    My Idea 4.2 Complete Version c 1994 by Peter Neuendorffer
    November 15, 1994. CONTAINS FEATURES FROM REGISTERED VERSIONS.
    Please read the Important Note at the end of this manual.


                                              Organize the Idea         (2)
                                              Menus and Hot Keys        (3)
                                              Text Editing              (4)
    To register this software                 Features                  (6)
    send $22 to:                              Topics                    (7)
    Peter Neuendorffer                        List Menu                 (9)
    1399 Commonwealth Ave  Apt 11             Scratchpad/              (10)
    Allston MA 02134                          Text Files/Menu Colors
    a disk of Peter's software                Closing off Sections: F5 (11)
    catalog (Shareware) will be sent.

    This version contains several new features (from registered versions)
    "move areas" Features (6).  "reminders" Topics (8).
    "search menu" List (9).  "print page" Features (6).

    A hard drive is required.  1 1/2 Meg free space recommended.
    Are you the kind of a person who jots notes on restaurant napkins? You
    are always fixing things and figuring things out? You may like My idea.
    Run MYIDEA DEMO from DOS to see a demonstration. My idea takes you from
    the idea or problem, such as "build a car" or "improve my looks" or
    "great American novel," to describing what is involved, how to do it,
    and where to go for help. When you are done writing, you may be
    surprised at how much you already knew about your problem.

    This software let's you build six areas. You enter a paragraph for
    each area, then set up Topics for the area. You have to complete all
    the Topics in the Area BEFORE you can go on to the next area. I wanted
    to give the software the flavor of a video game where you achieve each
    level. The six areas "Tasks" "Resources" "Data" "Research" "People" and
    "Implementation" are laid out on the main menu from Left to Right on
    the top, then Left to Right on the bottom. You can return to previous
    areas, but cannot proceed to the next area until the current Working
    Area is finished (checked off.) To close a section, press F5. Or Escape
    and return at a later time. So an Area has topics. Once topics are
    named, you can go back and forth between them.

    To install, copy the files to a sub directory on your hard disk. A hard
    disk is required. 700K free disk space required after installation.
    When working on an idea, save it with a file name of your choosing. When
    working on it again, run <Myidea>. Then give the idea name (actually any
    name) and the original filename. You can run <MYIDEA FILENAME> from DOS.

    The software keeps track across sessions. Press Alt-X anywhere to quit
    the program. Press Alt-W from anywhere to return to the main menu. When
    editing text in My idea, Alt-N inserts a blank line, Alt-Y deletes a
    line, and Alt-C clears text to the end of the line. When editing, press
    Alt-B to manipulate the text (all text except questions and answers.)

    My Idea has six areas -TASKS, RESOURCES, DATA/MATERIALS, RESEARCH, PEOPLE,
    and IMPLEMENTATION. Each will have up to 8 topics. For each Topic  write
    a paragraph, ask questions, answer questions, and make notes. Write
    progress notes and overviews. When an area is complete (checked off) you
    can create a report (MAKE REPORT) for the screen, a text file, or the
    printer. The software has three menus: MAIN MENU -The main command.
    AREA MENU  -Work on an area (topics,notes,progress). TOPIC MENU -Work
    on a topic (questions, answers, notes, progress, phrase.)






                        Organize the Idea                           (2)


      To start an idea file, run My idea. Later, when you continue work
      on your idea, run <My idea filename> from  DOS, or just run <MY IDEA>
      and fill in the old idea name (any name will do). Use the correct file
      name for your idea. There is only one file for each idea.

      First, enter a paragraph about your problem-idea. You can edit
      this again later. Once this paragraph is "closed"  with F5, you get
      a menu of AREAS for your idea-problem. The areas are TASKS, RESOURCES,
      DATA/MATERIALS, RESEARCH, PEOPLE, and IMPLEMENTATION.

      Start by completing the TASKS AREA, Then move to the other areas.
      Remember, press Alt-X to end your session. A section is marked
      completed (checked off) by pressing F5 from the section.


      Each AREA is set up identically. Start with TASKS. First, enter
      a paragraph about TASKS. When the paragraph is completed with F5,
      name the topics for the area. relating to TASKS, such as "write
      letters", "interview","get references","take college boards."
      When the topic names for TASKS are completed with F5, the menus
      will be updated with your topic names. When working on a topic, it
      is a good idea to access it from the AREA NAME in the main menu -the
      top (orange) item in each block of the main menu. That way an
      intermediate (Green) menu appears, showing the status of each topic.
      Complete (check off) all four sections for every topic in order
====> to continue on to RESOURCES. The sections are Paragraph, Questions,
      Answers, and Notes. All must be completed from within the topic name.

