Idea Keeper 

	© G. M. Berntson	1997

About Idea Keeper

Idea Keeper is a List, To Do, and Note Management Program for the Macintosh.  Use it to keep lists of important ideas, keep notes organized, and manage to do lists.  This program is very loosely based on the program "Stickies".  I have added to this program most of the features which I thought "Stickies" should have but doesn't.

Idea Keeper  works by allowing you to create individual "ideas" which are stored in "topics".  In Idea Keeper an idea has a name which is displayed in a list, and a window in which you can store details.  A topic is a set of ideas.  At any given time, Idea Keeper displays a single topic, allowing you to quickly organize and view the ideas it contains.  You can easily move between topics, and copy or move individual ideas between topics.

Ideas can be printed, exported as text files, or imported from text files.  Topics can be exported or imported as folders of text files corresponding to each individual idea.

NOTE G. M. Berntson reserves all rights to this program.  It may not be sold, bundled with any commercial software, or distributed without G. M. Berntson's written permission.  

This software is currently free for use on a trial basis.  If you use this software, please report bugs, suggestions, opinions to the author, Glenn Berntson.

	berntson@oeb.harvard.edu

New versions of this software (and others) can be found at the following web site:

	http://plantecohost.harvard.edu/gmbWWW/root.html


Shortcuts (Not indicated in menus)

Note: Commands for editing the text of each idea are available in the menus of each idea window.

When Any Window is in Front

⌘-1	through 0 open the first 10 ideas text windows
Option-⌘-1 through 0	Activate the first 10 Idea Sets

When the Organizer Window is in Front

Double Click on an idea to open it or press Return/Enter to open the selected idea

When any Topic's Text Window is in Front

The arrow keys move the selection (cursor) around in the text window.  The effect of holding down modifier keys has the following effects in conjunction with the arrow keys:
	⌘	Left/Right - move to Beginning/End of a line
	⌘	Up/Down - move to Beginning/End of a document
	Option	Left/Right - move to Beginning/End of a word
	Option	Up/Down - move to Beginning/End of a paragraph
	Shift	Extends the selection over any movement of the selection curssor (and it works in conjunction with ⌘ and option)