| Info about using Zhorn Software's free Stickies for notes on your computer and AOR in addition to Adobe's free PDF sticky notes. |
The two biggest reasons to have
another sticky program:
1) To help ChapterVu work more efficiently when you
want to quickly go to some chapter in the Bible.
2) To have a useful stickies on your desktop and/or
attached to other files on your computer.
ChapterVu and Adobe's PDF search-and-find depend on
1) your computer's search indexing, and 2) the unique
headings to Bible chapters. For example, the chapter heading
for Romans 6 isn't the usual "Chapter 6" - because that
heading appears in every book in the Bible with a chapter 6...
which would mean ChapterVu couldn't tell the difference.
Therefore, Romans 6's heading is "Rom 06" - because no
other chapter in the Bible will have that address. And in order
to prevent ChapterVu from finding and going to a reference to
Romans 6 in AOR, the chapter references in AOR are slightly
different. Romans 6, for example, is abbreviated as "Ro 6" in
AOR.
The fact that the chapter abbreviations in AOR are different
from the unique chapter headings in the Bible allows
ChapterVu to instantaneously find and take you to "Rom 06" in
the Bible - once your computer has finished "indexing" AOR
and the Bible (which takes about 6 to 10 consecutive uses of
ChapterVu...or a 10 to 15 minute wait after a single use of
ChapterVu initiates indexing).
As much as you will enjoy being able to put Adobe sticky
notes next to paragraphs on specific pages of AOR and the
Bible, and as much as you will enjoy being able to highlight text
in AOR and the Bible, when you do so you must "save" those
additions/changes to The Swordbearer Bible Study...or they will
not be there when you next open AOR. Here's the (minor and
temporary) problem: Your computer doesn't know that
something as simple as highlighting a single word - and then
saving it - doesn't necessitate indexing your whole Bible study
again. All your computer knows is something has changed...
and therefore it will index your Bible study all over again.
What does that mean in practice? When you open your Bible
study, it'll open to page 1 (which is the black cover to AOR). If
you type rom 06 in your Find window and hit enter because
you want to look up a Scripture in Rom 6, ordinarily you'd be
there now. But if, before you closed the Bible study the last
time, you added and saved a reminder note to an Adobe
sticky (such as "begin reading next time on page H10-2" or
"resume reading in Ro 6", when you type in rom 06 and hit
Enter, you'll see your search/indexing engine's progress bar at
the bottom of the page start with the page you're on (page 1)
and search chronologically until it gets to the page on which it
finds "rom 06" (page 883). That's the bad news, but it's not too
bad because the good news is, now that you're at Rom 6 and
have begun reading, your use of ChapterVu restarted the
indexing process, and it quietly continues as you're reading. So
in just a few minutes ChapterVu will be instantaneous again.
So technically you don't need an external stickies program, but
using one for routine non-permanent notes and reminders -
such as page reminders as you close out your Bible study - will
help reduce the number of times you'll experience those minor
delays as ChapterVu is reindexed.
Stickies Features I Really Like:
whenever its associated file does. The yellow Stickies
note on the screenshot above, for example, is "attached"
to my Bible study. Whenever I open it, Stickies opens, too,
in whatever position I last left it...and I can see what page
or other reminders I wrote on it. (Notes on Stickies do not
need to be saved; that is done automatically - and it
doesn't affect indexing or ChapterVu.) When I'm done with
my Bible study I close it out - and my yellow Stickies note
vanishes with it - only to reappear when I next open the
Bible study.
to sit there mostly transparent so it doesn't interfere with
my reading. Whenever you click on the Stickies note it'll
become fully visible again...only to fade from view when
you're done with it and return to whatever you were doing.
Other Stickies Features:
position on the screen even through reboots.
on screen. ("Attached" means it opens and closes
whenever its associated program does.)
another sticky program:
1) To help ChapterVu work more efficiently when you
want to quickly go to some chapter in the Bible.
