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Let's quickly look at the rest of Tobu features. In file | list
tags you can view all tags used with items stored in our
database; Tobu limits the range to the first 2000 tags to keep things
quick. File | apply filters is the same as the "list" button or
hitting Ctrl-L. File | new tab is the same as "new tab" button (you
can also open a new tab by double-clicking in the empty area to the
right of tabs). File | find will do a full text search of items; to
search just inside the current item you can hit Ctrl-F while in the
text area. File | options will let you set the custom editor program
used to edit text in content area when you click 'edit..' button, as
well as a few other settings. Built-in content area editor is very
basic—you might want to use gvim or wordpad or some other editor
of choice for advanced formatting and for more printing options (basic
printing is provided by File | Print).
Note that on Linux, some editors will fork when started by another program, making Tobu think they finished editing and exited. Tobu will fix this automatically for gvim by appending '--nofork' to the command; if you have this problem with some other editor, find out the command line argument to stop forking and add it to the editor command in the options screen. If the content in the text area is not updated after you edit it with external editor & save it, that's the reason.
New copy button will create a new record with contents of all fields copied from the current record. This can be useful if you're entering a large number of records that are similar to each other, i.e. if they have mostly the same tags—just like the shopping list or a todo list.
Usually, the most labor-intensive part of using Tobu is entering tags. Tobu can help you type tags faster by using auto completion—hit "tab" after a few characters of a tag are typed in—Tobu will look at the last 2000 tags used or searched for and will try to auto-complete the tag—if more than one match is found, they will be listed in the status bar. Since this feature uses the Tab key to auto complete tags, pressing tab will not take you to the text area as you might expect. To do that, you must hit Enter or Space and then Tab. If you hit Tab when the cursor is right next to one or more letters, it will not go to the text area even if no autocompletion matches are found, which may be confusing at times. You might want to use Enter key to go from Title area to Tags area and then to Text area instead of Tab key—it will always work consistently.
Help | About box will show you the total number of items currently stored in the database and Tobu version number.
The tabs in Tobu have automatically-assigned colors—they don't have any special meaning except for making it easier to find the tab you're looking for.
You can see the list of keyboard shortcuts by going to Help | Keyboard Shortcuts or by clicking the toolbar button.
You can make a selection and apply a text style by pressing one of the style buttons to the right of the title text entry field. The styles cannot be combined due to a limited number of styles supported by textarea widget used by Tobu. Since Tobu is not meant to be a word processor, this should hopefully be enough to highlight section titles, etc.
File | Write to file command can be used to dump entire database to a text file or to a set of linked html files.