# The &kjots; Handbook

Matt Johnston

    matt.kde@caifex.org

Christoph Neerfield

    Christoph.Neerfield@home.ivm.de

Developer
Lauri Watts

    lauri@kde.org

Reviewer
2000 Matt Johnston
&FDLNotice;
2004-10-17
0.05.00

This handbook describes how to use &kjots; 0.5, a small program which is handy for keeping miscellaneous notes.

KDE KJots kdeutils notes organizer

## Introduction

&kjots; is a small program that helps you to write down some short notes and organizes them for you.

## Using &kjots;

&kjots; has two basic items used to organize your notes - Books and Pages.

You can create a number of books in &kjots;, and each book can contain a number of pages, where you actually type your notes. Each book should be given a name (so you can find what you are looking for), as should each page. Although you aren't forced to give a page a name, it is sensible to do so.

### Using Books

To create a new book, use &Ctrl;&Shift; N or the menu entry File New Book, and you will be prompted to enter a name for the new book.

The name of the new book should now appear in the left part of the window. If you want the book to be in your Bookmarks, use &Ctrl; B or the menu entry Bookmarks Add Bookmark . You can even organize your bookmarks in separate folders just as you probably do in &konqueror;.

If you want to have your books in a different order, you can simply drag and drop the book to the place where you want it to be.

Maybe you have noticed that there is no Save anywhere. This is not an error, &kjots; saves your books and pages automatically, so you will never lose that small note you write when you are on the phone and need to write down something in a hurry.

You can also export an entire book as a text file or as a html file, using File Export book... . You will be then prompted to enter a location for the file to be saved. The format of an example saved book is shown below:

    ############
    # First page
    ############
    Remember to go to the shops!

    #############
    # Useful code
    #############
    10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
    20 GOTO 10

    ################
    # The third page
    ################
    This is the third page and is an example for KJots.

Remember that the dialog where you are prompted for a filename is a standard &kde; dialog. That means it is just as easy to store the file on your local hard disk as it is to save it on a web server, ftp server or USB memory stick. So you can export as html and save it on a webserver, this way you always have your notes available to you.

### Using Pages

Pages are where you actually write whatever you are going to write. Once you have created a book, you can type text in the main text box.

To create additional pages, you can use &Ctrl; N or the menu entry File New Page , which will create a new page. Similarly, the current page can be removed using File Delete Page.

If you need to insert the current date and time while you are writing a note, you can use &Ctrl;I .

So that you can get to the page you want to see, pages can (and should) be given a name. This can be done in the way you are used to: select the page you want to rename, wait a second and click it once more. You are then able to rename the page. Of course there is also a keyboard shortcut, you can use that at any time while writing a note. The shortcut is: &Ctrl;M.

An other way of renaming the page is by selecting a part of your note and then press &Ctrl;T, the selected text will instantly become the title of the page.

If you want fast access to a particular page, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to that page. Go to Settings Configure Shortcuts... .

## Command Reference

### The File Menu

&Ctrl;N File New Page...

  Creates a new Page.

&Ctrl;&Shift;N File New Book...

  Creates a new Book.

File Export Page

  Saves the current page to a text file or a html file.

File Export Book

  Saves the current book to a text file or a html file.

File Delete Page

  Deletes the current page.

File Delete Book

  Deletes the current book.

&Ctrl;P File Print

  Prints the current book or page.

&Ctrl;Q File Quit

  Quits &kjots;.

### The Edit Menu

&Ctrl;X Edit Cut

  Cuts the currently selected text in the main textbox and places it on the clipboard.

&Ctrl;C Edit Copy

  Copies the currently selected text in the main textbox and places it on the clipboard.

&Ctrl;V Edit Paste

  Pastes text from the clipboard to the main textbox.

&Ctrl;T Edit Paste as Page Title

  Renames the page to the text on the clipboard.

&Ctrl;F Edit Find...

  Searches for text in the main textbox. Note that this only searches the current page.

F3 Edit Find Next

  Searches for the next occurrence of the search text (specified with Find).

&Ctrl;R Edit Replace...

  Replaces one bit of text with another, only on the current page.

&Ctrl;M Edit Rename...

  Gives the possibility to rename the current page.

&Ctrl;I Edit Insert Date

  Inserts the date and time in the current page.

### The Bookmarks Menu

&Ctrl;B Bookmarks Add bookmark

  Adds the current page to the list of bookmarks. See Using Books.

Bookmarks Edit bookmarks

  Edits the bookmarks. Here you can search bookmarks, make comments, organize them in different folders and much more.

Bookmarks New Bookmark Folder

  Makes a new folder where you can store your bookmarks.

### The Settings Menu

Settings Hide/Show Toolbar

  Toggles display of the toolbar below the menu bar.

Settings Configure Shortcuts...

  Choose shortcut keys for various menu items.

Settings Configure Toolbars...

  Choose which items are present in the toolbar.

Settings Configure KJots...

  Configure options for &kjots;, including the font to use and the settings for autosaving.

### The Help Menu

&help.menu.documentation;

## Credits and License

&kjots;

Program copyright 1997 Christoph Neerfeld Christoph.Neerfeld@home.ivm.de

Based on the `jots` program included in the tkgoodstuff package. The tkgoodstuff package is copyright 1995-96 Mark Crimmins markcrim@umich.edu

Documentation copyright 2000 Matt Johnston matt.kde@caifex.org

Some parts taken from documentation copyright 1998 Christoph Neerfeld Christoph.Neerfeld@home.ivm.de

&underFDL; &underGPL;

## Installation

### How to obtain &kjots;

&install.intro.documentation;

### Requirements

In order to successfully use &kjots;, you need &kde; 2.x. There are no other requirements.

### Compilation and Installation

&install.compile.documentation;

### Configuration

&kjots; is a nice small program, and you don't have do do anything before running it.

&documentation.index;