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Preferences

Click the Notepad button or right-click the Taskbar icon and select the Preferences... item.

General tab:

Your name: This name will appear at the top of your sent notes when using the Send Note feature.

Notepad display: Choose how you want the notepad displayed: On the desktop and/or on the task bar.

The Purchase Information button will connect you to our website to learn more about the Standard and Office Editions: http://www.3M.com/psnotes!Inet("http://www.3m.com/psnotes"). Your computer must be connected to the Internet.

Sounds :You can play sounds for several note actions (e.g., new note, trash, etc.) by using the Windows Sounds control panel. Click on the Select Sounds button to open the Windows Sounds Control Panel. Scroll down the Events list until you see Post-it® Software Notes area. You can then link a sound to any of the listed events.

Sent Notes tab:

Receiving Notes

Make sure the box Enable sending and receiving notes is checked to send to or receive notes from others.

Play sound: Select a sound to play when you receive a note. If you have a sound card, you can select any .wav file to play. Other system sounds are available if you do not have a sound card.

Sending Notes

After sending: You can choose to see full feedback while the note is being delivered, or to see feedback only if one or more of the recipients cannot receive your note (it may take a minute or two before the dialog will appear).

Check the Insert (your name) box to have your name (as entered in the Your name: box on the General tab) inserted into all notes you send to others. It will appear as "A note from <Jane Doe>" at the top of each note.

If you would like to send notes using your default mail client, check the box to include your default mail client on the "Send Toà" option on the note. When you select your default mail client from the note menu a mail message will be created with the text from the note, a picture of the note. If the recipients are running Post-it® Software Notes they can open a file attached to the message to create a Post-it® Note on their desktop.

Subscription Notes tab:

When you subscribe to receive Subscription Notes from a website, the source of the subscription will be added to the list. You can remove a source by selecting it and clicking the Remove Site button below the list. Once you click the Remove button, you will no longer receive notes from that source. To re-subscribe, you will need to go back to the original website and click on the subscribe button again.

The source (the URL) of each subscription website is available by clicking on the Subscription Info button, as well as information about how long it has been since you last received a note from that source. You can also check to see if there is new information on that subscription website by pressing the Check for Notes Now button.

Subscribe to the 3M Post-it® Software Notes site to receive news about updates on the product.

Click on the Test Settings button to see if Post-it® Software Notes is correctly configured to get subscription notes. After clicking on the button, you will see a test dialog indicating that your computer is attempting to connect to the Post-it® Messenger Server. If you have the correct configuration, you will receive a note; if not, an error message will be displayed in the dialog box.

If you would like to import a list of subscriptions from another computer, click on the Import button. The list is saved in a file called "Subscription" in the PSN2Lite directory of your computer.

If you use a proxy server for Internet access, you must enter the address and port of the server. Consult with your network administrator for the correct settings. (If your default browser is Internet Explorer, select "Always use proxy settings from Internet Explorer". In most cases this will provide the correct settings.)

Internet Mail tab:

Notes sent via Internet Mail depend upon email servers for delivery. The Internet Mail Message Service requires that you be connected to the Internet and that you have an email service that uses an SMTP server to send your outgoing email, and a POP3 server to receive and deliver your incoming email to you. The Internet Mail tab is where you identify the mail servers that handle your outgoing and incoming email messages.

Sending Internet Mail. Type in the name of the SMTP Server your email account uses (this is the server that directs your outgoing emailùthe email that you are sending). Sometimes it is the same as your incoming mail server. You may be able to find the name of this server in your email application (look in Preferences, Tools, or Accounts) or ask your email administrator.

Type in your Return Address, that is, the email address associated with your SMTP Server. This is how you will be identified by the recipientÆs email service.

You can enter a title that will always appear as the "Subject" line in the email message. (e.g., "Post-it® Notes Mail Message").

Some SMTP servers require you to login before sending mail. You can set up the login options, user name and password.

Receiving Internet Mail. In order to receive notes that are sent to you via Internet Mail, you will need to enter the name of the POP3 Server your email service uses (this is the server that routes incoming messages to you). Sometimes it is the same as your outgoing mail server. You may be able to find the name of this server in the preferences of your email program, or ask your email administrator. Your POP3 User name is usually the part of your email address before the @ sign, and your POP3 Password is the password you use to access your email at that address.

The Polling Interval sets the frequency at which the software will check to see if you have any incoming Post-it® Software Notes.

Be sure to test that your POP3 server information is set up as required. Click on POP3 Server Information. The dialog window will indicate when you last received a note successfully from that POP3 server, and when you last checked for notes from that server. Click on the button Check for notes now to confirm that you have entered your correct user name and password for your POP3 account. If you get an error, try typing in your User name or password again and check again. You will not need to re-type the information on the Internet Mail tab; anything you type into the Checking for notes dialog will be copied back to it.

Click here to learn how about Sending Notes once you have your Internet Mail Preferences configured.