Palm for Dummies

Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Pilot, PalmPilot, Palm Whatever -- Make Up Your Mind

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Getting to Know Your Palm Organizer

Part II: Getting Down to Business

Part III: Palm Organizers and the Outside World

Part IV: Going Outside the Box with Your Palm Organizer

Part V: The Part of Tens

Conventions Used in This Book

How much do you need to know?

Some helpful terms

Icons Used in This Book

Part I: Getting to Know Your Palm Organizer

Chapter 1: What Can a Palm Device Do?

What Is This Thing, Anyway?

What's on the Outside of Your Palm Device?

Application hard buttons

Scroll buttons

Power button

Contrast wheel

Reset button

The Screen

The display area

Soft buttons

The Graffiti area

Which Palm Device Do I Want?

What Do the Standard Applications Do?

HotSyncing Is Definitely Hot Stuff

Getting Charged with Your Palm

When Batteries Are Included

Chapter 2: Going in Stylus

Graffiti

The Graffiti tutorial

Graffiti letters and numbers

Moving the Graffiti cursor

Making capital letters without a Shift key

Punctuating your text

Graffiti whiz secrets

Getting your numbers

The amazing Graffiti fish loop

The Graffiti ShortCut symbol

The On-Screen Keyboard

Other Text-Entry Tricks

Other writing systems

Keyboards

Chapter 3: Making Your Palm Device Your Own

Setting General Preferences

Setting the time

Setting the date

Setting the Auto-off interval

Setting the sound volume

Turning off beaming

Setting Button Preferences

Setting Format Preferences

Using the Security Application

Setting your password

Deleting a forgotten password

Hiding private items

Setting Up ShortCuts

Adding a new ShortCut

Editing a ShortCut

Deleting a ShortCut

Hacking Up Your Palm Device

Chapter 4: Tips for Saving Time with Your Palm Computer

General Time-Savers

Using ShortCuts

Beaming a business card quickly

Beaming anything else

Using your finger rather than the stylus

Enter the current time

Reassigning a hard button to your favorite program

Application Time-Savers

Pressing hard buttons to change categories

Viewing different dates by pressing buttons

Un-cluttering the Date Book

Cut, copy, and paste

Adding multiple items to a category

Graffiti Time-Savers

Start writing to create new items

Open Graffiti Help with a single stroke

Part II: Getting Down to Business

Chapter 5: Names and Addresses in a Zip

Accessing the Address Book

Putting Names in Your Palm Device

Adding a new name

What's in a name? Editing an address record

Attaching a note to an address record

Marking your business card

Using the Names That You Entered

Finding Mr. Right (or whoever)

Deleting a name

Deleting a note from an address record

Setting Address Book preferences

Setting up custom fields

Replacing Your Address Book

Action Names

Address Pro

LinkPak

Chapter 6: Doing It NOW with To-Dos

Adding New To-Dos

Creating a to-do item

Entering details for a to-do item

Attaching notes to items

Viewing Items by Category

Adding categories

Deleting categories

Renaming categories

What to Do with the To-Dos You Do

Have I got a job for you? Beaming to-dos!

Changing to-dos

Undoing a mistake

Marking the to-dos that you've done

Deleting a to-do

Deleting a note

Setting preferences for the To Do List

Looking up an address and phone number

Purging to-dos you've done

Chapter 7: Thanks for the Memos

Take a Memo

Adding items

Reading memos

Changing items

Categorizing items

Making a memo private

Using What You Have

Deleting items

Viewing memos by category

Changing fonts

Setting preferences to organize your memos

Beaming your memos

NotePad -- A Different Approach to Memos

Other Memo-rable Options

TakeNote!

InfoSelect

SuperNote

Chapter 8: The Date Game

Date Book Views

Day view

Week view

Month view

Making Dates

Adding appointments the simple way

Adding appointments the complete way

Scheduling all-day events

Setting alarms

Adding notes to appointments

Using Address Book lookup

Setting up repeating appointments

Marking items as Private

Putting Appointments in the Past

Deleting appointments

Setting preferences

Purging the Date Book

Using DateBook+

Making DateBook+ your date book

Selecting DateBook+ views

Adding new DateBook+ items

Creating floating events

Using the DateBook+ To Do List

Using the Daily Journal feature

Setting appointments

Saving time with templates

Undeleting items

Duplicating items

Putting Your Palm Calendar on the Web

AnyDay.com

Yahoo!

Visto

Excite

WeSync

Chapter 9: Beaming Data from Your Palm Device through the Air with Infrared

The Beaming Thing

Sending an item

Receiving an item

Sending a category

Receiving a category

Sending an application

Receiving an application

Beaming into the Future

Chapter 10: Special Delivery: Using Palm Mail

Making Sense of the Palm Postal System

Working with Your Messages

Creating a message

Reading a message

Replying to a message

Forwarding a message

Deleting a message

Purging deleted messages

Saving drafts

Sending a blind copy

Sorting messages

Customizing Your Palm E-Mail

Setting HotSync options

Filtering messages

Using signatures

Setting truncating options

Other E-Mail Programs

MultiMail Professional

One-Touch Mail

AOL Mail

Part III: Palm Organizers and the Outside World

Chapter 11: Installing and HotSyncing to the Desktop Program

Installing Palm Desktop for Windows

Connecting the cradle to your PC

Now, you get to install Palm Desktop

To HotSync or Not to HotSync . . . Just Do It

Chapter 12: Operating the Palm Desktop Program

Palm Desktop Basics

Understanding the Palm Desktop interface

Arranging appointments in your Date Book

Arranging entries in your Address Book

Setting up custom fields

Doing stuff with your to-dos

Working with memos

What does that Expense button do?

