Notes Window

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To show or hide the notes window:

On the main program window, click on the notes icon note
Press F5
Type Alt+F5 (This activates the Notes window ready for entering text. Pressing Alt+F5 when the Note window is visible reactivates the main program window.)
From the Application menu, select Show/Hide notes.

There are two tabs on the Notes window: the first contains your notes and login details; the second contains your keywords/tags and visit details.

Hold the mouse cursor over any of the time-related fields to see the exact time and date.

To resize the window, click on any edge of the Notes window and drag.

With the text cursor in the notes box, type Ctrl+D to insert the current date.

Notes window buttons

login QuickLogin: Click on this to send the log-in name and password to the last active web page or dialog box. Right-click to copy the log-in name and/or password.

key Set an encryption password: Click on this to encrypt your site log-in passwords.

locked Passwords locked: Click on this to decrypt and/or reveal your site log-in passwords. See the QuickLogin section for more detail.

unlocked Passwords unlocked: Click on this to hide your site log-in passwords. See the QuickLogin section for more detail.

clock Scheduler: Click on this to schedule a visit to a bookmarked site.

Notes window fields

Notes: Your own notes

Log-in name: The log-in name needed to access the bookmarked site

Password: The log-in password needed to access the bookmarked site. The password is only shown when you click inside the text box. If you store site passwords in Bookmark Buddy, you should consider encrypting them.

Site updated: Date when the bookmarked page was last updated, according to the last background check.

Rating: Your rating for the bookmarked site. This can be useful for choosing which of a number of similar sites to try first. You can also filter search results by rating.

Last visit: Time you last visited the bookmark site (using Bookmark Buddy).

Previous visit: Time of previous-to-last visit.

Next visit due: Time of next scheduled visit.

Visits: Running total of the number of times you have visited the bookmarked site.

Keywords: Words (or easily-remembered abbreviations) that you would like to be able to search by to find the bookmark. Also known as 'tags' or 'labels'.

Created: Date when you added the bookmark in Bookmark Buddy.

Modified: Date of last modification to any data associated with the bookmark.

See also:

Add a Note
Find a Bookmark
Encrypt a Bookmark List
Behavior Preferences