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Sticky Notes Online Google Desktop Gadget ver 1.0.0.1
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Themes
Currently no new themes are available
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The Sticky Notes Online Gadget for Google Desktop enables the user to
permanently save their notes. Even if the Sticky Notes Online Gadget is removed, the
user can reinstall the gadget and login to retrieve her/his notes again.
Once the user logs in, the user doesnt need to log back in on computer
restarts unless the user explicitly logs off
- Installing
If the gadget is installed as a download from SharPra.com or the Google Desktop Gadgets Page,
it will directly install in the Google Desktop Sidebar, however if the user deletes and then wishes to reinstall
the gadget, the user can find the gadget listed in the List of Recently Used Sidebar Gadgets.
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- Welcome Message
When the gadget is first installed the user is presented with the following one-time Welcome Message
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- Notes Window
The Main Notes Window where the user can write notes is shown below
On moving the mouse out of the notes gadget the Login/Register links, the note position
and all the add, delete, previous, next buttons are hidden as shown below
On undocking (moving the gadget outside the Sidebar), the Notes Gadget
becomes bigger in size as shown below
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- Buttons
The buttons at the bottom allow the user to do the following:-
ADD - Add a new note. (Maximum of ten).
DELETE - Delete the current Note (Not allowed when the user has a single note).
PREVIOUS - Moves to the previous Note. (Not Allowed when the user is at the first note).
NEXT - Moves to the next Note. (Not Allowed when the user is at the last note).
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- Register
On initially installing the gadget it works in the offline mode i.e. Notes written will be saved
only on your local computer. To Permanently save notes. The user need to Register/Login,
which enables the Notes to be saved permanantly on the Notes Server. Clicking the register link brings out
the Register Window as shown below.
The user then fills the required fields
On clicking the 'Click User' button, the Notes Gadget shows up with the 'Logged In' message with a green button.
At this point any Notes written in the gadget will be permanently saved, even if you delete the gadget and re-install it,
or Log Off and Login back again your notes will be saved.
Moreover the notes written after logging in can be accessed (provided the correct login) by all other Sticky Notes Online clients,
on other computers and web browsers
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- Log Off
If the user clicks the green button when logged in, a window will appear asking the user if she/he wants to log off
as show below
On clicking 'Continue Offline' the Notes Gadget reverts to start saving Notes locally, these changes cannot be accessed by other clients.
The below image shows changes made locally.
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- Login
If the user has already registered and either decides to log off and re-login or installs the
Sticky Notes Online Gadget on a different computer. The user can login to retrieve all her/his Notes by clicking the login link.
- Login - Options
If the user has entered notes while working offline (not logged in), on clicking the login button,
the Notes Gadget verifies that different notes exist on the server and gives the user the following option.
- If the User clicks Continue Offline, the user will remain offline (not logged in).
- If the User clicks 'Update Notes with Server Data' - The notes written by the user in offline mode
will be replaced by the ones saved on the server.
- If the User clicks 'Update Notes with Current Data' - The notes on the server will be replaced by the
notes currently entered by the gadget.
Below we see that the user has selected 'Update Notes with Current Data', which logs the user in
and the notes on the server have been replaced by the users current notes. (Thus all other clients,
E.g. the IGoogle client, which display the users Notes will now see the new Notes.
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- Settings
Clicking the Options Menu as shown below brings up the settings panel.
The Settings enable the user to change the current theme, font style and font size.
The Slider Speed setting is used to change the speed at which the gadget will display the next/previous note
on clicking the next/previous buttons.
The Check If Server...Sync Settings are explained in the next section
Below we show an example of the user making changes to the theme and font settings.
On clicking Ok the Notes Gadget will be displayed as below
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- Sync Settings
When the user is logged in the Google Desktop Sticky Notes Online Gadget on a computer, and is also logged on
a different Sticky Note Online Gadget E.g. the IGoogle Sticky Notes Online Gadget, if the user modifies the
notes on the other (IGoogle) gadget as show below.
Based on the amount of time set in the 'Check Server Every' drop down list, The Google Desktop Notes Gadget will check
if updated notes exist on the server, if the gadget finds more recent notes on the server it shows the following message
On clicking the message the user is presented with the following options:-
- If the User clicks 'Update Notes with Server Data' - The current notes in the Google Desktop Gadget
will be replaced by the ones saved on the server.
- If the User clicks 'Update Notes with Current Data' - The notes on the server will be replaced by the
notes currently in the gadget.
Below we see that the user has selected 'Update Notes with Server Data', which updates the Google Desktop Notes Gadget
by the Notes present on the server (entered using the IGoogle gadget)
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- Network Disconnected
When the user starts his/her operating system and the Notes gadget starts in the Google Desktop Sidebar,
if the user is logged in, the gadget tries to get the notes from the server, however
if network connectivity is absent or there are issues with the server, the following message is shown
On clicking the Notes Gadget, the user is presented with the following options.
If the user selects try again, the gadget will try to access the Notes Server again, on success
the users Notes will appear in the gadget, on failure the gadget will display the same message again.
If the user selects Continue Offline, the user can access the Notes gadget in the offline mode, However if
updates were made to the Notes from other clients while the current computer was shut down, those updates will not be
reflected.
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