UnoPN Ubê%NPress Space to see the next note or Backspace to go back to the previous note.  @cê% Good! You've justlearned how easyit is to browse apile of UsefulNotes. Continueto browse thispile for a shorttutorial on how touse Useful Notes. !  eê%Useful Notes is an informationmanager. The basic unit ofinformation is a "note" likethe one you are reading now.Notes are grouped into "piles".Tutorial.uno is a pile.< 5iê%9Think of Useful Notes as being a blank pad of note paper.9Each time you want to remember something you the grab the8top sheet, jot down the information, then put it on yourdesktop someplace. }mê%Like real paper notes, UsefulNotes can overlap. If youwant to see something under areal note you move it. PressScroll Lock now and practicemoving this note around. 5 ›oê%Unlike real notes, UsefulNotes can be resized. Ifyou have not already doneso, press Scroll Lockagain and try resizing this note.   z´ë% To start a new notesimply press the'N' key and type.Useful Notes willkeep the wordsinside the bordersof a note. Pressthe Esc key whenyou are finishedtyping. Try it.  #·ë%The text for a note canbe bigger than the noteitself. You can usethe cursor keys to movethe text around insidea note window. Pressthe cursor keys now tosee the text below.The arrows in the upperand lower right handcorners of a note show0where there is more **** MORE TEXT ****text. Is there text onthis note you have not seen yet? ."  ¹ë%As you can see the desktop has become quite cluttered. You canclear away all but the currentnote with the Order command.Press 'O' to select Order then'C' to Clean. We'll look atsome of the other Order optionslater.  b½ë% Each note has aunique ID number"pre-printed" onit. Press theCtrl and the 'G'key at the sametime to see oneway this number can be used.  ~·ï% If you think of a noteas a piece of paper,so far we have onlybeen using the "front"of the note for text.There is also someuseful information onthe "back" of eachnote.,$ t»ï%"If you could see the backside of anote it might look like this:! ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿! ³ ³! ³ Time/Date: ³! ³ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° ³! ³ ³! ³ ³! ³ Description: ³! ³ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° ³! ³ ³! ³ ³! ³ Properties: ³! ³ ³! ³ Execute ° Locked ° ³! ³ ³! ³ File ° Nowrap ° ³! ³ ³! ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ   ýÅï% When you create a note, the time anddate is stamped ontothe back. UsefulNotes can use thisTime/Date stamp to"Order" your notesbased on when you entered them.   ,Æï% You can type anytext you want intothe Description fora note. Press 'E'then F7 to add adescription to thisnote. Press Enterthen Esc when you are done typing.,  ^àï%'The Description is used in many ways by"Useful Notes. You can Order notes'alphabetically by description. You can%Search for specific "Patterns" within%descriptions, and we'll see later how(descriptions can be used to "link" notes together. , $8ÿáï%)Notes can have special "Properties". For)instance, when a note is "Locked" you can(no longer Edit it. Word wrapping can be&turned off in a note with the "Nowrap")option. If a Property has been selected,%its first letter appears in the upper(right corner of the note. Can you guess$which properties apply to this note?,âÿáï%#dir | more; text after ; is ignored*Notes with the Execute property set ON can&be used to run DOS commands. When you*press the Enter key while on an Executable*note, Useful Notes will "shell out" to DOS*using the note's Description as a command.(This will NOT work if you have popped-up)Useful Notes from the DOS prompt or there'is not enough memory to run the command%specified by the Description. Try to"run" this note.'When Execute is selected two additional*sub-Properties appear. "Clear" will blank(the screen prior to running the command,*and "Restore" will redraw the desktop whenthe command returns. ,  ”ð% &With the "File" property set, a note's%Description will be treated as a file'name. When saving a note, Useful Notes*normally puts the text for the note in the*"pile file". A "File" note's text will be%saved in a separate file named by the$Description. Likewise when loading,)Useful Notes gets the text from the namedfile.1  ½,ð% hot spots .If you enclose some text in [square brackets],+Useful Notes will treat that text as a "hot/spot". You can use the Tab key to move between,hot spots. When the cursor is on a hot spot+the hot spot will be highlighted. Pressing+Enter while on a hot spot will cause Useful/Notes to search for that hot spot's text in the-notes' Descriptions. If the search succeeds,,you will be moved to the first note with thematching Description. 8  /ð%square bracketsThe opening andclosing squarebrackets must beon the same line. [hot spots]<  8cð% Well that shouldbe enough to getyou started. Trythe other commandsnot covered inthis tutorial. Becreative! Havefun. Mike