How do I use the BlueNoteGo shortcut button and the GoFocus light strip?

To use BlueNote Communicator Lights without sacrificing screen real estate or struggling with excessive popup notifications, you can enable BlueNoteGo. This is a floating taskbar that can be placed anywhere on the desktop. You can customize which options appear on the Go button; for example, the video below shows it being used to open Conversations, toggle the Light Panel, and turn on 'Do Not Disturb'.

What actions can BlueNoteGo perform?

BlueNoteGo provides a persistent shortcut on your screen, ensuring the notification system is always accessible. Use it to quickly bring BlueNote to the front of all other windows or minimize it instantly. With BlueNoteGo, you can:

1. Bring the Light Panel up and down quickly to turn lights on, off, or to glance at all current Lights activity. To bring the Light panel up and down, click the 'B' on the Go button.
2. Open Conversations to reply to an existing thread by clicking the speech icon. This can also be used to start a new Conversation, or to view previous message history. To close the Conversations window, right-click on the speech icon on the Go button.
3. Temporarily disable all of BlueNote's visual and audible notifications on the specific computer with a single click of the Do Not Disturb button, which appears as a moon icon when active.
4. Turn on up to three pre-programmed Quick Lights with a single click.
5. Eliminate the need for stacking popups by queueing notifications in time-stamped order with GoFocus.

BlueNoteGo is most commonly used as a shortcut to Initiate a new notification, React to an active one, or Target a specific user with the following actions:

Turning On BlueNoteGo

To turn on BlueNoteGo, open the BlueNote Lights program and choose Menu > Preferences > BlueNote Go and toggle the red button under the BlueNoteGo tab to On. The bar will appear in the middle of the window. Toggle it back Off to remove the Go button from the user's screen, When BlueNoteGo is On, this is where you'll also choose whether or not the Conversations and Do Not Disturb buttons are enabled. If the Go Button seems too large in relation to the other windows on the monitor, the user has the option to make the Go UI button smaller.

Moving BlueNoteGo

To move the BlueNoteGo bar, grab the entire bar by pressing on the "B" and then dragging it wherever you'd like to place it on the screen.

Programming BlueNoteGo Quick Light Buttons

While the standard Light Panel is fast, Quick Buttons provide an even more immediate way to trigger specific notifications. These serve as "super-shortcuts" built directly into the BlueNoteGo interface.

How it Works:

• Instant Activation: Typically used to turn Lights On with a single click.
• Clearing Lights: If "Right-click to clear" is enabled, you can also turn Lights Off directly from the button.
• Full Customization: A Quick Button can be mapped to any Light, include any single BlueNote Message, and can even include a pre-typed comment.

Example: Front Desk Assistance

In the example below, a front desk user needs to request help quickly without searching through the full Light Panel.

• A red Quick Light is programmed from BlueNoteGo Quick Buttons
• Once this light has been Saved, with one click, the "Front Office Needs Help" will turn on and "Medical question" will be included each time.
• The bottom illustration shows the BlueNoteGo navigation bar's appearance when the Quick Light Button has been added.

Focused Notifications on the GoFocus Light Strip Dock

The GoFocus light strip Dock is a replacement for having multiple popups that appear over other software programs. Instead, when this feature is enabled, a small bar appears on the left-hand or right-hand side of the user's primary monitor, and an icon is added to the Go button.

When the user clicks on this icon, or their mouse hovers over the GoFocus Dock, all notifications included in this user's Focused view appear in sequential order that indicates when each Light was turned on. When GoFocus is turned On, popups only appear for 20 seconds whenever Lights are activated, updated, or refreshed. The Gofocus Dock is designed to function as a single strip of colored bars, so that notification data is always visible on a dedicated portion of the monitor, and all data can be viewed, but on an as-needed basis.

If a user wishes not to include the appearance of specific Lights within GoFocus, all settings applied to Focused View will also apply to GoFocus. More about Focused View and its Settings.

Options available:

• Dock Left (seen in the previous two images above) or Dock Right - only the strip and the popup appears - clicking on the icon or hovering over the strip is how the user is able to read all the Light notifications at once in sequential order. The number of active Lights appears at the top of the strip. Below is a closeup of the Dock Left appearance when the user hovers over the strip.

• UnDocked - no strip is visible; instead the UnDocked mode can be resized and moved anywhere on the screen. UnDocked also allows users to move notifications to a secondary monitor, which is helpful when popups are restricted to the primary monitor in Windows.

The UnDocked view is designed to stay On Top of other windows when the GoFocus icon is toggled green, but can also be quickly hidden. Click the Eye icon on the BlueNoteGo bar to keep UnDocked On Top.

Light Interactions from GoFocus Docked or Undocked

Double-click or right-click an active Light. From here, you can perform the following actions:

• Turn Off: Toggles the Light off for all users
• Refresh: Replays the light's tone and refreshes all popup notifications
• Escalate: Increase the urgency of the notification by flashing it on the Light Panel
• Add a P1, P2, P3 Priority: Overrides the time-stamped order of notifications
• Open in client: brings up the Light Action Window within the Light Panel

• Advanced Options - not only can the user choose to see a clock timer at the top of the GoFocus window, they can remove individual Lights from appearing in both Focused view and the GoFocus Dock. Users may also remove the Focused icon from their BlueNote Go button, as well as to disable the quick popup that appears when any Light is activated. The Temporary popups are helpful when GoFocus is Docked, but users with GoFocused in Undocked mode may find them unnecessary. There is also a shortcut to the Focused Settings menu within Advanced Options.