txtr Help

• General

  1. What is txtr? And what you have to consider when using it...
  2. txtr’s privacy policy
  3. How to log on – and off again
  4. Changing your username and password

  How to organize your documents

  1. Keep track of things: the sidebar
  2. Text collections
  3. Uploading documents – here is how it works
  4. Public and private documents
  5. Using the dashboard
  6. Always up-to-date: with RSS

  Finding, reading and sharing documents

  1. Send recommendations
  2. The profile page
  3. Search
  4. Document details
  5. Discussing texts
  6. Tiny URLs for documents
  7. BibTeX

  Frequently asked questions

  1. I get the message Error #2038 when I try to open my document with adobe digital editions. What should I do now?
  2. What is the Adobe ID / Adobe Club?
  3. On how many devices may I read the EPUB (drm) documents I bought?

• What is txtr?

  txtr is your personal internet document center. Here, you may upload and store documents, to use them later on from any computer with an internet connection. You may also use txtr to present your own publications to others.

  Documents within txtr are either private or public.
  You may choose freely which documents remain only yours to see, and which will be visible to your friends or co-workers. txtr is meant to support work in teams, for instance in study groups.

  The use of txtr is free for you.

  Important notice

  You may choose for each document collection whether it is publicly visible or not. Public documents can be found and downloaded by everyone. Therefore, please make sure that you are only publishing documents in this way where you are not infringing upon the copyright of a third party. Non-public documents are your private affair, though.

  txtr reserves the right to remove public documents that violate the law, our terms of business or the rights of third parties. txtr also reserves the right to remove user accounts for any reason deemed important by our staff.

  The people at txtr are doing everything they can to preserve your documents against hardware failures or hacking attacks. txtr may however not guarantee the integrity or privacy of your document collection and is not liable in case of a failure of our service.

• txtr’s privacy policy

  txtr will never use your data for any other purpose than necessary to store and distribute your documents. In particular we will never use your contact data for advertisement purposes, give or sell them to third parties. You are not entering any hidden obligations by joining or using txtr. Also, we are not interested in the private contents stored by our users.

• How to log on – and off again

  You will find the login and logout links at the upper left, just below the txtr logo.

  Becoming a member is easy: just click the “Sign up to txtr” button on the starting page. You may then choose a username and a password. (Entering an e-mail address is not required, but strongly recommended, because we may otherwise not help should you ever forget your password – we would not know where to send a new one to.)

  If you are using txtr from your home or office, there is probably no reason to ever log out. But if you are accessing your document collection from an internet café or a public library, logging out after each session is highly recommended.

• Changing your username and password

  When you choose to become a txtr user, you may set a username and a password. To change either one later on, switch to your user profile and click on the field “Edit profile and settings”.

• Keep track of things: the sidebar

  The left sidebar contains the most important controls for navigating txtr.com:

  • A link to your dashboard (useful for arranging frequently used collections), and to your profile (where you can also edit your settings). You will also find the logout link here.
  • An overview of recent events.
  • A list of collections, containing your own collection, private collections you may access, and all public collections you explicitly put there. You can use drag&drop to place these collections on your dashboard.
  • Your contact list. You will find links to add contacts on the profile pages of other txtr users.

  The list of collections will always be lead by two special collections, "Inbox", which is the default place for all new documents, and "Recycle bin". These collections can not be deleted.

• Text collections

  Click on one of the items from the collection list in your sidebar to open the respective collection. You then have one of the following options:

  • Upload new documents into this collection.
  • Invite contacts via txtr or via email, to have a look at the collection, or even contribute own documents.
  • Directly modify permissions by clicking on the item "Access Rights". You can then use drag&drop to add contacts form the contact list in your sidebar to the respective access container.
  • By clicking "more", you will reach additional controls, for example to paste documents from the txtr-clipboard or to rename the collection

  You can use drag&drop to manually sort the contents of the collection, or move them to other collections via the sidbar.

• Uploading documents – here is how it works

  With each of your collections, you will find an “upload” button  .
  Click it to choose one or more documents from you local computer, which are then sent to your text collection.

  You can also use „Upload“ in the main navigation for quickly uploading to the Inbox.

• Public and private documents

  After visiting your dashboard for the first time, you will find two collection examples: one public and one private. Documents in a public collection   can be found using txtr’s search (and search enginges like Google), and everybody may read and download them. Private documents   may only be accessed by yourself. These cannot be found by other users, nor will visitors of your text collection get to see them.
  Using the “plus” button at the collection overview, you may create new collections. You may want to add the new collection to your dashboard, use drag & drop to do so.

  The dashboard's tab menus also have entries for creating new collections, which will be added to the dashboard automatically.

  You may change the access rights of your collections any time, by clicking on the respective icon.