      When topic names are complete -F5- you work on them. Choose a topic.
      First, write a paragraph, this time about the topic. After pressing F5
      enter Questions about the topic. After each question, press Enter. The
      a short Phrase relating to the question. (F5 to close questions)

      Now, Answer the questions for a topic -you only see the short
      phrases here. Next, enter Notes about the topic. You can re edit
      Questions, Answers and Notes later. You can move back and forth
====> between topics. [To close out topic Notes -F5-, you must choose a
      topic name, then press F5 -even if you have accessed NOTES from
      another menu. You can complete the various topics in any order,
      moving between sections and topics within the Area menu.

====> After completing all four sections for EVERY topic [Paragraphs,
      Questions, Answers, and Notes], continue on to the next area "RESOURCE"
      and so on. If a topic is complete (checked off), choose that topic
      from the MAIN or Area menu. You will see a new menu of questions,
      answers,notes, and progress. You can change answers by choosing
      answers and pressing F2. Edit Notes and Progress as well.
====> You cannot move on to the next area, until you complete the 4 Topic
      sections for every topic in the current work area! You can easily
      move ahead by pressing the F5=Complete key when the prompt appears.













                        Menus and Hot Keys                          (3)
              Main Menu=====> Area Menu=====> Topic Menu

  1    Main Menu: =after you complete opening paragraph.
                                                            ---
             TASKS         RESOURCES         DATA/MATERIALS    |
             topic         topic              ....             |
             topic         topic              ....             |  Areas
                                                               |
             RESEARCH      PEOPLE            IMPLEMENTATION    |
                                                            ---|
             OVERVIEWS     MAIN PARAGRAPH    MAKE REPORT

       Topics and areas are checked off when completed. The working area
       will be shown with a blinking Red arrow. From the main menu, choose an
       AREA NAME (top selection of each AREA block, in orange capitals) to
       get to the Area menu. Choose a topic to bypass the Area menu.

   2   Area Menu:      topic       (Choose a topic to work on.)
                       topic
                       Notes       (all notes for the area)
                       Progress    (all progress  for the area)

      The status (checked off) of each topic will be shown. (see
      "Completing Topics" section of this manual). If the area is
      all checked off, the words "Area Complete" are displayed.

  3   Topic menu:     Questions    (for 1 topic)
                      Answers           "
                      Notes             "
                      Progress          "
                      phrase            "
                      File              "

      --------------------   HOT  KEYS     ------------------------------
      |  Hot Key     Where                       What it's for:         |
      |                                                                 |
      |  Alt X       anywhere                   -Quit the program       |
      |  Alt W       anywhere                   -Go to the main menu    |
      |  F5          when prompted              -Close out text sections|
      |  Alt E       when text shown            -Edit text sections     |
      |  F2            "    "    "                 "    "     "         |
      |  Alt B       when editing text          -Block Edit Commands    |
      |  From Menu bars:                                                |
      |  Alt S       Main,Area,Topic menus      -Scratchpad             |
      |  Alt L         "    "   "               -List Menu (see below)  |
      |  Alt H         "    "   "               -Help (this manual)     |
      |  Alt E            Area,Topic menus      -Edit paragraph         |
      |  Alt T            Area menu             -Topics changes         |
      |  Alt A       Main menu                  -Rename area            |
      |  Alt I       Main menu                  -Rename idea            |
      |  Alt R       Topic menu                 -Add reminder           |
      -------------------------------------------------------------------
      Sometimee special characters next to a topic name will appear
      This always indicates a "completed" topic:
        -------------
          checkmark             topic is completed
        ! exclamation point     topic currently has a reminder
        * star                  topic currently has an attached text file.
          star on red (or white) background: both reminder and text file.






                        Text Editing                                (4)


When entering in questions and answers, you must press ENTER to make the data
stick, before escaping. All other text (any text black over 3 lines) acts
differently- you get what you type, by pressing an Escape. Escape takes you
out of any section. F5 is reserved for closing out an entire section and move
on. Do not use it for just exiting. F5 is reserved for saying "I'm all done
with this section."

To edit the main paragraphs appearing at the bottom of an Area Menu
screen, or Topic Menu screen, select Alt-E  (Edit from the top menu bar).

