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Palm Addict :: General :: The Palm Addict Main Forum Page :: Memo replacement, any suggestions? Page 1 of 2 » Jump to page   Go     Author Topic: Memo replacement, any suggestions? (Read 3,011 times) marni Palm Addict Forum Honorable Member member is offline Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 211 Memo replacement, any suggestions? « Thread Started on Oct 30, 2006, 7:39pm » I'd welcome your thoughts on a Memo replacement, something were I can write notes and retain them for future use? Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Hans Palm Addict Forum Regular member is offline Joined: May 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 17 Location: Sweden Re: Memo replacement, any suggestions? « Reply #1 on Oct 30, 2006, 9:48pm » Hi, have you tried "bonsai" Look at www.natara.com. I use it to my memos and my todos Hans Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged lewar Palm Addict Forum Senior Member member is offline Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 56 Re: Memo replacement, any suggestions? « Reply #2 on Oct 31, 2006, 1:51am » Bonsai is a great replacement and recommended. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged ProfessorJonathan Palm Addict Forum Senior Member member is offline Joined: May 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 93 Location: Long Island, NY Re: Memo replacement, any suggestions? « Reply #3 on Oct 31, 2006, 7:01am » I use BlueNomad's Wordsmith, and have for years. It both replaces the Memopad and also adds MS Word compatibility. {Prof. Jonathan} Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Prof. Jonathan I. Ezor Touro Law Center jezor@tourolaw.edu Associate Writer, Palm Addict Jeff Pickell Palm Addict Forum Regular member is offline Joined: Dec 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 12 Re: Memo replacement, any suggestions? « Reply #4 on Nov 1, 2006, 1:45am » Memo replacement is a subject very near to my heart! I've managed to accumulate well over a hundred memos that for one reason or another I simply must have with me at all times (it might be paranoia, but maybe not! ) Your question keyed on a very specific requirement: a replacement that you could retain for future use. This is quite important, and in my mind what it really comes down to is the format that the memo gets saved as. Is the format portable? Is it readable by other programs (not just the palm desktop) Are there size limitations? Will it sync with my desktop? The answer is simple: Text. Plain old text. I maintain a directory on my macbook of text-based memos, with subdirectories for each category that I use. These directories are synchronized to the SD card on my TX using Missing Sync, so they are always up to date. On my macbook, I can edit the files with any text editor I have at hand. For editing the files on my TX, I use txtMemo (http://www.freewarepalm.com/utilities/megatopstxtmemo.shtml) to view/edit/create the files. This has allowed me a great deal of freedom in that I can name the files whatever I want, I'm not limited by size of the memo, and most importantly because they are text, I can archive them any way I want and no matter what formats come out in the future I will always be able to view my data! Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Jeff Pickell Palm Addict Forum Regular member is offline Joined: Dec 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 12 Re: Memo replacement, any suggestions? « Reply #5 on Nov 2, 2006, 1:06am » A note for Mac users: I thought I'd add a note about achieving a synchronized directory of text files without using Missing Sync. (http://www.markspace.com) It does require a wee bit of unix knowledge (since the technique relies on running a shell script from the terminal) but not too much! In order to make this work, your palm device needs to be able to connect as an external drive. Some devices such as the Lifedrive come with a program called DriveMode that provides this functionality. For the rest of us there is the wonderful Card Export II by Softick (http://www.softick.com/cardexport2/) With your palm device connected to your macintosh, activate the Card Export program and you will see a new drive show up on your desktop! You can now browse the sd expansion card in your palm device directly from your macintosh desktop! Very cool, eh? So what about synchronizing directories? Let's suppose that in your home directory (usually /Users/username, where username is the name that shows up when you open Terminal from the Utilities directory) you've created a subdirectory called "Textfiles" Within that subdirectory you could have a bunch of text documents or subdirectories containing other text documents. Utilizing subdirectories is a nice way to keep your files sorted by project, subject or however else you like. Now comes the unix magic: in order to synchronize this "Textfiles" directory with your palm's SD card, open up a terminal and run the following command: rsync -av --delete /Users/username/Textfiles /Volumes/SD_CARD/PALM/ (remember to replace 'username' with your macintosh username) This command will synchronize the "Textfiles" directory with the "/PALM/Textfiles" directory on your palm's SD card. Now you can use a text editing program on your palm such as txtMemo (http://www.freewarepalm.com/utilities/megatopstxtmemo.shtml) to view or modify your files wherever you happen to be! This is the way I used to synchronize my text files before purchasing Missing Sync. It requires a few extra steps each time you sync your palm device, but it works quite well. However, Missing Sync can do all of this plus a whole lot more! If you are a heavy palm user on a macintosh, you really should look into purchasing Missing Sync! It has simplified my data sync to the point where I don't even think twice about it anymore! « Last Edit: Nov 2, 2006, 1:19am by Jeff Pickell » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Wayne L Palm Addict Forum Honorable Member member is offline Joined: Sept 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 236 Location: Cleveland, OH Re: Memo replacement, any suggestions? « Reply #6 on Nov 2, 2006, 3:50am » I went through the same search about a year ago. Decided that i wanted a memo replacement that was compatible with Palm Desktop. I ended up choosing PsMemo. It retains the look and feel of the built in memo program, but is easier to use and has more features. And it uses the palm memo database, so just a plain-old hotsync will synchronize your memos with palm desktop (or outlook with the conduit). Oh, and it's FREEWARE. Check it out. http://www.jove21.com/palm/palmware/psmemo/ (ps: don't let the japanese scare you. Just download the zip or the prc, and you're set.) Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged PalmOne Treo 600 Wayne L Palm Addict Forum Honorable Member member is offline Joined: Sept 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 236 Location: Cleveland, OH Re: Memo replacement, any suggestions? « Reply #7 on Nov 2, 2006, 3:52am » Google's translation of the site into english: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=....are%2Fpsmemo%2F Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged PalmOne Treo 600 Jeff Pickell Palm Addict Forum Regular member is offline Joined: Dec 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 12 Re: Memo replacement, any suggestions? « Reply #8 on Nov 2, 2006, 8:15pm » If you want to stick with the memo database and format, then I'll second Wayne L's suggestion for PsMemo! Great little program! I used it exclusively for nearyl a year until I switched to plain text memos. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged LindseyDyson, Deputy Editor A Palm Addict Senior Deputy PA Boss member is offline Joined: May 2005 Gender: Female Posts: 543 Re: Memo replacement, any suggestions? « Reply #9 on Nov 2, 2006, 8:47pm » May make mention of this at some stage today on the PA front page. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Lindsey Dyson Deputy Editor Page 1 of 2 » Jump to page   Go     Forum Jump--------------------» Home--------------------» General--------------------- The Palm Addict Main Forum Page

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