A perfect place for my X files. File drawer.
Here is a nice intuitive little program I found on the site for NS Basic (a palm development platform). It was one of the apps featured to show you what is possible using it as a development environment. I really like it. Anything that put any kind of alphabet structure on the Palm is good in my book. It fills a missing gap in my opinion when it comes to searching on the Palm. I absolutely adore the Quick look up feature in Contacts. This program as you can see allows you to organize all your memos through alpha tabs. Scroll through or tap a letter and all memos whose title start with that letter are listed right there for you. Better than graffiti look up, palm find or sometimes even categories. Now if only someone could duplicate Palm’s Quick Look Up feature in their application. If you don’t know what I am taking about check out my comparison blog post between it and the iPhone’s interface. Click here to find out about File Drawer
September 8th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Doesn’t Blue Nomad’s WordSmith have this quick look-up (type) feature? I use WordSmith as a (free!) enhanced memopad. If I want to locate a memo, I type a few letters of the title and by the second or third letter, I have my memo.
WordSmith is a great application. I just wish Blue Nomad would update the 5-way Nav support for the Treo. If they did that and separate the enhanced memopad from the full wordprocessor to make a lightweight memopad application with their great formatting options, it would be a great application that would surpass the (strangely) popular Treo Memo. They could easily sell it for a reasonable price.
September 8th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
I understand what you mean. Memo plus also has this too. Simply write in your first letter with a stylus and everything scrolls to the first item with that letter.
What I find better though is Palm’s ability to use a 5 way navigator to scroll based on the available first initial of items already in your list of items. No stylus quick filtering. Quicker than a finger scroll because you get pinpoint accuracy.