To re edit text, find it. The screen should say "F2 to Edit Paragraph"
or "F2 to Edit Notes". Press F2 or Alt-E to edit the paragraph,then Escape
to get out. When editing paragraphs, use the Alt-N combination to insert a
blank line, Alt-Y to delete a line, Alt-C to clear text to the end of line.
Alt-U will restore any text (other than questions or answers) to where
it was when you began editing the text section. You may type to the end of
the line and the text will automatically wrap for the whole text area. You
may insert text in the middle of a line and it will wrap. You may position
the cursor at the end of a line, press Delete, and all the words that fit
from the next line will be moved back to the current line.


Commands when Editing text: (press F2 when asked) (escape to leave edit mode

     Alt-U:  Undo all the changes since you entered the screen.
     Alt-C:  Clear the current line from the cursor to the end of the line.
     Alt-N:  Insert a blank line at the cursor.
     Alt-Y:  Delete the line at the cursor.
     Home :  Go to top of text area.
     End  :  Go to next available line at bottom.
     Alt-B:  Text block editing commands. This brings up a menu.
             Block commands apply to all text except Questions and Answers.

             - Sort Text:  Sort selected lines of text.
             - Copy Text:  Copy selected lines of text to the clipboard.
             - Cut  Text:  Delete selected lines and put in clipboard.
             - Paste Text: Paste lines of text from the clipboard.
             - Match Text: Find matches between current text and other topics
--------------------------------------------------------------------------


Sort:         Paragraphs, overviews,notes, progress may be sorted. When
editing, Press F2 if necessary. Then select the beginning line to sort (up
and down arrows.) Press F7. Then select "Sort Text" from the menu. Then
mark multiple lines (down/up arrow keys.) And Press Enter. Now move this
block of lines up or down, and press Enter again.


Copy: When editing, Press F2 if necessary. Then select the beginning line to
sort (up down arrows.) Press F7, then select "Copy Text" from the menu. Then
mark multiple lines (down/up arrow keys) and Press Enter to copy the text.


Cut: When editing, Press F2 if necessary. Then select the beginning line to
sort (up down arrows.) Press F7, then select "Cut Text" from the menu. Then
mark multiple lines (down/up arrow keys) and Press Enter to cut the text.
The text is in the clipboard for future pasting.






                        Text Editing continued                      (5)

Paste: When editing, Press F2 if necessary. Then press F7, and select
the "Paste Text" option. Press Enter, and the current text in the clipboard
will be pasted after the last line of the current text area, as it fits.



Match: This option does not change any data. It analyzes the current text
paragraph and comes up with a "fuzzy" match on one or more topic names from
your idea. You may then choose the topic name to move to that topic. (Note
that the list of topics used in this search only consists of topics from are
in the current work area, or from areas before the current work area.) If the
topic you choose is incomplete, it will take you to the current working
section (paragraph, questions, etc.) for that topic.



Highlight Text:

       Choose words that you wish to appear highlighted in color
       throughout the current idea. The information on this is saved
       in each idea data file. Access Text highlight from any text area.
       This is part of the block commands. Enter edit mode for a text
       area -you may have to press -F2. Then press Alt-B and choose
       Highlight Text.

       You get a menu:
                Add Word:    enter a word you wish to be highlight.
                Delete Word: enter a word you wish NOT to be highlighted.
                Clear All:   clear all highlighted words.
                Grayscalse:  toggle off/on. Grayscale set to ON is
                             suitable for a grayscale monocrhome system.

       If you are using a system with a color card and gray scale
       monitor, you may want to toggle on Gray scale. To return
       to color for highlighting, toggle Gray scale off again.
       Words are highlighted in different colors depending on the
       length of the word to highlight. Monochrome (no color card)
       systems display the highlighted words as underlined.
       To temporarily disable color highlighting for a session, run
       MY IDEA from the DOS command line with the switch /h.





    -  Hide program prompts: for experienced users only.     Shift-Tab

       This option is only for a user who is VERY experienced with
       this software. From anywhere in the program, you may press
       Shift-Tab to hide program prompts. This change is not saved
       for another session. Once the screen updates fully, the
       prompts will be hidden (such as "press F2 to Edit" and most
       other prompts that tend to clutter the screen.) To enable the
       prompts again, press Shift-Tab again. To see the current
       status of this hiding of prompts, press Alt-W from any where
       and then Escape to see the opening screen.








                        Features                                    (6)

Writing sections: From the Main menu, you may write Overviews of the main IDEA
        and of each AREA (Tasks, Resources, Data/Materials, Research, People
        and Implementation). You edit notes, or write progress notes.

