It is clear that note is a basic element of PNotes. Depending on your choice, made on Skins page of Preferences dialog, it can be skinnable or skinless.
Each note consists of three areas: header, text area and footer.
Header of note includes note's caption and two command buttons, which allow you to hide or delete current note.
In case of skinnable note notifications marks will appear elsewhere on note (depending on note's skin) , if note has been changed, scheduled, locked, has a high priority, marked as complete task, password-protected or pinned to other window. For skinless notes these notification will be displayed at note's footer
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All these icons are clickable, i.e. click on some of them will toggle current state (e.g. high priority or pinned status), or show schedule dialog, or save changed note.
Text area is an area you type your text in. Right mouse button click somewhere in text area will show pop-up menu for note's text operations:
Menu item |
Shortcut |
Description |
Undo |
Ctrl+Z |
Undoes last text operation |
Redo |
Ctrl+Y |
Redoes last text operation |
Cut |
Ctrl+X |
Cuts selected text |
Copy |
Ctrl+C |
Copies selected text |
Paste |
Ctrl+V |
Pastes text from clipboard into note |
Copy As Plain Text |
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Copies selected text discarding any formatting |
Paste As Plain Text |
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Pastes text from clipboard into note discarding any formatting |
Format |
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Opens submenu with text formatting options, identical to note's toolbar |
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Opens submenus |
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Spell Checking |
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Opens submenus |
Find |
Ctrl+F |
Brings up Find dialog |
Find Next |
F3 |
Finds next occurrence of text fragment |
Replace |
Ctrl+H |
Brings up Replace dialog |
Search with: |
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Performs web search for selected text using specified search provider |
Select All |
Ctrl+A |
Selects all text in note's text area |
Footer of note (usually, but not necessary, it may be any other part of note's surface) includes toolbar (visible only on active note) and, in case of skinless note, sizing grip, allows you to resize the note.
Note's toolbar includes 12 buttons (explained in table below) and gives you unrestricted formatting abilities.
Button |
Shortcut |
Description |
Font |
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Applies specified font to selected text |
Font Size |
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Applies specified font size to selected text |
Font Color |
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Applies specified font color to selected text |
Bold |
Ctrl+B |
Applies bold font style to selected text |
Italic |
Ctrl+I |
Applies italic font style to selected text |
Underscore |
Ctrl+U |
Applies underscore font style to selected text |
Strikethrough |
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Applies strikethrough font style to selected text |
Highlight |
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Highlights selected text with specified color |
Align Left |
Ctrl+L |
Aligns selected text left |
Center |
Ctrl+E |
Centralize selected text |
Align Right |
Ctrl+R |
Aligns selected text right |
Bullets/Numbering |
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Applies bullets/numbering style to selected text |
Right mouse button click anywhere on note's area, exclude text area, will show note's pop-up menu with items described in table below (you may assign hotkey to each command at Behavior page):
Menu item |
Shortcut |
Description |
Save |
Ctrl+S |
Saves current note |
Rename |
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Renames current note |
Save As Text File |
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Saves current note as simple text file |
Restore From Backup |
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Restores current note from backup copy |
Duplicate Note |
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Duplicates current note |
Ctrl+P |
Prints content of current note |
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Adjust Appearance |
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Brings up note's Adjust dialog with "Appearance" tab selected |
Adjust Schedule |
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Brings up note's Adjust dialog with "Schedule" tab selected |
Hide |
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Hides current note |
Delete |
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Deletes current note (choosing this command with left Shift button pressed will delete the note completely, otherwise the note will be sent to Recycle Bin) |
Dock |
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Opens submenu with docking options |
Send |
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Sends current note's content via email |
Send As Attachment |
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Sends current note via email as attachment (MS Outlook users - Outlook tries to treat received .pnote file as RTF file and even changes its extension to .rtf. Just save the received file as .pnote and continue to work with it) |
Send Via Network |
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Opens submenu |
Tags |
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Brings up Tags dialog |
Groups |
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Opens list of available groups and allows to change current note's group |
Linked Notes |
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Opens list of notes linked to current one and submenu |
Add To Favorites (Remove From Favorites) |
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Adds/Removes current note to favorites |
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Makes note topmost window. |
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Toggle High Priority |
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Toggles note's priority status. |
Toggle Protection Mode |
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Toggles note's protection mode. |
Set (Remove) note Password |
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Sets/removes note password |
Mark As Complete |
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Marks note as complete task. |
Roll/Unroll |
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Rolls/unrolls skinless note to its caption size (appropriate option should be allowed on Skins page of Preferences dialog). |
Pin To Window |
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Pins or unpins note to/from specified window. |