• BEFORE INSTALLATION, please make sure that the date and time on your machine is correct so that Open Sesame! makes accurate time-based observations. If the time or date is incorrect, consult the User's Guide that came with your Macintosh. Double click on the Open Sesame! 1.1 Demo Installer icon to start the installation.
• Open Sesame! 1.1 Demo is a fully functional version which expires 30 days from the date of installation. Should you decide to purchase Open Sesame! 1.1, all of the instructions and knowledge that Open Sesame! has learned from you during the demo, will be automatically transferred.
WHAT GOES WHERE:
• Installing Open Sesame! 1.1 Demo creates the following files on the selected hard disk:
File Location
Open Sesame! Open Sesame! Folder on the hard disk
Open Sesame! alias Startup Items folder in the System Folder
Open Sesame! Extension Extensions folder in the System Folder
Open Sesame! Preferences folder Preferences folder in the System Folder
ObjectSupportLib Extensions folder in the System Folder (on Power Macintosh)
Speech Manager Extension Extensions folder in the System Folder (on 68K machines)
OPEN SESAME! QUICK REFERENCE:
• Balloon Help:
Choose Show Balloons from the Help menu and point to items in Open Sesame! to learn about Instructions, Observations, and Preferences.
• Learning Behavior:
Open Sesame! learns your repetitive patterns over time. Some patterns are detected earlier than others, like consistent opening of applications, folders and documents where Open Sesame! may offer to put items in your Apple Menu or on your desktop. Patterns where one action triggers another may take longer to detect.
• Off Instructions:
As Open Sesame! begins to learn your patterns, it will likely observe patterns that you do not want automated. If you say no to these observations two times, Open Sesame! will create an “OFF” instruction for you. It is important that you DO NOT delete these “OFF” instructions. If you delete them, Open Sesame! will relearn the patterns.
• Creating Instructions:
While Open Sesame! will learn your repetitive patterns, you may also easily create instructions yourself by following these steps:
1) Choose the Open command in the Open Sesame! File menu
2) Click on the New Instruction button (pencil).
3) Choose the type of instruction you would like to create.
As an example, choose Desktop Items. Now, you can create a new desktop that will appear whenever you open a folder for a project you are working on, and have it return to the original desktop when you close the folder by following these steps:
4) Click on the Add and Remove buttons to create the list of desktop items you want.
5) Set the "When" field conditions to tell Open Sesame! to bring these items to your desktop when you open your project folder.
6) Make another instruction to have Open Sesame! reset your desktop after closing your project folder. Now you will be able to switch back and forth between the two desktops by just opening and closing your project folder.
By following the same steps, but choosing Apple Menu items instead, you can create entire sets of Apple menu items, and interchange these sets based on the times or events you choose. For instance, you can create a different Apple Menu for each of your applications.
• Power Users:
If you are a power user, then you may already be using some sort of automation/productivity tool. Creating Applets or mini-apps will greatly complement Open Sesame's power, as the learning mechanism will begin to monitor your usage patterns with these apps.
NEW 1.1 FEATURES:
• Open Sesame! Speaks!!!
Open Sesame! 1.1 now includes speech synthesis and voice recognition capabilities. On Power Macintosh computers, Open Sesame! 1.1 can speak new observations and confirmation dialogs, and respond to user's voice commands. On 68K-based Macintosh computers, speech recognition requires an AV model. Open Sesame! 1.1 monitors not only the high-level events generated by your mouse and keyboard clicks, but also those generated by voice commands to find repetitive patterns for automation.
Choose Open Sesame! Preferences from the File menu to specify the voice that you want Open Sesame! to speak with. If you choose either the "Male Voice" or "Female Voice" as the Voice Preference, then you have to allocate another 200K of memory to Open Sesame!.
• Open Sesame! Reminds!!!
Open Sesame! 1.1 can now display and/or speak reminder messages that you create, at the times or events you specify. To create a Remind instruction, choose the Remind task category (the last one) from the New Instruction pop-up menu in the Instruction Browser, enter the remind message in the Text field, and choose the desired remind sound from the Sound pop-up menu. Open Sesame! will then remind you with the message, at the trigger that you choose in the When field. Use the "Don't Confirm" option to let Open Sesame! remind you by voice without a confirmation dialog box.
• Open Sesame! Dynamically Changes Apple Menu, Desktop and Startup Items!!!
Open Sesame! 1.1 can now dynamically change your entire desktop in response to your opening a folder or closing an application, or to other time or event based conditions. You can now make an instruction for each of your projects that makes Open Sesame! bring to your desktop the folders, documents you need when you start working on a given project, and to put them away when you are done with that project. Open Sesame! can also automatically change your Apple menu and your Startup items. Take a look at the extended "When" fields while editing any Apple menu / desktop / startup instructions.
• Open Sesame! Suspends Automation Temporarily when you press the "Control" key
Hold down the "control" key to make Open Sesame! temporarily stop following an instruction. For instance, if you have an instruction for emptying trash whenever you put an item in it, Open Sesame! will not empty the trash automatically if you press the "Control" key while dragging an item into the trash. Similarly, pressing the "Control" key suspends confirm messages. For instance, if you press the "Control" key while deleting an instruction in the Instruction Browser, then Open Sesame! will delete the instruction without displaying a confirm message.
• Accelerated for Power Macintosh!!!
Open Sesame! 1.1 has been recompiled for the PowerPC chip. Now you can take full advantage of the superior speed of PowerPC technology.
