Copyright: GremlinSoft


 Welcome to GremlinSoft Organizer 97

a personal information manager and notes organizer.

GremlinSoft Organizer 97 is a very powerful notes organizer.  It's simple user-interface makes iteasy to use and puts all of its many features at your fingertips.

For a description of the program and its features please click here.

For Registration Info please click here.

Here are descriptions of the pop-up menu and main-menu commands:

Group List

Notes List

Note Editor

Tray Icon

For more information on GremlinSoft Organizer, please visit our web-site at:

http://gremlinsoft.base.org

Thank you very much for trying out GremlinSoft Organizer 97

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Registration Info
 How to Register GremlinSoft Organizer 97?

GremlinSoft Organizer 97 is a Shareware program, which means that you can use it legally for 30 days free of charge to evaluate it. If during, or at the end of, that period you decide that you would like to continue using it, please register your copy. Your registration will license you to use your copy of GremlinSoft Organizer 97 and will support work on future versions, new features, and bug fixes, and will provide you with technical support via e-mail.

The latest information on how to register is always available from the GremlinSoft homepage at http://www.gremlinsoft.base.org

The current registration fee is US$7.00 (or $10.00CAN).

If you would like to receive your registration key via snail-mail, please add US$3.00 (or $4.00 CAN) for shipping/handling costs.

Sending the registration key through e-mail is preferable and cheaper for you, therefore most of the people will probably choose that option.

You can register GremlinSoft Organizer by sending a U.S. or Canadian personal check or money/postal order to:

  Stanislav Mitranic

  #53 9520 Bonaventure Dr. SE

  Calgary, Alberta

  T2J 0E5

  Canada

Please make checks or money/postal orders payable to Stanislav Mitranic

Please make sure you send your full name, company name (if applicable), postal address and email address with your registration.

Once we have received your registration, we will send you an email with your registration key. If you've submitted a registration and haven't received a reply, you can email us at gremlinsoft@geocities.com to check up on the status of your registration.

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Features
 GremlinSoft Organizer 97 - Features

Here is a short summary of all the features in GremlinSoft Organizer 97:

 - Simple, yet powerful user-interface.

 - Ability to organize your notes into groups.

 - Each note has its own title.

 - All text that you copy to clipboard is stored in Clipboard group and if the text came from a different program and 'Clipboard' was the active group, text will be copied in the edit window.

 - Support for very long notes (up to 4MB per note).

 - 30-day trial period FREE OF CHARGE.

 - Printing capabilities.

 - Tray Icon user-interface with pop-up menu containing last 5 Clipboard notes and all of your favorite notes.

 - Customizable font and background color.

 - Context sensitive pop-up menus.

And here is a screenshot of the program itself:

In top left corner is a list which lets you organize all of your notes into groups.  You can add, remove and rename groups.

Beside the group-list, is a notes-list. It contains a list of notes in a group.  Clicking on any notewill show the whole text of that note in this window.  From the pop-up menu you can copy anote to clipboard, save it to a text file, rename it, delete it  or move it to a different group.

You will notice that the first group in the group-list is called 'Clipboard'.  This group is different fromthe rest, because whenever you copy a piece of text in any application, it will be stored in thisgroup.  This feature is very powerful and has many uses.

For example if you are working in a word-processor and want to write-down a short note, you don't have to switch to GremlinSoft Organizer, but you can simply type the note in your word-processor and copy it to clipboard.  It will be saved in 'Clipboard' group and from there you can move it to any other group.

The second group, called Favorites is also a special group, because when you click on theTray Icon with the left mouse button you will get last 5 notes from the clipboard group and allthe notes from the favorites group.  When you select one of these notes, they will be automaticallycopied to clipboard so you can paste it into any application.

GremlinSoft Organizer will automatically save all data to a file on the disk when you close it.

A note doesn't have to be short.  Each note can be up to 4 MB long.  This is way more than anybody will ever need, but we had to set a limit somewhere.

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 Group List

Group list shows you all the groups you currently have.  By clicking on one of the groups, its contents are automatically displayed in the Notes list.

