Leasey Virtual Notes.

Introduction.

It is more than possible that you would like to work in one application while referring to notes in another one or within a series of applications. Here are some examples. You may be writing a report in Microsoft Word, but you've made notes relating to a client which are stored in a text file which would typically be opened up in Notepad or another text editor. To get to those notes, you may have to press alt with tab a number of times to find it, especially if you have several applications open.

alternatively, you may be a person who does quite a lot of audio recording, and you need to read text which you have compiled from a number of documents or web page sources. You would need to start the recording, and then press alt tab often several times in order to move to the web page or document of interest.

Leasey Virtual Notes makes referring to text a very easy process. You can stay within the primary application, such as Microsoft Word or your recording application, and still have access to your important text. It's a bit like a sighted person having two monitors side by side: one containing the document and the other displaying the text notes. Best of all, these notes can be from a variety of different sources.

How It Works.

The first thing we probably should do is to clear any existing notes we have previously stored. This is because, even if JAWS is restarted, your notes are still in place. Press the Leasey Key followed by Shift+B for Buffer.

1. Move into the application from which you wish to copy text to add to your notes. Mark the start point of the text you wish to copy with the same keystroke you would use to mark the beginning of text you wish to select, Leasey Key then Comma.
2. Move to the end point of the text you wish to add to the notes, and press the Leasey Key followed by full-stop or period.
3. The text is now added to the notes.
4. You can repeat this process as many times as necessary in order to add more notes. Each time you work through the above procedure, the text is added separated by a new line.

To access your notes, move into the primary application you wish to use. For example, if you are writing a report based upon the notes, you may like to open Microsoft Word.

Now, either press the Leasey key followed by letter B, or ALT+Control+Windows+Forward Slash.

The notes are available. If you have not accessed the notes previously, you will be on the first line.

If you had accessed the notes before, you will be placed on the line where you left off reading. If you are using a Braille display, you should find that the line you were last reading on the display is the one which should now be in focus.

You can use the panning keys on your Braille display, or the arrow keys on your keyboard, in order to move through the notes. Should you wish to return to your primary application, press Escape.

Two further points to note. You know them already but we are spelling them out.

To resume reading your notes, either press the Leasey Key followed by letter B, or ALT+Control+Windows+Forward Slash.

To clear the notes buffer, press the Leasey Key then Shift+B. Back to Help Index.