Shortcut tip for your Palm
Miss using Shortcuts for your Treo650?
Well there is a freeware replacement called Shortcut5
Shortcut5 appears in your Preference Panel and you can set your definitions there.
For example I defined a shortcut for “admission”
Name:adm (note you don’t put the “.” when defining the name, only when you call up the shortcut)
Shortcut:
admission
So in Agendus when I am typing my meeting notes for a patient, I just enter
.adm
and the text automagically becomes “admission”
For the Datestamp and special system shortcuts there are some codes.
E.g. for the Datestamp, the shortcut I define
.ds as the shortcut for Datestamp
the Shortcut code is : @@ds
You can define long phrases and multiline text too if you like (e.g. simple templates)
For example I define a patient template
.pt
as
Diagnosis:
Referring:
Medication:
Follow-up:
and the above text will appear in the notes for me to fill in the blanks after the “:”
You can use Shortcuts wherever you need to enter text e.g. Memopad. It also works in Documents2Go.
Really powerful. And free
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About the author, Alan: Alan Teh is a Malaysian Physician who specialises in Hematology-Oncology & Stem cell Transplantation. He has been using Palm PDAs since 1997 and is absolutely reliant on them. His current PDA is a Palm Pre and is a strong advocate of the webOS platform, Palm's latest operating system. Caught the blogging bug in 2004 and has been addicted ever since… |