2) To have a useful stickies on your desktop and/or
attached to other files on your computer.
ChapterVu and Adobe's PDF search-and-find depend on
1) your computer's search indexing, and 2) the unique
headings to Bible chapters. For example, the chapter heading
for Romans 6 isn't the usual "Chapter 6" - because that
heading appears in every book in the Bible with a chapter 6...
which would mean ChapterVu couldn't tell the difference.
Therefore, Romans 6's heading is "Rom 06" - because no
other chapter in the Bible will have that address. And in order
to prevent ChapterVu from finding and going to a reference to
Romans 6 in AOR, the chapter references in AOR are slightly
different. Romans 6, for example, is abbreviated as "Ro 6" in
AOR.
The fact that the chapter abbreviations in AOR are different
from the unique chapter headings in the Bible allows
ChapterVu to instantaneously find and take you to "Rom 06" in
the Bible - once your computer has finished "indexing" AOR
and the Bible (which takes about 6 to 10 consecutive uses of
ChapterVu...or a 10 to 15 minute wait after a single use of
ChapterVu initiates indexing).
As much as you will enjoy being able to put Adobe sticky
notes next to paragraphs on specific pages of AOR and the
Bible, and as much as you will enjoy being able to highlight text
in AOR and the Bible, when you do so you must "save" those
additions/changes to The Swordbearer Bible Study...or they will
not be there when you next open AOR. Here's the (minor and
temporary) problem: Your computer doesn't know that
something as simple as highlighting a single word - and then
saving it - doesn't necessitate indexing your whole Bible study
again. All your computer knows is something has changed...
and therefore it will index your Bible study all over again.
What does that mean in practice? When you open your Bible
study, it'll open to page 1 (which is the black cover to AOR). If
you type rom 06 in your Find window and hit enter because
you want to look up a Scripture in Rom 6, ordinarily you'd be
there now. But if, before you closed the Bible study the last
time, you added and saved a reminder note to an Adobe
sticky (such as "begin reading next time on page H10-2" or
"resume reading in Ro 6", when you type in rom 06 and hit
Enter, you'll see your search/indexing engine's progress bar at
the bottom of the page start with the page you're on (page 1)
and search chronologically until it gets to the page on which it
finds "rom 06" (page 883). That's the bad news, but it's not too
bad because the good news is, now that you're at Rom 6 and
have begun reading, your use of ChapterVu restarted the
indexing process, and it quietly continues as you're reading. So
in just a few minutes ChapterVu will be instantaneous again.
So technically you don't need an external stickies program, but
using one for routine non-permanent notes and reminders -
such as page reminders as you close out your Bible study - will
help reduce the number of times you'll experience those minor
delays as ChapterVu is reindexed.
Stickies Features I Really Like:
- You can easily "attach" it to programs and files on your
whenever its associated file does. The yellow Stickies
note on the screenshot above, for example, is "attached"
to my Bible study. Whenever I open it, Stickies opens, too,
in whatever position I last left it...and I can see what page
or other reminders I wrote on it. (Notes on Stickies do not
need to be saved; that is done automatically - and it
doesn't affect indexing or ChapterVu.) When I'm done with
my Bible study I close it out - and my yellow Stickies note
vanishes with it - only to reappear when I next open the
Bible study.
- You can put Stickies on your desktop (as I've done above
to sit there mostly transparent so it doesn't interfere with
my reading. Whenever you click on the Stickies note it'll
become fully visible again...only to fade from view when
you're done with it and return to whatever you were doing.
Other Stickies Features:
- Small and simple program doesn't interfere with system
- Stickies retains its text, pictures, font style, color,
position on the screen even through reboots.
- Stickies can be "attached" to web sites, documents
on screen. ("Attached" means it opens and closes
whenever its associated program does.)
- Stickies can be set as timers or alarm-reminders.
- The directions that come with Stickies are good and
- Stickies is a free download.
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