Phatnotes as your peripheral brain
Back in November I blogged about Memoleaf being another way to organize your Palm Memos. Memos are a great way to keep Pearls, sinppets of info and are a great replacement for those Index cards (I sure hope Jim Zaslavsky is reading this!).
What if you are an owner of a Pocket PC? One of the worse things about Windows mobile is the horrible PIM organisation. Memos are stored as individual text files in My Documents and it is simply terrible if you try to use these “Notes” as your Peripheral Brain. You’ll need a third party app and one that seems to be popular is Phatnotes which functions as a Notes replacement for Pocket PCs. If you get the Professional edition, then the nice thing is there is also Phatnotes for PalmOS. So if you are an owner of both a Palm and a PPC, you can keep your Notes/Memos synched easily between both devices. The setup will install a Phatnotes Desktop module (you can import Outlook Memos into the Phatnotes desktop) and this will sync with both the Palm and PPC. Neat!
Screenshots:
Phatnotes on a PPC
Phatnotes on a Tungsten T3
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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… |