Main Menu:  From the main menu, you may jet to any area or topic.  Use up,
        down,right, and left arrows to select an area or topic (if there are
        topics). Then press Enter to go to that area or topic. It is best
        when working your way through writing areas and topics to select
        from the first item of each AREA at the main menu, so you can see
        your progress  (check marks.)  Selecting a topic from the main menu
        instantly takes you to a topic, whatever it's status. But selecting
        an AREA name first will bring a menu showing the topics' status.

Make Report:  From the main menu you may create a report of the entire idea.
        This is generated automatically. Choose "Make Report". Decide
        whether to send the report to the screen, to a text file, or to
        the printer. Then select an Area from the menu, or all areas. The new
        menu is to choose selected sections to include in your report:
        paragraphs, questions/answers, notes, progress, and overviews. Just
        press enter (====OK===) to select all, or move the highlight bar to
        section and press SPACE BAR to toggle it on/off. (* means on .) Cancel
        will clear all the sections. Press Enter when done. If sent the report
        to the screen: use Alt-S to search for a word or phrase, and Alt-L
        to search for the next occurrence. Page Up and Page Down to move
        through the pages. Control-Page-Down goes to the last page, and
        Control-Page-Up returns to the first page. The report reflects the
        current information about your idea. If you change the information,
        future reports have your new information.
  ====> If you are reading a Report on your display screen that was generated
        from the main menu MAKE REPORT,  at any time you may press F2. Move
        the shade bar up and down with the up and down arrows. Press Enter,
        and you will be returned to the main program, but IN THE SECTION
        that that text comes from, whether paragraphs, questions, answers,
        notes, progress, or overview. You will now be out of the report.
        Remember Alt-W, or repeated escapes returns you to the main menu.

Renaming Areas: You can rename areas. Select an area (such as TASKS)
        from the MAIN MENU (orange on blue). Highlight the area name,
        the top (orange) bar for each area. Now press F10. Type in the
        new area name and press enter. Please note: in order to make
        things compatible with the first version of My idea -1.0-
        version 1.0 will display the original "factory" names. But this
        version will always display your new area names.

Moving Areas: (new) You can move an entire area to another place in the main
       menu. This sort will affect the Make Report order of the areas, as well
       as the order of searches. Select an Area that has topics from the Main
       Menu. Then press Alt-M, and sort the area name with the left and right
       arrow keys. Press Enter to commit to the change, or Escape to cancel.
       Note you cannot sort past an area that has no topics. Care should be
       taken if there is an incomplete area, as the placement of the Working
       Area could change. Areas are completed in order top row first, left
       to right, then bottom row left to right as the area names appear on the
       main menu. An area to the "right" (or bottom) of a working area may not
       be worked on until the working area is first checked off.
Renaming the Idea: Press Alt-R from the Main Menu to rename the Idea.
Print Page: (in addition to printing reports). From anywhere in the
      program you can print a page by pressing Alt-P. Then enter a heading
      if desired, and select the top line to start printing the page.
      If you wish to print all the way to the bottom of the page, you do
      not have to select the bottom print line.



                        Topic Options                                (7)

               Rename, Sort, Add, Delete. Move, Phrase



Renaming Topics: You can rename topics. Select an area (such as TASKS)
        from the main menu (orange top bar) PRESS ENTER) Now Highlight
        the topic name you wish to rename. Press Alt-T and choose
        Rename Topic from the menu. Type in the new name, and press enter,
        or Escape to cancel. Very importantly, this will NOT move any data
        around. If you want to sort topics, sort them as described below.
        It's a good idea to use a new name that means about the same as
        the old one -now ALL the titles for this topic will have your new
        name.



Sorting topic names:  You can sort the order of a topic in an area menu.
        Select an area from the Main Menu (orange top bar on main menu).
        Highlight a topic to sort in the area menu, and press F10 (or
        Alt-T.) Then choose Sort Topic from the menu. Then move the
        topic name with up or down arrow keys, and then press Enter.





Add Topics: You can add a new topic to an area. The only restriction
       is that the new area must have at least one topic already.
       Press F10 (or Alt-T) from the Area Menu (green), and choose
       Add Topic. Now enter in the name of the new topic. If their are
       already eight topics in the menu, the software will refuse to
       add a new one.

       Please note, that adding a topic can change the Current Working
       Area, as the new topic is incomplete (not checked off.)




