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	Memento the Freeware Post-It Notes program
	Memento is for making jottings on coloured post-it style notes that sit on your screen. They can be hidden as required or reduced to a slim title bar that you drag out of the way of your work. You can change the colour and transparency of each note. Contents can be copied and pasted into other documents. They are saved automatically and are available for as long as you wish. This Freeware program was written by Tim Browse.

Memento's icon sits on the system tray (bottom right of screen) as a yellow page with a bottom corner curled up.
To create a new note, double-click on the icon.
To write the note, check that the text cursor is blinking in the text box and just start typing.
Tip! – You can only have one window active at any time. So if your underlying program is the active one, then you will have to click in the Memento note to activate it. Likewise click in your other program when you want to return to it.
The position of a note can be altered by dragging it by its Title bar.
The size of a note can be changed by dragging any of its sides or corners.
A vertical scroll bar appears when your note becomes larger than its text frame.
The colour of a note can be changed by right-clicking on the title bar and selecting one of the seven colour patches.
The transparency can be changed (in Windows XP and Vista) to let you to view more or less of the underlying program’s display. To do this, right-click on Memento’s title bar and select Transparency (None, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%).
To hide a note, click on the "X" on its title bar. The note will be saved as it is hidden.
Tip! – To force a note to be saved while it remains on screen, right-click on the system tray icon and select Save Now.
To open an existing note click on the Memento icon on the system tray. From the pop-up menu, click on the note you require.
Tip! – The horizontal line across the pop-up menu separates the notes currently on screen (below the line) from those that are currently hidden (above the line).
To open all the notes that are on file, select Show All.
To hide all the notes that are on screen, right click on the icon and select Hide All.
Naming a Note
The first line of your note becomes its title. So always make the first line suitable (short and meaningful). Press Enter at the end of the title before you start typing the body of the note.

The Title Bar
When a new note is created, its title bar shows the current date and time.
This continues to be displayed whenever the note is open on screen,
with the title remaining as the first line in the text area.
The time line does not change, but remains set at the time of creation of the note.

When the note is rolled up into its title bar, the date/time is replaced by the title.

Controlling the space your note uses on screen
- Drag the note around the screen so that it doesn't cover other stuff that you want to see.
- Change the size of the note by dragging its sides or corners.
- Hide the note by clicking on the "X" on its title bar.
- Roll up the note into its title bar. Do this by double-clicking on the title bar.
  Then drag the title bar out of the way of your other work.
  Tip! – You can shorten the title bar by clicking and dragging either end.
- Unroll the note by double-clicking again on the title bar.

Find
Memento can search through a note and find any word or group of characters you choose.
Right-click on the title bar and select Find.

Cut, Copy and Paste

You can cut, copy and paste text from one part of a Memento note to another, or from one Memento note to another note.
You can cut, copy and paste between Memento and any other program that deals with text.
When the text is copied from a document and pasted into Memento, only the text is transferred, not any of its formatting (font, size, colour, style).
To cut or copy text from a Memento note, use the mouse to highlight the required text. Release the mouse button and right-click. From the drop-down menu click on Cut or Copy.
To paste text into a Memento note, first copy the text from its source.
Click in the Memento note at the point where the text is to be inserted. Right-click and select Paste.

Tip! – Keystrokes may be used instead of using the right-click menu.	Select All	Ctrl+A
	Cut	Ctrl+X
	Copy	Ctrl+C
	Paste	Ctrl+V
	Undo	Ctrl+Z
	Find	Ctrl+F
	Open a new note	Ctrl+Alt+N
	Insert date and time	F5
	Display full screen	Alt+Enter
	Cancel full screen	Esc
	Hide note	Esc
	Change colour of note	Alt + mouse wheel
	Resize note	Alt + arrow keys

Delete a note
To delete a note, first have it open on screen.
Right-click on the title bar and select Delete note and confirm this by clicking on Yes when asked.

Tips and warnings!

Once a note is deleted you can't get it back.
The confirmation dialog box shows a square in front of "Don't ask me this again."
If you click in this box, from then on it is sudden death whenever you select Delete note.
There will be no future opportunity to back off by choosing No from the dialog box, unless you go to the Options menu and reset "Prompt for confirmation when deleting notes".

Options
To see the list of options that are set when you installed Memento, right-click on the Memento icon and select Options.

Green ticks indicate each option that is set, and you can click to unset or reset each of these.

You can change the hot key to open a new note, or switch it off.

If you have previously de-activated the "Confirm deletion" dialog box, here is where you can restore it.

Don't tick the Google option unless you are very keen to use its search facilities.

You can choose whether the button will hide the note (the usual setting) or delete it permanently.

Download
Click here to visit the Memento website and download this free program.
How to Uninstall Memento

If you decide to uninstall memento from your computer, you must first ensure that Memento is not currently running. Look to see whether the Memento icon is in the system tray at the right hand end of the Windows Task Bar. If it is there, right-click on it and select Exit.

Next, click on Start » Control Panel, and double-click on Add or Remove Programs.

When the list appears, scroll down to click on "Memento" and double-click on the Change/Remove button on that item.

Follow on-screen instructions to uninstall the program.

The Notes file, "Memento.Notes" will remain in the My Documents folder. If you no longer require the notes, delete the file.
You can actually open and read the notes using NotePad or WordPad or any other text editor. All messages appear in a single continuous ribbon of text.
They can be cut and pasted into any word processing or text editing program.

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