During the process of translation many notes will be made that concern the project.
To make a new project note press Ctrl+N.
To edit an existing project note click on the blue reference(s) for that note.
When creating a new note or editing an existing one, the Project Notes Area splits up into two. The left side of this is called the Project Notes Text Area and the right side is the Project Notes Tools Area.
Project notes can be displayed in various ways and with various selections. See the "View" menu.
Project notes are stored in a database, and are independent of any Bible text. That is, whichever project is opened or closed, the notes remain the same.
Project notes can be deleted by placing the cursor in the blue reference(s) of a note, and pressing the Delete key. There is also an entry in the menu for this. When several notes have been selected, pressing Delete deletes them all. Some keyboard shortcuts help while editing notes. An example will show how: The user edits the text of a project. To make a new note, he presses Ctrl+N. He types some text in the note. If he wishes to change to category of the note, he presses Alt+A, then Enter to open the list of categories, then he makes a selection with Up Arrow or Down Arrow and presses Enter to confirm the selection. If he wishes to add some references, he pressed Alt+R and types some references. Pressing Ctrl+F5 (or twice Shift+Tab) takes him back to the area to type the note in. Alt+O saves the note, and takes the user back to where he was editing the text.
Project notes can be exported into some formats.
* Bibledit Notes version 3. This is the format used by the current version of Bibledit. In other words, notes exported through this option can be imported in Bibledit.
* ScriptureNotes version 2.0. Notes exported in this format can be imported by Translation Notes Editor 6.0.
To see how these formats looks, just export some text and open the exported text in a text editor.
When a project note is being edited, the creator of the note can be retrieved through menu View / More information on current note. Other information about this note is visible there as well, like the date it was created, and when it was edited.
Menu / Edit / Find in Project notes (Alt+E, N) allows to do Simple searches in the Project Notes Area. The results (notes containing the search text) are shown in the Project Notes Area.
This tool searches exacty (except case sensitive) for the sequence of characters entered into the "Search for" box, punctuation marks and spaces included. Case sensitive can be switched on or off.
The Find tool in the Notes Area uses the same dialog as Find (simple).
Example: Searching for 'Bible' shows all the notes (in the Project Notes Area) with the word: Bible.
Project notes usually have one reference. This is the one for which the note was created. But additional references can be added as well.
These references are shown attached to each note in the Project Notes Area.
There are two ways to get these notes into the Reference Area.
1. Open a note to edit it. In the menu choose Edit - Get references from project note.
2. Ctrl-Click on the blue references for a note.
As a result the references will be loaded in the Reference Area. Once there they can be activated and the text belonging to that reference will appear in the Text Area.