Delete Topics: You can delete a topic from an area. Care must be taken
       not to delete large volumes of data, as once the topic name is
       deleted, it's data no longer exists. Choose an Area (enter), then
       press F10 (or Alt-T.) Then choose Delete Topic from the menu.
       Answer "Y", Enter, "Y" to get past the safety screens. The order
       of the Working Area may be different in the Main Menu, as once
       an incomplete topic is deleted, it may allow the Area to be checked
       off as complete. If the topic to delete is the only one on the
       Area's list, the software will not let you delete it.
















                        Topic Options continued                  (8)

Move Topics: You can move a topic, with all it's data to a different
       area. The topic cannot be the only one on the Area list. Choose
       an Area Menu (enter) and press F10 (or Alt-T). Now choose Move
       Topic from the menu. Now choose the new area from the next menu,
       and press enter.

       I hope you enjoy using My idea and register it soon. For product
       support, call Peter Neuendorffer at 617-254-2213 (voice).


Topic Phrases:
      This option allows you to enter in a short catch phrase for any
      topic. Access this option from the Topic Menu. Select "phrase" from
      the Topic Menu (magenta.) Enter a phrase. This phrase will only be
      used on the topic menu display screen. For example, if the topic was
      "buy truck" you might enter in "See the USA with a Tom Truck" for
      the topic phrase. To remove a phrase, select the phrase and enter
      in the word     none    alone on the line.


 Analysis of how much text is entered

       This option will now tell you at any time how much text is
       entered in the various sections and topics of an Area.
       Select an Area menu by pressing enter on one the Top bar of
       the first six areas in the Main Menu. If the area is beyond
       your working area, you will not be able to access the Area
       Menu at this time.

       Once the Area menu is displayed, press Alt-T as if you were
       going to edit the topic names. However, a new item on the
       Topic Change menu is now present. Choose "Analyze the topics," and
       press Enter. You will see (after a few seconds) a table showing
       how many lines of text are entered in for each section and topic
       in your area. Note the numbers for questions and answers refer
       to the number of questions or answers. The numbers for the other
       items refer to how many total lines of text excluding blank lines
       are entered in. This table is always current.

       Text = the topic paragraph
       ?    =     topic questions
       Ans  =     topic answers
       Note =     topic notes
       Prog =     topic progress notes

 Reminder blurbs

      You can add a pop up reminder to any topic that is completed with
      it's own menu. Select the Topic so the topic menu appears. Then
      press Alt-R (Reminder is mentioned on the menu bar). Enter in a
      reminder phrase. Next time the topic is accessed, the reminder will
      pop up. Press Enter or Escape to pop it off, or "D" to delete the
      reminder entirely. When a topic name has a reminder, a "!" exclamation
      point next to it in a menu, this means the topic currently has a
      reminder. Also, a '*' next to name (indicating there is an attached
      file) that is on a red (or white in monocrhome) square indicates the
      topic currently has a reminder.







                      List Menu                                   (9)



      - Search                         You get to this List menu by
      - Address book                   pressing Alt-L from any Main, Area
      - To Do List                     or Topic menu. Make sure you are
      - Go to Topic                    not in F2 Edit mode if there is a
      - Change Menu Colors             paragraph displayed.

      -Search:
       Enter a word or phrase to search your Idea for. Then press Enter,
       and the entire idea will be searched up to and including the current
       Work Area. Or you may choose a section such as "paragraphs" to
       search. With each match, the screen will show the section containing
       your search request. To continue on, press Enter. To stop searching,
       press Escape. To jump to the live data area shown on the screen,
       press F2. Once you are in the live data area, you can edit the
       information and move about the program as usual.

      -Address book:
               -Display list: see your address and phone list. Page
                through the list with PgeUp PgeDn. Press Escape to exit.
               -Edit item: Add or edit an item in your address list.
               -Delete item: Delete an item from your address list.
               The address list, unlike all other data in My Idea, is
               stored only once, and is stored in your .EXE file. THis
               means that whatever idea you are working on, you will
               have the same address list. The address list holds up
               to 200 items.
               -----------------------------------------------------
               Upgrade information for Address Book: Read this paragraph
               only if you have been using an address book already in the
               Unregistered Version 3.0 of MyIdea, and wish to transfer
               your addresses to your new registered copy. Change to the
               directory containing the old UNREGISTERED Myidea.exe. If
               in the unlikely coincidence a file there is named "mmm.mmm",
               move it elsewhere. Now run the UNREGISTERED Myidea.exe as
               MYIDEA /DL   A file will appear in the current directory
               named "mmm.mmm". Move this file to REGISTERED Myidea.exe
               directory. Move to this new directory. Run the REGISTERED
               Myidea.exe as MYIDEA /UL    The "mmm.mmm" will be deleted,
               and the address book has been transferred to the registered
               copy. If you get a box saying "file not found" then the
               old copy is not version 3.0 or later.
               --------------------------------------------------