If you click the right button in the Group list a menu will pop-up.  This menu can also be accessed by clicking on the Group in the main-menu.

Group menu has 3 options:

Add - Adds a group at the end of the group list.

Rename - Renames the currently selected group.

Delete - Removes the currently selected group completely.  If you accidentally delete a group, you can recover it by closing the program, deleting the data file (notes.dat) and renaming the backup file (notes.bak) to notes.dat.

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 Notes List

Notes list shows you all the notes in the currently selected group.  By clicking on one of the notes, its contents are automatically displayed in the Note Editor.

If you click the right button in the Notes list a menu will pop-up.  This menu can also be accessed by clicking on the Note in the main-menu.

(Note: MoveTo menu option is not accessible via the main-menu, but only when you click the right button in the Notes list.)

Group menu has 8 options:

Copy To Clipboard - Copies the currently selected group to the clipboard.  Same effect can be achieved by double-clicking on a note in the Notes list.

New - Creates a new note in the currently selected group.  New note's title will be New Note and it will have no text associated with it.

Rename - Renames the currently selected note.

Delete - Removes the currently selected note completely.  If you accidentally delete a note, you can recover it by closing the program, deleting the data file (notes.dat) and renaming the backup file (notes.bak) to notes.dat.

Move To - This menu option will show you a list of all the groups that you have and by clicking on any of these groups, currently selected note will be moved to that group. (Note: this menu option is not accessible via main-menu, but only when you click the right button in the Notes list.)

Print - Prints the currently selected note on the default printer with the font that is selected in the Note Editor Window.

Add Text File - Allows you to add a text file as a note in the currently selected group.

Save To Text File - Allows you to save a note to a text file.

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 Note Editor

Note Editor allows you to edit the text of the note.  You can modify an existing note or you can create a new note and edit the text for it. In either case, as soon as you click on a different note or group, the text will be saved into that note.

If you click the right button in the Note Editor a menu will pop-up.  Most of the options in this menu are accessible only when you right-click in the Note Editor (largest part of the window in the bottom half, where the text of the note is actually shown), but some of them are accessible via main-menu as well.

There are 5 options in this menu:

Insert As New Note In - This menu will show you the list of all the groups and by clicking on one of them you can insert the text as a new note in one of these groups.  If you selected some text and then clicked right button then the text of this options changes to Insert Selection As New Note In and instead of whole text being inserted as a new note, only the selected text will be used.

Save To Text File - Allows you to save the text to a text file.  If you selected some text and then clicked right button then the text of this options changes to Save Selection To Text File and instead of whole text being saved, only the selected text will be saved.

Insert Text File - Inserts a text file into the note at the current cursor position.

Change Font - Allows you to change font (type, size, style and color) for Note Editor Window. (Also accessible via Options in the main-menu.)

Change Background - Allows you to change background color for Note Editor Window. (Also accessible via Options in the main-menu.)

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 Tray Icon

Tray Icon is visible even when the main window is minimized, allowing you to still work with this program even though it is not taking up any space on your desktop.

When you click on the tray icon with the left mouse button a menu, consisting of last 5 Clipboard notes and all of your Favorite notes, will pop-up.  When you click on one of these notes, it will automatically be copied to clipboard, allowing you to paste it into any application.

If you click on the tray-icon with the right mouse button a different menu pops up and it consits of the following 5 options:

Restore/Minimize - Allows you to Restore the main window if it is minimized or Minimize it, if it is visible.

Graphics - Enables/Disables graphics in the Group and Notes Lists.  Normally graphics would be enabled, but if you for some reason experience problems with it, you can disable graphics. (Some people have experienced problems with graphics due to bugs in their video-drivers. It is not a problem with GremlinSoft Organizer and if you do experience some problems, contact your video-card manufacturer and check if updated drivers are available.)  This option is also accessible via Options in the main-menu.

Register - Allows you to enter Registration Key once you receive it from us.  This option is also accessible via Help in the main-menu.

About - Shows the About help screen with information about how many days of the free-trial period are left or your name if you have registered the program.  It is also accessible via Help in the main-menu.

Exit - Exits the program.  Also accessible via File in the main-menu.

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