Manual for Digital Time Capsule Table of Contents Introduction ..........................................................................................5 Starting the Program the First Time.....................................................5 Flying the Digital Time Capsule............................................................6 The Screen.............................................................................................8 Line or Graphic Buttons.....................................................................8 The Wheel .......................................................................................11 Bars..................................................................................................12 Atoms and Rings..............................................................................13 List of Planets..................................................................................14 Name................................................................................................14 Date and Time..................................................................................14 Menus...............................................................................................15 Status Bar........................................................................................25 Tool Tips...........................................................................................25 Hot Zones.........................................................................................27 Help.....................................................................................................29 Tip of Day.........................................................................................29 Help Overlay....................................................................................30 Quick Help.......................................................................................30 Charts..................................................................................................31 Create New Chart............................................................................31 Open Old Chart................................................................................34 Scrolling Through Charts.................................................................36 Chart File.........................................................................................37 Save As Startup................................................................................37 Modes..................................................................................................38 Registers..............................................................................................43 Interpretations.....................................................................................43 Moving Around....................................................................................43 Goto Date.........................................................................................44 Move Date........................................................................................44 Custom Step Size.............................................................................45 Bookmarks......................................................................................45 Aspects.................................................................................................46 Aspect List........................................................................................46 Aspect Fading..................................................................................49 Aspect Dictionaries..........................................................................49 Other Types of Aspects....................................................................51 Features...............................................................................................52 Transits and Progressions................................................................52 More Progressions, Directions........................................................53 Other Coordinate Systems...............................................................54 Midpoints.........................................................................................55 Harmonics........................................................................................56 Comparisons and Composites..........................................................56 Dual Display.....................................................................................57 Other Bar Types...............................................................................58 Other....................................................................................................59 Kiosk Mode.......................................................................................59 Realtime...........................................................................................59 Moving Zodiac..................................................................................60 Customization......................................................................................60 Projects............................................................................................60 Styles................................................................................................61 The Stylist........................................................................................61 Modifying Bars.................................................................................86 Modifying Colors..............................................................................88 Modifying Aspects............................................................................90 Moving Buttons................................................................................91 Frame Rate......................................................................................91 Advanced Features..............................................................................93 Drag and Drop Planets.....................................................................93 Macros.............................................................................................93 Instant Macros.................................................................................94 Macro Generator..............................................................................94 Chart Macros...................................................................................98 Undo.................................................................................................99 Recording Actions..........................................................................101 Breadcrumb Trail...........................................................................103 Sessions..........................................................................................105 OnScreen Timer.............................................................................105 Moving Wheel................................................................................106 Use Arrows.....................................................................................107 Other Features..................................................................................108 Multiple Composite........................................................................108 Save Transit, Natal to Another Chart............................................108 Reflection.......................................................................................108 Scroll Wheel...................................................................................109 Relocation and Rectification..........................................................110 Sidereal and Precessed..................................................................110 Transit Graph ....................................................................................111 Harmonics......................................................................................113 Other Options.................................................................................115 Colors and Glyph Sizes..................................................................116 Transit Graph Zoom.......................................................................116 Appendix............................................................................................117 Keyboard Usage.............................................................................117 Transit Graph Keys........................................................................119 Right and Left Arrows....................................................................122 Up Arrow........................................................................................123 Down Arrow...................................................................................125 A Style Portfolio.............................................................................127 Introduction The first thing to know about the Digital Time Capsule is that there are several ways of doing almost everything. While most programs allow you to use drop-down menus to perform operations, which you can also do with this program, most things can also be done with a key or a mouse click. Once you are familiar with the program, these are much faster than using the menus. Consider playing a piano or typing a document: If you had to use a menu every time you wanted to