      -To Do List:
               There is a seperate To Do list for each idea you work on.
               Done items are displayed in green, and To Do Items are in
               red (or white background if monochrome.) Enter in an Item
               that is yet to be done in the To Do section. Enter in an
               Item that is done already in the Done section. To toggle
               an item between Done and Not Done, select the item with the
               cursor, and press Tab. This is understood by trying it out.

      -Go To Topic:
              You may enter in a topic name from your current idea,
              and the software will jump to that topic. Only topics
              from completed areas will be allowed here.
      -Change Menu Colors
              This is described in the New Features section below.




                      Scratchpad/ Textfiles/ Menu colors        (10)



     - The Scratchpad:          Alt-S from Main, Area, Topic menus.

       You now have a half page to make general notes. This page
       is seperate for every idea file you start. This page functions
       just like any text section, except that it is not attached to any
       particular topic or area. To get to the Scratcpad, you must be
       at either the Main Menu, and Area Menu, or any Topic Menu.
       Make sure that you are not in text edit mode (where the cursor
       shows in the paragraph below). Then press Alt-S. The Scratcpad
       should appeaer. You can now edit text in the Scratchpad and can
       copy, cut, paste and undo. To exit the scratchpad, press
       Escape. There is a single scratchpad for each entire idea.





     - Text file attachments.               "FILE" from Topic menus
       You can now install text files in any topic menu or at the main
       menu. To access the textfile option from the main menu, select
       the bottom right item marked TEXTFILE (Enter). To access the
       text file attachment for any topic, select the topic (it must
       be checked off) and access the new "File" menu selection in
       the topic menu (below Questions, Answers and Notes).
       All text file attachments function in the same way. To attach
       a text file, choose "set file name" after choosing the File
       option from a Topic Menu (or TEXTFILE from the main menu). Now
       enter in a full path name for a text file on your system. To
       display the file, choose View File from the menu. To remove
       an attachment, simply enter the word     none    alone in the
       "set file name" option. You may choose "Directory" to peruse
       the file names on your system. When you find a file to attach,
       press Enter on the name. Pressing Enter on a directory name
       will switch to that directory listing, and pressing Enter on
       the name ".." will movee up one level in the DOS directory
       structure. You may copy text out of a textt file that is
       displayed by displaying the file and choosing Alt-B and copy
       the text as described in Text Copy above.





    -  Change menu colors             Alt-L from Main, Area, Topic menus

       You can now change the colors of most of the menus.
       Access the "List" menu by pressing Alt-L from either the
       Main, an Area, or any Topic menu. (Make sure you are not in edit
       mode for the paragraph below -when the cursor is blinking. If
       so, press escape once.) Select "Change menu colors" from the
       List menu. Choose a color for the Area, the Topic, and for
       Other menus. To skip changing a menu, choose Finished, or Escape.
       This information is stored in the .EXE itself, so there are
       never any additional data files to contend with. These colors
       remain for ALL ideas, until you change the colors again.







                      Important Note                              (11)

      Closing off Sections:

      When you fill in Topics by writing paragraphs, questions, answers and
      notes, you close off each of those sections with F5. In order to "close"
      the Notes section, you access Notes by Pressing ENTER on a Topic name,
      then pressing F5. When closing off notes, do NOT access notes from a
      menu item named "notes."

      Thus, say, to complete a topic "practicing the piano", you press enter
      on "practicing the piano", enter a paragraph, close the paragraph
      with F5, enter questions, close with F5, enter in answers, close
      answers with F5. To Close off Notes: PRESS ENTER ON THE TOPIC NAME
      "practicing the piano" and enter in Notes from there. Then Press F5
      from there. As you "close" each section, a check mark appears next to
      topic name in the (green) Area Menu. You get this Area Menu when you
      select an Area Name from a top bar in the main menu (orange on blue).





Short Cut:
      You may now add additional questions to a topic from the Area/Topic
      /Questions option, by choosing F2 and pressing Enter to get past
      the last question. THis means that you can press F5 after each
      section in a topic (paragraph, questions, answers, notes) is
      partially done, and go back to add more later. That way you
      can proceed through each Area.



































