THINK.IT for the Model 100 ========================== Club 100 Library - 415/939-1246 BBS, 937-5039 NEWSLETTER, 932-8856 VOICE THINK.IT is an outline processor for the Model 100 computer. It is similar to programs such as ThinkTank for the IBM or IDEA! for the Model 100. THINK.IT is copyright (C) 1985 by Larry Groebe. Permission is granted to make and pass along additional copies of the program as long as line 0 is kept intact. THINK.IT is distributed as "shareware"- if you like it and would like to receive the full documentation (currently a growing 16+ page manual) and future updates (and I guarantee there will be updates since the version here still has a few bugs) please send a donation ($20 or more would be wonderful) to: Larry Groebe 6001 Skillman #362 Dallas TX 75231 :::BRIEF OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS::: I say brief, because this is a complex program. This instruction file is 7K, yet has to hurry over the features. Hopefully, you will find THINK.IT's action to be nearly intuitive, and after a little experimentation, quite easy to understand. THINK.IT uses not quite 6K, and requires at least 2K free to run. Here's a typical outline THINK.IT can create. It keeps track of all the various levels and lets you manipulate them easily. You have a large amount of control over the final form of it, too: line-spacing, numbering, print width, etc... +AMAZING SAMPLE OUTLINE +Why THINK.IT is a nice program. -Fairly small size. -Runs faster than competition. -Cheaper too! +Why Larry Groebe is a nice guy. -He worked months on the program. +Limitations of THINK.IT +250 chars each idea. -No paragraphs either. -200 ideas maximum. Upon running THINK.IT you will asked for a filename. If you are beginning a new outline, press ENTER. When you exit the program you will be asked for a filename under which to save the outline. Then in future sessions use this name at the opening screen. Initially the outline consists of only a single item. Additional items in the outline can be added at the same level as the topic the cursor is resting on by pressing ENTER, or as sub-headings of the topic under the cursor by pressing TAB. Each opens space for the new outline item, and the latter automatically indents inward from the previous item. Outline entries can be up to 250 characters long. As you reach the right edge of the screen, the entry will scroll to make room for further text. Editing is similar to TEXT- Using the cursor keys, plus the shift and control keys will allow you to move quickly from one end of the entry to the other. When the item is complete, pressing ENTER exits the editing mode. You move about the outline with the vertical cursor keys. The current item will be highlighted in reverse video, indented to indicate where in the outline it rests. Again, it works much like TEXT, with shift- and control- arrow keys moving you in larger increments. When you reach the bottom or top of the screen the display will scroll to reveal more entries. The neat part is this: you can "hide" less important entries, displaying only the amount of detail you wish by pressing the left cursor key. Each time you do so, the lowest visible level of entries in the outline will be hidden. Pressing the right-arrow will reveal again that hidden level. Shift-left and Shift-right will collapse the outline to its most major points and expand it to cover all entries, respectively. You thus have lots of control over your material. The various function keys perform the functions they indicate: FIND, VIEW, PRINT, CUT, COPY, MENU. Find allows you to type in a word or phrase to search for, and will locate that within the outline. View changes your "view" of the outline. View1 displays ALL items on screen from the top level to the lowest one selected by the left-and-right arrows. View2 displays only items on the same level, and hides those both below AND above. To see the subtopics of an outline entry in View 2, place the cursor on the desired entry and press the right arrow. That entry will vanish and it's subentries (and no other parts of the outline) will appear. To return to the parent entry, press the left arrow. PRINT allows you to output your outline to a printer or to a ram file for further editing via TEXT. You must answer questions about the output device, the line spacing, the amount of indentatoin, whether outline numbers should be included, and the width of output. (a width of 0 is recommended when "printing" to RAM.) CUT and COPY excise or copy entire collections of thoughts. When you press one of these, the thought at the cursor, - and ALL sub-thoughts 'underneath' it - will be placed in a buffer. Then, after using ENTER or TAB to start a new entry, press PASTE, and ALL thoughts AND subthoughts will be placed at that location in the outline. If you only wish to cut a single entry, but not it's sub-entries, use the SHIFT-DEL key. (NOTE- once an entry has been PASTED, it is removed from the buffer and cannot be pasted again). Pressing F8 exits THINK.IT. The file will be saved at this time. Pressing SHIFT-F8 will exit w/o saving the outline. Pressing the + key will move all items and sub-items under the cursor UP a level in importance. You will see the indentation level change. Conversely, pressing - will drop items down a level in the outline. ===== KEY SUMMARY ===== CURSOR KEYS Up, Down --Moves between outline items Shifted --Moves screenful of items CTRLed --Moves to first or last item. Left, Right --Collapses or expands outline one level. Shifted --Collapses or expands outline to max or min. CTRLed --Scrolls long entry under cursor to reveal more. ADDING OUTLINE ITEMS Enter --Begins editing new thought after current one, same level. Tab --Begins editing new thought after current one, next level. Space --Allows editing of existing thought. IN EDITING MODE Esc --Erases text from an entry. PASTE --Pastes any cut or copied entries beginning at current loaction. CODE-c --Converts numeric expression to a number. (EG: SIN(1)/3 gets replaced by the number .2804...) left and right arrows, shifts and CTRLS, DEL, BKSP work as in TEXT during edit. Vertical arrow or ENTER quits EDIT. OTHER FUNCTIONS + key -- Raises cursor item and all following items up a level. - key -- Lowers cursor item and all that follow down a level. F1 -- FIND. Enter text (ESC clears existing) and search for it. F2 -- Toggles between View1 and 2. F4 -- Brings up Print routine. F5 -- COPYs idea and subideas to paste buffer. F6 -- CUTs idea and subideas from outline and places in buffer. DEL -- Cuts only single idea from outline. Any subideas are promoted a level. F8 -- Exits to MENU & saves outline SHIFT-F8- Exits w/o saving outline.