clear All Marks on the Main Menu and pressing . Then mark the new group of notecards to be printed. ^1PRINT NOTE CARDS To print notecards after they have been entered, highlight Print Note Cards on the Main Menu, and press . The Print Multiple Records screen allows you to select the type of report to be printed. Four types of information may be specified for the report: records to be printed, parts of each record to be included, heading information, and a title for each page. Use the key to move from one of the four types to another. The and arrows will move the cursor from one option to another within the type; press to select an option. When options are correct, press to print the report. For example, to print a Reference List of ONLY those notecards "marked" during a search operation, including the date, time, and page numbers on each page: Press the arrow to the "Print Marked records" option and press . Press . Press the key to set/remove the "." until only the Reference option shows [.]. Press . Press to place "." next to date, time, page. Press . Type "Reference List." Press . Press To accept output settings and print report. If a group of marked notecards was printed, to print another group of cards you should first CLEAR the currently marked notecards by highlighting Clear All Marks on the Main Menu and pressing . Then mark the new group of notecards to be printed. ^1OUTSIDE BBD To run this program outside the ^1Big Blue Disk^0 menu, type: ^1NOTECARD^0. DISK FILES THIS PROGRAM USES: ^FNOTECARD.EXE ^FNOTECARD.LNK ^FNOTECARD.DAT ^FALL *.DB ^FALL *.IDX