Usage

When started, the assistant will appear as a window "always in foreground" on your Windows' "desktop". While the window is not being minimized, the assistant will record keyboard input to any program and store it in a structured manner in order to find text contexts fast. You may try that, using a simple editor. (Nonsense input does not harm later use.)

Generally, you can select one of several suggestions; the selected suggestion being highlighted. It can be shortened, or extended, or accepted for the active application.

TypeHelp should be kept running in order to record every input.

A menu of some options and more global commands, you can get by right clicking in the the window.

The window can be moved and shaped as usual. But in case a left context is shown, drawing the left border concerns the corresponding left part only. (That means, right and left widths are adjustable independently of one another.)

Shift the state of the numeric keypad to the positioning functions, if neccessary, by pressing the "Num" key in the upper left corner of the numeric keypad. (You could set that as the standard state in the BIOS of your PC, if you like.) The corresponding keystrokes will then be interpreted by TypeHelp as commands.

The Commands to the assistant are:

Accept suggestion: Insert (0) or Delete (,)
(If one fails, try the other one. Del changed meaning in v1.1.)
The characters of the suggestion will be sent to your active application as if they came from the keyboard.

Next line: Arrow down (2)

Previous line: Arrow up (8)

Shorter suggestion: Arrow left (4)
If the result is shorter than desired, you might first accept that.

Longer suggestion: Arrow right (6)

Left context, toggle presentation of: End (1)

Clipboard content to the assistant: Home (7)
That can last a while for longer texts. But you can use this feature to update the assistant's memory contents by text it did not yet recognize, and to input an already edited piece of text in order to edit it anew. So the suggestion of previous correction steps will be suppressed. (The clipboard contains your last "copied" selection of some text.)

Save current state to disk: Page Down (3)
Automatically done also every half hour, and when the program is closed. (If there has been some input meanwhile.)

These Directions for use: Page Up (9)

For input of confidential text, you may minimize the window. The assistant will then ignore received characters.

But it might be advisable to terminate the program before starting time critical tasks (as CD or DVD burning).

In special situations, the assistant might help in retrieving lost or forgotten text. But do not rely on that feature. The assistant is not an editor. (But can complement such one.)