From: Andrei Chichak (acpmiedm_at_telusplanet.net)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 09:34:05 PST
First, my experiences, then a question.
My wife has decided to use a Newton 2100 instead of a daytimer (appointment
book). She originally wanted to use a PalmPilot but when she looked at
them, she felt the screens were so small as to be useless. She is willing
to put up with the extra weight to have a usable screen.
So, I resurrected one of my stash, it has not been powered up for about 3
years. The batteries were declared to be faulty, but after about 6 cycles
of remove/insert/charge/fault they finally had enough charge built up that
the charging circuit kicked in and they took a good charge.
My wife is an Occupational therapist dealing with the mentally ill and does
a lot of home visits. She got the secretaries to do a dump of her patient's
information, but it came in a big Word file. After much messing around with
Word, Visual Studio, and Excel, I was able to come up with a file that NCU
was able to choke down to populate her Names app.
1. Excel's save-as using a text file type and a suffix of .csv will give
you a file that NCU will be happy with.
2. The carriage return format for windows is return-linefeed.
3. You have to turn off the FIFO buffering on your UART that you use to
communicate using NCU.
Now, the question, is there an app around that will help her by setting up
an appointment quickly by choosing the Attendee and it fills in the
appointment title? Something like "Appointment with Bob Smith".
I suppose the Names app could be patched so that if the title field is
blank, it would generate a title when the attendee field changes. Hmm.
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Andrei
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