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When you start PNotes it places itself into system tray and allows you to interact with it either by right-click on its icon nticon and choosing one of pop-up menu items, or by using your own hot keys.

 

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Available pop-up menu commands are:

New Note - creates new note.
Load Note - loads note from .pnote file.
New Note From Clipboard - creates new note and pastes clipboard's content into it.
Diary - shows list of Diary "pages".
Preferences - brings up Preferences dialog.
Control Panel - brings up PNotes Control Panel window.
Hot Keys - brings up Hot Keys dialog.
Show/Hide - shows/hides notes by several criterions.
Save All - saves all notes.
Backup/synchronization - allows to perform full backup, restore from full backup and synchronize notes local or via FTP.
Reload All - reloads all currently visible notes
Docking (all notes) - allows you to dock all visible notes to any side of screen or undock them.
Switch On (All Notes) - applies high priority, read-only mode, complete mark, roll status and always-on-top status to all notes.
Switch Off (All Notes) - removes high priority, read-only mode, complete mark, roll status and always-on-top status to all notes.
Search - allows to choose one of search options: Search In Notes, Search by Tags, Search By Date.
Favorites - shows your favorites notes.
Password - creates, changes or removes program password.
Lock Program - so-called "boss-key", allows you to hide all program windows quickly by one click or one hot-key pressing (recommended). To use this function you should protect the program with password.
Run - runs external program.
Language - allows you to change the user interface language.
Help - brings up help window or redirects you to online help page, accordingly to your settings.
About - brings up about dialog.
Support PNotes Project - Thankfulness is not a sin :)
PNotes Homepage - redirects you to pnotes.sourceforge.net
Exit - ends program.