- Welcome Screen
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- Notes Window
The Main Notes Window where the user can write notes is 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 App 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 'Create User' button, the Notes App shows up with the green button
denoting the user is logged in.
At this point any Notes written in the App will be permanently saved, even if
you delete the App 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,
cell phones 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
The
Sync functionality is explained ahead
On clicking 'Continue Offline' the Notes App 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 App 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 App 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 App.
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 Settings (Top Right) button shown above brings up the settings panel.
The Theme tab allows the user to change the theme used by Sticky Notes as well as
show the notes App in a larger size, The image below shows the theme and size
being changed.
Other setting tabs are shown below.
The Fonts tab has settings for the font size, font color and font style. Below we
show changes made to these settings.
The Reset tab can be used if the user wants to delete all her/his settings, clear
the notes and bring the gadget back to its initial state.
Note:If the user is logged in she/he will be logged out, However the notes
are still retained on the server and can be accessed be re-logging in or from any
other SNO client.
The Sync tab has settings for the following.
When logged on the Gadget, if the user modifies the notes on another ( E.g. IGoogle)
gadget, Based on the sync settings set above, the gadget on showing up will
Check Sync The gadget will check if different notes exist on the server and
show the sync prompt if notes in the gadget are different than the ones on the server
Get Server Notes The gadget will get notes from the server and update the
notes in the gadget.
Do Nothing No sync occurs, the user can later click Sync Now to confirm if
different notes exist on the server
The
Sync Process is 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 App will be displayed as below
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- Sync Settings
When the user is logged on the Android Sticky Notes Online App on a computer,
and is also logged on a different Sticky Note Online App E.g. the IGoogle Sticky
Notes Online App, if the user modifies the notes on the other (IGoogle) App
as show below.
If the user has set
Check Sync in the Sync drop down list in the options,
The Android Notes App will check if updated notes exist on the server on
showing up, if the App finds more recent notes on the server it shows the following
options:-
- If the User clicks 'Update Notes with Server Data' - The current notes in the
Android App 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 App.
Below we see that the user has selected 'Update Notes with Server Data', which updates
the Android Notes App by the Notes present on the server (entered using
the IGoogle App)
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- Network Disconnected
When the user starts his/her Android, if the user is logged in, the App
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
If the user selects try again, the App will try to access the Notes Server again,
on success the users Notes will appear in the App, on failure the App will
display the same message again.
If the user selects Continue Offline, the user can access the Notes App 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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- Email Notes
When the user is logged in, the the user can email/export her/his Notes to the email
provided during registration or another email address.
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