PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide, Second Edition

The Memo Pad

The plastic hardware button in the lower-right corner of the PalmPilot screen launches the Memo Pad. This program always starts up with a home page that lists the first line of every memo you’ve already written. Tap a line to open the corresponding memo page, as shown in Figure 4.27. Consult Chapter 3 for tips on word processing without a keyboard.

Figure 4-27. The Memo Pad greets you with an index of first lines (left). Tap one to see the complete page (right).

Memo Pad’s Familiar Interface Elements

Many of the Memo Pad program’s features are familiar from the other PalmPilot programs. Pilot and PalmPilot models offer two boxed As at the bottom of the memo page, which switch all text (in all memos) between two type sizes; on the Palm III and later models, those boxes have been replaced by a Font command (in the Options menu) that offers a choice of additional fonts. (On such models, you can choose one font for displaying the startup home page index, and a different font for the actual memos.)

The Details button opens up the Preferences screen shown in Figure 4.28, where you can assign a memo to a particular category and mark it as private (see Section 4.1.7 earlier in this chapter). You can also use the Phone Lookup and Find commands, also described in that section.

Figure 4-28. The ...