Working with the Drag To icons

Furnishing Your Palm Device

Checking memory

Installing applications

Deleting applications

Protecting Your Turf

Restoring Palm organizer data

Taking one step forward with Backup Buddy

Archiving Your Palm Computing Stuff

Viewing archived items

Returning an archived item to your Palm device

Accommodating Multiple Users

The Palm Device Name Game

Part IV: Going Outside the Box

with Your Palm Organizer

Chapter 13: Wireless Wonderland

The Ways of the Wireless Warrior

Why Should I Get a Palm VII?

Your Palm.Net Account

Checking your Palm.Net account from a Palm VII

Checking your Palm.Net account on the Web

Sending and Receiving Wireless E-Mail with iMessenger

Creating a message

Reading a message

Replying to a message

Checking Signal Strength

Using Query Applications

Creating Your Own Palm Query Applications

Why OmniSky?

Wiring Your Palm to a Cell Phone

Beaming to the Web

Chapter 14: Using the PalmModem

PalmModem Basics

Setting up your modem

Setting up your Palm device to use the modem

Setting Up Your Palm Device for a Modem HotSync

Entering your Modem HotSync phone number

Disabling call waiting

Setting up the Palm Desktop for a Modem HotSync

Palm Computing on the Internet

Setting up your Internet connection

Sending and receiving REAL e-mail

Setting up a Palm Internet e-mail program

Sending and receiving Palm Internet e-mail

Browsing the Web

Sending a Fax with Your Palm Device

Chapter 15: Springboarding to More Visor Features

8 MB Flash Module

Backup Module

OmniSky Modem

Eyemodule Digital Camera

Handspring Modem

InnoPak/2V

OmniRemote

MiniJam MP3 Player

InfoMitt Pager

SixPack Combo Card

Chapter 16: Palm Software by Profession

Actor

Architect/Building Professional

Association Executive

Athletic Coach

Bartender

Comedian

Couch Potato

Editor

Electrical Engineer

Environmentalist

Help Desk Technician

Insurance Agent

Lawyer

Mafia Boss

Manager

Meeting Planner

Minister

Molecular Biologist

Musician

New York City Taxi Driver

Parent

Physician

Pilot

Psychic

Realtor

Salesperson

Stockbroker/Investor

Supervisor

Teacher

Telemarketer

Writer

Part V: The Part of Tens

Chapter 17: Ten Things You Can't Do with a Palm Device -- Yet

View Two Programs at the Same Time

Rename Applications

Install More Than One Springboard Module at a Time

Define Expense Entries

Link Items between Programs

Search and Replace Text

Create an Appointment That Spans Two or More Dates

Use Superscripts and Subscripts

Assign Multiple Categories to One Item

Categorizing Dates

Beam E-Mail

Other Things a Palm Device Can't Do

Chapter 18: Ten Nifty Palm Accessories

Palm/Stowaway Folding Keyboard

Canon BJC-50 Printer

QuickLink Pen Personal Scanner

Seiko SmartPad

Extra Styluses

Palm Travel/Recharger Kit

Card Scanner

TRG Memory Boards

Minstrel Wireless Modem

Cases

Chapter 19: Ten Ultracool Commercial Software Programs for Palm Devices

Quicksheet

CardScan

Synchronization Programs

Documents To Go

Pocket Quicken

PocketJournal

Info Select

BackupBuddy

InstallBuddy

iSilo

HanDBase

Chapter 20: Ten (Or So) Troubleshooting Tips

"My Palm Doesn't Connect to Microsoft Outlook"

"HotSync Doesn't Work"

"My Screen Taps Don't Work"

"My Screen Is Blank"

"The Menu Button Doesn't Work"

"My Palm Device Won't Turn Off"

"The Program Buttons Stick"

"Graffiti Is Always Wrong"

"My Screen Is Too Dark"

"My Palm Device Won't Start"

"Beaming Fails"

"I Got a 'Fatal Exception' Error"

Chapter 21: Ten Internet Resources for Palm Computing

The PalmPilot Web Ring

PalmPilotForDummies.com

Palm Computing

InSync Online

Handspring

Handango

Palm Computing Newsgroups

PalmPower Magazine

Smaller.com

Visorcentral.com

Chapter 22: The First Ten Things You Should Do with Your Palm Organizer

Connect Your Palm Device to Your Computer

Set the Time and Date

Fill Your Address Book with Names from Your Desktop Computer

Check Out the Keyboard and Learn Graffiti

Create Your Business Card

Enter an Appointment

Look Up Someone

Issue a Command

Install a Program

Read a Book

Appendix