The Note Menu

...contains Cut, Copy, three flavors of Paste for those of you who have fond memories of kindergarten, the same Find as in the Editor menu, Insert Blank Notes, Remove Blank Notes, Launch, Bookmark, Outbox, Broadcast, Receive, SynchroNote, Save As Textfile, Boilerplate, Keywords, and Color.

Cut and Copy will respectively cut and copy a note. The note will retain any special status that has been given to it (see below).

If you're looking for a Paste menu item, you want Paste Overwrite, which corresponds to standard Paste in that it will overwrite the currently current note. Paste Insert creates a new note from the contents of the clipboard and shoves all the existing notes down a slot to make room for it. Paste Append adds the text on the clipboard to the end of the current note -- if there's room for it. As mentioned elsewhere, there's a 65,535 character limit on the size of any given note. There's a Windows 95 reason for this.

Find is as described above. Possibly it shouldn't be. Maybe the Find, Find Lines, Replace and Replace All buttons should be disabled when the Editor is not active. What do you think?

Insert (and Remove) Blank Notes will insert or remove blank notes in the current category at the position of the currently active note. I assume I had a reason when I added these functions...

Launch will hand the contents of the current note to Windows Explorer and say "execute this", provided that the note seems to be something launchable -- i.e. starts with http://, file://, and most other internet-style prefixes, or looks something like c:\program.exe.

Bookmark will set or clear the current note's Bookmark status, which simply means that the current note will or will not be listed in the Bookmarks display in the Grid Box, which sits to the right of the Grid and is described elsewhere.

Outbox will set or clear the current note's Outbox status, which simply means...etc. etc. Outbox display etc. etc. described elsewhere.

Broadcast and Receive are designed to allow a single note to appear in more than one place in the notebox.

Should you want to do this, just click on the note you want to see multiple copies of and select Note|Broadcast. After that, click on a different note and select Note|Receive. You'll see a list of broadcasters. Choose the one you want and the selected broadcasting note will appear in place of the receiving note. (The previous contents will not be affected. When you want to stop receiving and work with said previous contents again, just select Note|Receive again; the original note will reappear unharmed.)

Broadcasting status is indicated by a leftward-pointing chevron (<<) in the grid; receiving, by a rightward-pointing chevron (»).

Importing noteboxes with broadcasting or receiving notes should work properly.

At the moment if you turn off the Broadcaster all the notes that are Receiving it will get turned off as well -- they'll show up as '»broken connection'. I should do something about this. Complain!

If you copy a Broadcaster and then paste it, you'll get two independent Broadcasters. Should you get a Receiver instead? You tell me.

SynchroNote should maybe be called AutoCopy. You link notes in much the same way as with Broadcast and Receive, but instead of having phantom copies of a given note you'll end up with actual physical copies. Change one and the changes will be autocopied to all the others in a breathtaking display of synchronization.

You can set a note as sync-enabled with Note|SynchroNote|Add to/Remove from Sync List...or press F11, which seems to be the preferred method.

You can create a synchronized copy of a note with Note|SynchroNote|Sync With...-- or you can just paste a copy of it, which seems to be the preferred method.

Danger, Will Robinson! What do you think fiddling with synchronized notes outside of Notebox Disorganizer -- such as when working with a copy of an exploded notebox on a PDA, or if you decide to load an .nbx file using a text editor -- will get you? Confusion, that's what. So don't. I should probably take a stab at compensating for this, at the cost of code bloat, but as yet have not.

Save As Textfile will save the current note as a plain or rich text (as appropriate) file. Handy!

Boilerplate and Keywords will pop up options to let you transfer the current note to or from the currently defined tables of boilerplate text and keywords. The functioning of boilerplate text and keywords are described elsewhere.

Color will pop up options to set the text and background colors of the current note as displayed in the grid (not in the editor).

This is a somewhat useless feature intended as a reminder to the author to implement some type of note color-coding.

Notes with special status (e.g. bookmarked notes) have special coloring that will override any colors you set here.