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• Introduction
  • About dtNotes
  • System requirements
• User interface
  • Note window
  • Notes list
  • Tray icon
  • Recent Notes List
  • Notes switcher window
  • Note settings
    • General settings
    • Alarm Settings
  • Program settings
    • General settings
    • Note Types page
    • Data Storage page
  • Shortcuts summary
• How To
  • Create new note
  • Change note color
  • Set reminder for note
  • Set default note properties
  • Import/Export notes
  • Use note as desktop clock
• Technical support
  • Problems resolution
• License and Registration
  • Registration
  • License Agreement

Notes list

The main window appears each time you launch dtNoted (you can cancel this in the program settings). If you don't see this window on your computer screen, you can launch it one of the following ways.

• Right-click the program icon in the system tray with you mouse and select the "Open list" menu item.
• Press the appropriate hotkey (Ctrl + Alt + L by default).

Program's main windows contains a list of notes and a tab area for quick switching between note lists:

Active Notes - This list contains all active notes, that is the ones you are currently working with.

Notes Archives - This is the place to store your old notes and move completed tasks to. You can set the program to automatically move all notes after completion to archives, when a certain time period has passed (See option "Auto move note to archive after" in the program settings window).

Trash (deleted notes) - Trash is a place where deleted notes are placed. You can restore the erroneously deleted note from Trash at any instance.

Notes list also displays text of a note, date of creation, date and time of an event, color, type and task status. You can change all these characteristics by simply clicking an appropriate icon. You can also sort out notes by different parameters if you click the header of an appropriate column.

If the note text is too large to fit one line, this icon is displayed next to it. Click it to enlarge the note text viewing area. If you want to minimize/maximize all notes in the list, use and buttons located in the tool panel.

To open a note, double-click it or select it and press button in the tool panel. This option is available only if you are in the Active Notes list or the Archive. You can't open a deleted note from Trash, because you have to restore it first.

Key combinations available in the Notes list:

• "Ins" - create a new note Shift + Ins - create a new note and insert text from clipboard.
• "Del" - delete current note
• "Ctrl" +"O" - open current note in separate window.
• "Arrow buttons" - move through the note list
• "Ctrl + Down" - expand (maximize) selected note
• "Ctrl + Up" - minimize (collapse) current note
• "F2" - start editing note's text
• "Esc" - finish editing note's text
• "Space" - launch note properties menu. Analogous to clicking note color, type or status icons.

Tool panel buttons:

• - create new note (all new notes are automatically placed to the Active notes list)
• - open selected note
• - move selected note to archive (available only when viewing the Active notes list)
• - move selected note from archive to active notes.
• - delete note. When deleting a note from the Archive/Active Notes list, it is placed to Trash. If you delete it then from Trash, you won't be able to recover it!
• - recover deleted note from Trash.
• - empty Trash. Removes all notes from Trash.
• - expand all notes
• - collapse all notes.
• - open current note properties window
• - switch to active notes
• - switch to archive
• - switch to Trash.