No memos are displayed when you launch BitMemo at first. "Generic" is first memo file, created when launched.

You create a new memo by clicking on "NEW". After finished writing a text, click "END". But automatically the memo is saved to a file, so you don't have to click "END" explicitly. The first line of memo is treated as a title. The title is shown on list screen.

You see the list screen by clicking on "LIST".

A memo is displyed by clicking a title on the list. Messages on left-down corner are "sequence number on list" and "update date". To display the previous or next memo, click or icon. You can move back and forth between memos.

To copy whole text from a memo, click .

You can create a new memo by dragging and dropping the content from web browser or editor. Text, image, URL, local file are available for drag & drop. Using Command Key + 'C' and 'V' are same results.

see: the section called “Tips”

When you drop a content on a memo, the content was added to the end of memo. Example(See below): You drag and drop the image on the memo.

The result is below.

To create a new memo from clipboard, you drop it on the head area of this widget.

You can also drag & drop the image to another applications.

To copy URL of an image, drag & drop icon to other place.

You can drag & drop while minimizing widget. See： the section called “Minimizing”

Memos are listed in order by entry time. The date shown on the list is entry date.

You click "RECENT", then memos are listed in order by update time. The time shown on the list is update time.

To edit a memo, double-click on a memo. You can also edit by clicking "EDIT" link. To finish editing memo, click "END" or any links. A memo is saved automatically. You need no action to save it. And you can undo and redo operation while editing a memo. See:the section called “Keyboard Shortcuts”

You are asked whether you delete the memo when you click "DEL". If you select "Yes", then the memo is deleted. It is not possible to undo the deletion.

To search, enter a keyword into the text field on right-up corner.

The keyword background color is reversed for easy to find.

When you click or icon, you can move back and forth between memos.

The URL and Email address in memo become hyperlink. If the URL indicates an image (PNG/JPEG/GIF/TIFF), then the image is shown inline. The image width is adjusted automatically. The image file exists in the internet (not on local disk).

You can drag & drop a local file to a memo. It becomes a hyperlink. By clicking the link, the file is opened. Application program files are available. You can use BitMemo as a launcher (maybe..).

To send a mail with a memo text, click "MAIL". Then a mailer program is launched. Default Email address is one which is set on back side.

"MAIL" is available on the submenu. To show the submenu, click icon.

To show the back side, click (i) icon on right-up corner. The upper half is setting for the current file, the lower half is setting for whole of BitMemo. If there are two or more opened widgets, the whole of BitMemo settings are available after reloading the widgets or opening the preference screen at the wedget.

You can insert a part of screen image into a memo by the screen capture function. There are 2 capture modes, mouse selection and window selection.

By clicking icon, a capture operation starts. At first return to normal screen and Dashboard is hidden. Cross line cursor is shown. You select an area by dragging the mouse cursor across the image which you want to clip. After selecting, the clip image is inserted into a memo. While capturing the space key will toggle between mouse selection and window selection modes. The default of selection mode is set on back side.

The images are saved in ~/Listing/BitMemo/capturing/ folder. The image files are deleted when a memo is deleted.

To delete a captured image, click the image.

Now the image is in the image manipulation mode. By clicking icon, then a dialog is shown.

If you select "Yes", then the image file is deleted.

It is not possible to undo the deletion. An Inserted date string is not eraced.

You can duplicate a memo.

When you click an image, the dashed border line is shown.

By clicking icon, you can see the image on web browser (a captured image is displayed on preview.app). Dragging & Dropping the icon to other applications is available for copying the image URL.

is shown when the image is a captured image. By clicking the icon, you can delete the image. It is not able to recovery the deleted files.

To abort the image manipulation mode, click the image again.

These shortcuts are available.

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BitMemo manages memos using files.

To select a file, click icon.

To create a new file, select "create a new memo" from pull-down menu. After selected, Back side is displayed. You can rename the filename if necessary.

At previous versions (including 1.0, 1.2), BitMemo had the title of memo in addition to the filename. It is deprecated. Now for compatibility the old title is displayed on back side below filename textbox (It will be vanished in the furture).

To rename the filename, enter a new filename and click "Done" button. If the filename you entered has existed, an error message is displayed. You can't change the filename of Generic file.

To delete a file, check "Move the current file to trash" and click "Done" button. If you need this file, you can get it in the Trash. To recovery, move the file to "~/Library/BitMemo" folder. You can't delete Generic file.

Memo files exists in "~/Library/BitMemo" folder. The file extension is ".memo". To backup memos, copy these files to other folder.

You can minimize a widget.

To be minimized, click icon. To restore size, click icon.

You can drag & drop on the minimized widget. BitMemo saves as a new memo when dropping something. As well as when capturing.

Cmd+M key is assigned as short cut for minimizing and restoring widget size. By double-clicking head of a widget, you can change size of the widget (like OS9 window).

It is possible to open multiple widgets.

Japanese and Italian language available.

Japanese page is here。

Italian version (Thanks Claudio).

There are 2 ways how to drag & drop image, text and local file to BitMemo.

The first way is that you push F12 key while dragging an image and drop it on BitMemo.

The second way is that you set a Dashboard to show in "Active Screen Corners". "Active Screen Corners" setting is in "Dashboard & Expose" - System preferences.

After setting, you drag an image and move the mouse cursor to left-down corner on the screen. Then Dashboard is shown. You drop it on BitMemo.

It is possible to paste text and image to other applications from a memo.

Since selecting an area, push cmd+C to copy and paste it to TextEdit.app.

* These are specs of /usr/sbin/screencapture command.