AgileNotes user interface is designed for maximum productivity by using one-tap(tm) operations toolbars for writing and drawing instead of multi-level menus.

The main window of AgileNotes contains (from top to bottom):

• Path bar
• File manager
• Editor (edit field)
• Edit&draw toolbar
• Main operations toolbar

Let's take a look at functionality of these user interface elements in details:

|=> Current path bar (on the left screenshot you can see the current path "\SD-MMC card\__Notes\"). This bar is not editable, but is scrollable by stylus when you try to select indicated path string.

|=> File manager which shows files of know format: *.pwi of Pocket Notes, *.rtf for rich text, including Pocket and Microsoft Office Word compatible, *.txt for plain text files (non-Unicode in the current version).

You can show/hide file manager by tap on the left (state) button on the main toolbar

|=> Edit field (editor) is a central part of the main windows and visible always (except situations when full screen modal dialogs are shown). Editor supports rich text writing, free-form drawing and copy/paste operations including paste of bitmap metafile images from the clipboard, for example from the Pockect Word documents. Copy/Paste operations ar available from the Editor's local menu (tap and hold on the selected text or drawing to call local menu).

|=> Editor works in two modes - Write and Draw. To switch between modes you should use two right buttons on the operations toolbar.

To apply any attribute( in both modes) you should firstly select an object (text, drawing or drawings group) and after that just click to the choosed attribute button like Bold for text or red fill for curved line, for example.

Write mode supports Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikeout, Bullet formatting attributes, 4 colors and Voice recording object. The voice recording button (right button on the toolbar) allows to show/hide the voice recording bar.

Draw mode supports two submodes:

• Draw-draw for free-form drawing
• Draw-select for applying choosed attributes.

To switch between submodes you should tap on Draw-select button. When it is switched on you are able to apply choosed attributes for selected objects

By default, the Editor is in free-form drawing Draw-draw submode. If you draw open-ended line and try to select it and apply filling color your object will be automatically closed to fill in.

To select an object (in Draw-select mode) - just tap to its line in any point . If you want to select several drawing objects tap, hold and move stylus to select all required objects by expanding the selection rectangle.

If you like to bring to front an object (especially filled by color) you should firstly "disconnect" it if it is already joined to another in single drawing (it is visible by appropriate grey rectangle with "Drawing" caption). After that you can select it and move back. So your object will be in front of other objects.

If you like to clear the fillig color just tap on the right button (with ellipse without fill color) and your object becomes transparent again.

In both Write and Draw modes you can tap on the special button to show horizontal scrollbar in editor. Thats especially usefull for Draw mode as well as Write mode for text with long Web-address urls.

|=> Main toolbar contains buttons for the general operations with file manager and editor (from left-to-right):

• Show/hide file manager
• Create new document (document format is defined in proceeding saving operation)
• Save current document (with the same name for opened document or new name and choosed format for new document)
• Save As to choose new name and format (pwi, rtf or txt) for the current document
• Zoom in, No zoom (100%), Zoom out
• Undo & Redo
• Icon/List view modes of file manager
  

Additional Tips on using AgileNotes

• All saving operations (Save and Save As) are working in the context of current folder (you can see full path in the path bar on top of the main window).
   
• You can set a default Home folder for AgileNotes. It will be saved in options file that is automatically placed in the AgileNotes installation folder. Also you can Go Home any time from the main menu as well to chnage the current folder to your home folder, for example on SD MMC card if you loke to store your notes and documents out of main Pocket PC memory. Home folder is automatically selected when you start AgileNotes.
   
• Main menu contains items to automatically launch Pocket Internet Explorer (or another default browser) to go to this site' home page and this FAQ page as well.
   
• AgileNotes is a single instance application that means one and only one instance in the memory (if you try to start it again you will just activate already running instance of AgileNotes).
   
• Please, remember that embedded File manager doesn't show files with extensions other then rtf, pwi or txt. So if you delet folder you will not get warning messages or information that folder contains any files except a standard message "Do you want to delete folder..?".
   
• If you try to save your note with drawings to rtf or txt file - all drawings will be lost because specific of these file formats. If you try to save document with formatted text as txt file - all formatting attributes will be lost except bullets which will be replaced by asterisk symbol "*". Pwi-files supports all text and drawing formatting attributes.
   
• AgileNotes works with standard pwi, rtf and txt files so you can exchange within files with users who haven't AgileNotes. If you send/copy your pwi file to the machine with installed AvctiveSync you can use Microsoft Office Word to convert and open your pwi-file; in that case all your drawings will be automatically converted to the embedded images. Please note that pwi-convertion operation on the desktop will be silently stopped just on the first voice recording object. So we recommmmend to place recording at the end of your notes to prevent loosing of the textual and drawings information in your pwi-files within use in such scenario (within ActiveSync on desktop).
   

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