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Do you have many
scraps of paper scattered around in various places recording
interesting facts or important pieces of information?
Would you like to use your Palm Powered™ device to keep track
of all this data and keep it handy and readily available to
you, but find that the built-in Memos application (or Memo Pad
on older devices) doesn't let you organize your notes as you
would like to or make it easy enough to find a particular note
when you need it?
With a fixed limit of only 15 categories (and no
sub-categories), and no way to search other than by using the
Global Find facility, Memos isn't really equipped to provide
convenient access to your notes when the total number of notes
gets large. It can start to get clogged or overwhelmed.
"ScrapBook" is a note-taking application, featuring enhanced
organizational and search capabilities that provide easy
access to your notes, even as the total number of notes grows
larger. In addition, ScrapBook supports encryption, to provide
much better security than is offered by 'private' records in
Memos.
You can organize your notes using nested folders (as many as
you need, nested as deeply as you need), as well as by using
standard Palm OS "categories". Also, you can assign a list of
keywords to a note, and find notes by searching for one or
more keywords.
ScrapBook can search its database for multiple words at once
(not just a single string), searching keywords, titles, and
(optionally) full message texts (for non-encrypted notes).
Search results are sorted so that the best matches are
presented first.
There are a number of note-taking applications available for
Palm OS, offering enhanced capabilities compared to the
built-in application, however, what distinguishes ScrapBook is
primarily its search capability. Taken as a set, several of
ScrapBook's features help to make its search capability quite
easy to use and very efficient. "Keyword auto-completion"
(described below) helps minimize the time needed to enter the
word or words you want to search for. An internal
cross-reference enables the actual search to be performed very
quickly (without having to scan large amounts of text). And
sorting the search results (so that notes which match many of
the words being searched for are listed before notes that
match fewer words) means that the note you're looking for will
probably be at or near the top of the list.
Thus, when you know what you're looking for, a search may
often be the easiest way to go straight to the information
that you're looking for.
If you want to browse, ScrapBook supports browsing through
standard Palm OS categories as well as browsing through nested
folders. ScrapBook's "Folders" screen lets you navigate very
quickly through the nested folders with a minimal amount of
time spent scrolling the display.
ScrapBook can exchange notes, in both directions, with the
built-in Memos or Memo Pad application.
ScrapBook
System Requirements:
ScrapBook runs on Palm OS version 3.5 or higher
Requires 116kb of RAM for the program + additional RAM for
user data
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