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<bookinfo>
<title>The KnowIt Handbook</title>

<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Michal</firstname>
<othername></othername>
<surname>Rudolf</surname>
<affiliation>
<address><email>mrudolf@tdewebdev.org</email></address>
</affiliation>
</author>
</authorgroup>

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<copyright>
<year>2002</year>
<year>2003</year>
<year>2004</year>
<holder>Michal Rudolf</holder>
</copyright>
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<legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice>

<date>31/03/2003</date>
<releaseinfo>0.10</releaseinfo>

<abstract>
<para>
&knowit; is an application to help you keep, edit and maintain notes.
</para>
</abstract>

<keywordset>
<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>KnowIt</keyword>
<keyword>notes</keyword>
<keyword>manage</keyword>
<keyword>edit</keyword>
<keyword>tree</keyword>
<keyword>hierarchy</keyword>
<keyword>HTML</keyword>
</keywordset>

</bookinfo>

<chapter id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>

<para>
&kapp; is a simple tool for managing notes. It is similar to
<ulink url="http://tuxcards.sourceforge.net">TuxCards</ulink>, 
but designed for KDE 3.x. Notes are organized in tree-like hierarchy,
texts are stored in RichText format, so bold, italic and underline fonts
are supported, as well as various text colors and unordered lists.
</para>

<para>
&kapp; development depends on user's feedback! If you have 
suggestions or want to help developing &kapp;, have a look at the 
<ulink url="http://knowit.sourceforge.net">&kapp; page</ulink>
to see what is still to do.
</para>

</chapter>

<chapter id="using-kapp">
<title>Using &knowit;</title>

<sect1 id="Interface">
<title>Interface</title>
<para>

The main screen of &knowit; is divided into two parts: on the left you can see the notes
hierarchy (tree-like), on the right you can find the text of the current note.
You can browse and manage notes in the tree view and edit them in the
edit view.

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Here's a screenshot of &kapp;</screeninfo>
	<mediaobject>
	  <imageobject>
	    <imagedata fileref="screenshot.png" format="PNG"/>
	  </imageobject>
	  <textobject>
	    <phrase>Screenshot</phrase>
	  </textobject>
	</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
</para>

<sect2 id="editing">
<title>Editing notes</title>
<para>
You can use standard KDE shortcuts for editing text. Unordered lists are
supported: just start the line with <keycap>*</keycap>. You can also use 
<guimenu>List</guimenu> submenu of <guimenu>Edit</guimenu> menu to get all 
available list formats.
</para>     
     
<para>
<keycap>Enter</keycap> inserts a new paragraph (as in HTML there
is an empty line between two paragraphs) - if you
just want a line break, use <keycap>Ctrl+Enter</keycap> instead.
</para>
</sect2>

<sect2 id="managing">
<title>Managing notes</title>
<para>
You can use shortcuts for adding notes. If the notes tree is active,
just press <keycap>Ctrl+Enter</keycap> to add a same-level note following
the current one, <keycap>Insert</keycap> to add a child-note and
<keycap>Delete</keycap> to delete the current note.
</para>

<para>
<guimenu>Notes</guimenu> menu or popup menu (accessed by right-clicking
on the list) contains many commands for managing notes. Most of them
have shortcuts assigned, for others you could assign them yourself.
</para>
</sect2>

<sect2 id="links">
<title>Links</title>
<para>
You can create links in notes. Links will be displayed below the note
text. There are two kinds of links: <emphasis>external</emphasis> (to
any file or URL) - click on it, and it will be opened in  appropriate
application, and <emphasis>internal</emphasis> (to another note) - click
on it, and note with appropriate title will be displayed.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
</chapter>

<chapter id="about">
<title>About &knowit;</title>

<sect1 id="credits">
<title>Credits and License</title>

<para>
Program and documentation:
</para>
<para>copyright 2002, 2003, 2004 Michal Rudolf <email>mrudolf@tdewebdev.org</email>
</para>
&underFDL;   <!-- FDL: do not remove. Commercial development should -->
&underGPL;   <!-- GPL License -->
</sect1>

<sect1 id="new">
<title>New in this version</title>

<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><simpara>list editing commands</simpara></listitem>
<listitem><simpara>improved handling of read-only files</simpara></listitem>
<listitem><simpara>many improvements to export</simpara></listitem>
<listitem><simpara>link copy command</simpara></listitem>
<listitem><simpara>some shortcuts for links added</simpara></listitem>
<listitem><simpara>fixed backup bugs</simpara></listitem>
<listitem><simpara>warning when resource file is missing</simpara></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

&knowit; 0.10 was released at 31st of March 2003. File <filename>ChangeLog</filename> in
source package contains information about changes in previous versions.
</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>


<appendix id="installation">
<title>Installation</title>

<sect1 id="getting-knowit">
<title>How to obtain &knowit;</title>

<para>
Newest version of &knowit; can be found at
<ulink url="href://knowit.sourceforge.net">knowit.sourceforge.net</ulink>.
Updates will probably be announced on <ulink
url="http://freshmeat.net">Freshmeat</ulink> and
<ulink url="href://apps.kde.com">apps.kde.com</ulink>.
</para>
</sect1>


<sect1 id="requirements">
<title>Requirements</title>
<para>
I use KDE 3.1 for both developing and testing &knowit;. As
far as I know, it should work in both KDE 3.2 and KDE 3.0 without any problems.
</para>

<para>
I doubt that it would compile in KDE 2.x - but I have no access
to older KDE versions to check it. Anyway, any information
about &knowit; in KDE 2.x would be welcomed.
</para>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="compilation">
<title>Compilation and installation</title>
<para>
In order to compile and install &knowit; on your system, type the following
in the base directory of the &knowit; distribution:
<screen width="40">
<prompt>%</prompt> <userinput>./configure</userinput>
<prompt>%</prompt> <userinput>make</userinput>
<prompt>%</prompt> <userinput>make install</userinput>
</screen>
</para>

<para>Since &knowit; uses autoconf and automake, you should have no
trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report
them to the autor.</para>
</sect1>

</appendix>

&documentation.index;
</book>
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