FORGOTIT.EXE is a small Windows 95 desktop utility which is used in the same way the original trademark "Post It". It offers up to four sets of notepads, each with up to ten pages Forgot-It is useful for keeping notes and reminders on your Windows 95 desktop, rather than on hard to find little pieces of paper. Forgot-It is shareware. The price is U.S.$15 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To install Forgot-It, simply unzip FORGOTIT.ZIP in a directory. Then right-click on INSTALUS.INF and select Install.... You can also uninstall Forgot-It in the standard way... (ControlPanel/Application/Remove) Thanxs to Yadla (j-f.legrosse@ac-nancy-metz.fr) for the installation scripts ! --------------------------------------------------------------------- A little yellow icon is placed on the Taskbar when Forgot-It is launched. Subsequent notepads are added to the taskbar as similar icons, but using green, blue and red icons. The pads can be used for different subjects or by different users. Click the LEFT mouse button on the yellow Forgot-It Taskbar icon to open the Forgot-It window. Clicking the RIGHT mouse button on the Forgot-It Taskbar icon will open a configuration menu. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The following Shortcut Keys will function in the open Forgot-It window : ESC : Minimize the Forgot-It Window to the Task bar icon F2 : Save NOW the contents of Forgot-It. (Default is saved when closing Forgot-It) Alt-F4 or Alt-X : Exit Forgot-It Ctrl-A : Select All Alt-F : Select default Font. Alt-L : load an external file, and put it at the cursor. Alt-S : save the note to an external file Ctrl-D : Date in short format Alt-D : Date in long format Ctrl-T : Time F1 : Help F2 : Save now! --------------------------------------------------------------------- When open, each Forgot-It window can cycle through 10 different pages. Click on the left and right arrows next to the page number to cycle through the pages. You can also click on the page number to pull down menu of pages You can open up to 4 different Forgot-It windows. Right click on the task bar icon, then select 'New' to open each additional Forgot-it window. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Forgot-It will allow you to set alarms. To set an alarm, insert, in the note, the DATE that you want the alarm to activate, as follows: @01/12/96 (European format) or @12.01.96 (U.S.A. format) The note will appear with an alert box when the day is reached. (The examples above will generate an alarm on December 1, 1996.) Then Forgot-It will replace the '@' symbol with the '#' symbol indicating that the date for the alarm has passed. When the alarm occurs, an alert box is displayed, with the text following the alarm. i.e @01/12/96 Essai d'alarme (Using the European date format) To set a specific time for the alarm, you must follow the alarm date immediately by the alarm time as -HH:MM (hours and minutes in 24 hour clock format). For example '-13:01' will make alarm occur at 13hours 01 mins... Example : @12.01.96-14:30 will alarm on the First December 96, at 14h30 (2:30pm) --------------------------------------------------------------------- If you don't want the Forgot-It icon to appear on the Taskbar when the Forgot-It Window is open, you can remove it. To do this, edit POSTIT.INI (in the Windows directory), and add the following line in the [Post-It] section: ToolWindow=1 When you restart Forgot-It, the Forgot-It Icon will not appear in the Taskbar, and the menu bar on the open Forgot-It window will be a little smaller. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About color selection : Windows doesn't enable all colors for the Edit-Windows...Only non-dithered colors can be used for Edit-Windows whether you are in 16colors or 256colors mode. If you select a bad color for Forgot-It, you will get 2 background colors in the edit window: one where text appears, and another where there is only background... (Difficult to explain : Try by yourself... Right click on the taskbar icon then select 'Colors') You can only select one color scheme for the notepads. You can't select different colors for each of the notepads, if you use more than one. However, Each is color-coded by its task bar icon color and a corresponding colored square at the top left of its window. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Please send comments, suggestions, and questions about Forgot-It to me via e-mail at: MathieuM@mail.dotcom.fr or 100071.2243@compuserve.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TO REGISTER Forgot-IT To register Forgot-It for Windows 95, at the price of U.S.$15, you have 2 possibilities: On CompuServe, GO SWREG, ID # 9571 Or mail: (Cash only. please avoid checks...50% of the money is taken by my bank when converting US$ into French money...) Send payment to this address: Mathieu-MARCIACQ 10 rue Exelmans 78140 VELIZY FRANCE After you register you will receive all updates and revisions to Forgot-It. _______________________________________________________________________________ _ This shareware application can be found in the WINSHARE Forum on CompuServe, an official distribution and support online resource for future updates. Search for FORGOTIT