Shelf

The Shelf is where you store and retrieve jobs, to and from the Desktop. When you first use Hoku, the Shelf has a few ready-made jobs for you to use. You can drag them to the Desktop, modify them, and store them back on the Shelf under the same name, or under a different name to avoid overwriting the original.

The leftmost box shows, in red, the name of the folder you are looking at, starting with “/”. The top-level folder is named “shelf”. You can make lower-level folders and choose their names; they appear in their own boxes to the right of the folder-name box.

Besides the main Shelf there are two more shelves, Archive and Trash. Left-click the leftmost box to switch between them.

You can export any item on the Shelf or the Desktop to a text file (ending in .hoku) on your computer. You can keep that file as a backup or share it with others. Any exported item can be imported back onto the Shelf or the Desktop. Whole folders, with all their contents, can be exported and imported too.

For all the Shelf commands, see Shelf Menus – Right-click Popups.