  Do you want to make a collection accessible to particular people (e.g. your friends or colleagues)? – No problem. In the collection’s access pane select “Just me and …”, and add the usernames of the other members, by dragging them from the list of contacts into the access pane:  .

  If the user is not yet in your contacts, add her or him using the field “find contact” below the list of contacts in the sidebar.

• Using the dashboard

  Use your dashboard to arrange your collections and those of others side-by-side. This is useful for overview and convenient access.

  Every collection has a context menu, allowing you to change its name and description. You may change the order of collections by dragging them about - find the move handle at the bottom right of every collection on the dashboard. Use drag & drop to move documents within a collection, or between collections.

  To move multiple documents at once, select them.
  Perform a single click on the first document entry to select it. (Note: do not click directly on the text, but either on the icon or into free space, because clicking the text will bring you to the document info page.)

  Then press the shift key and click on the last document of the selection range.

  You may also select and deselect individual documents by clicking them while holding the Ctrl-key (or the Apple key, in case you are using a Mac).

  Move the selected documents together by dragging one of them with the mouse.

  To delete documents, drag them into the trash bin in the sidebar to the left.

• Always up-to-date: with RSS

  You will find that some people maintain collections that are worth visiting often, because they frequently add new and interesting documents. To always stay up-to-date, you may subscribe to a news feed: every public collection offers an RSS feed. Click on the RSS icon   and import the RSS address from the browser address field into your RSS reader.

• Send recommendations

  To recommend a text to another user, simply open your list of contacts and drag the respective document entry on top of the user entry. The user will then receive a message with a link to the document. (If the user is not yet in your contacts, you may add her or him using the field “Find a contact” below the contact list.)

• The profile page

  Other users that are visiting your text collection or looking you up in the user search will want to know who you are. Introduce yourself on the profile page! Open your profile page (click on the sidebar), and select the button “Edit profile and settings” to change your data, add a slogan, upload an image or change your password and username.

• Search

  At the top of the page, you will find the input field for searching txtr.com for documents. The search page offers further filters to restrict your search to the certain document attributes.

  Retrieved documents can be added to your Inbox with a single click.

• Document details

  Upon a click on a document (i.e. the text link within a document entry), a document information page opens. It presents a preview of the text and a host of document attributes (like author, title, year and place of publication and so on). Here, you may change or add document attributes to help finding the document later on, or to use it in a bibliography tool.

  If the document shares a collection with other documents you may switch between these using the arrow buttons next to the collection name.

• Discussing texts

  Below the preview pane, the document information page holds a comment tool. All members with access rights to the text may use it to conduct a discussion on the text.

• Tiny URLs for documents

  Every text, every text collection and every collection within txtr has a short, permanent and unique URL. This address link is displayed at the top right of the page for documents as well as text collections. You may send this link (for instance, by e-mail) to other users to identify a document or a collection to them. Note that these other users can see this content only if they have sufficient access rights to do so: if you send a link to a private document to someone else, then this person must be added to the list of allowed visitors of the respective collection, before they can access it.

• BibTeX

  BibTeX is a standard biobligraphy format, used mostly in academic research. You may download the attributes of a document in BibTeX format on the document info page, or the data of a complete collection from its context menu (at the top right of the collection).

• I get the message Error #2038 when I try to open my document with adobe digital editions.

  This error occurs if,

  • your epub has been moved out of the Digital Editions Folder. In this case, please remove this Item from your Library, download the access key again from the txtr store and import the epub to Digital Editions again.
  • Digital Editions is not able to connect to the internet. To ensure everything can work fine, check your connection and firewalls etc. to ensure that Digital Editions can connect to Adobe's server.
  • Digital Editions has trouble interpreting non-English characters. Remove all those from the label of your hard-drive and folders Digital Editions may be accessing.

• What's the Adobe ID / Adobe Club?

  For now you have to get an Adobe ID in order to be able to import EPUB-documents you bought.

• On how many devices may I read my EPUB (drm) document?

  You may read your EPUB (drm) document on up to 6 devices at the same time.

• Clipping

  This feature enables you to add text from anywhere on the the internet directly to your txtr account.
  This is all you have to do to get going:

  1. Import this link as a bookmark:
     txtr: clip!
     In Firefox and Safari, for example, simply drag the link to your bookmarks toolbar.
  2. Whenever you see something interesting on the web that you want to keep: Click the "txtr: clip!" bookmark, hover the website and use the yellow boxes to select the sections to keep. Selected parts of the website are highlighted with green boxes. You can select more than one section.
  3. When you're done and ready to import the highlighted parts of the site, click the "Import" button on the clipping tool.
  4. You will be redirected to the imported document. Just log in to txtr and the text is yours! (In case you are logged in already, the text is transfered to your account right away.)