Notes View (NV)
The Notes View is a single view that displays Outlook Notes in any folder within My Documents in main memory, storage cards, or Flash ROM storage, including PhatWares PhatNotes and PhatPad notes and WAV sound les. Outlook Notes are shown in a hierarchical format depicting their location in the le system and PhatNotes show up in a tree of their respective databases. This wide choice of note types allows Pocket Informant to truly be the one and only place to use Notes. Pocket Informant further improves upon Windows Mobile Notes by offering the ability to categorize the note and to set an alarm on the note to display at a future time.
Editing Notes
The note editor in Pocket Informant is one of the most advanced on the Windows Mobile. You can set font styles and styles, like Bold, Italics, Underline, Strikethrough, and even justify the text to left/right/center. Also supported is bulleted and indenting to the left and right so that you can have hierarchically bulleted lists. When editing Notes for PIM items like appointments, tasks, or contacts your note may be limited in size. By default the limit will be about 64 kilobytes which is a database size limitation imposed by Pocket Outlook. For recurring appointments due to the way the database stores those notes, your limit will vary and may be as low as 1k in size depending on how many occurrences of the appointment have their own notes. Notes in the Notes View have no limitation in size except for memory. The format of the note also affects the note size. If you use just plain text then youll be able to store a lot more in the note. If you use any rich text features the size of the data increases quite a bit more quickly. Using ink or sound uses up note space even more quickly. In fact sounds embedded within PIM notes are not supported.
Default Notes Folder
You can set a default folder for new notes by performing a tap/hold operation on a folder in the Notes View and choosing: Set Default Folder.
Hiding Folders
By default, Pocket Informant shows all the My Documents folders and subfolders. Not all of these folders will be used for notes, and so it is possible to hide these folders in the Notes View. To hide a folder, tap-and-hold on the folder, and select Hide Folder.
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Naming of Notes
Typed (rich text) notes are automatically named using the rst line of text from the note. Ink and voice notes are named with the creation date and time. You can choose your own name for new Notes by using the New Entry bar in the Note tab. Just type in a name for the note and press return or tap on the green arrow. The new note dialog will then open so that you can create the Note itself. You can rename a Note by tapping and holding on it in the list and choosing Rename to open an edit eld.
Sorting Notes
To sort, tap on the Notes option icon at the bottom of the display and choose a sort.
Voice Notes
At the bottom of the Notes View is a button to create WAV les. Just tap on this icon and a oating toolbar will display allowing you to record a new sound le. These sound les are typically used for voice notes and are recorded using the WAV format.
Voice Note Alarms
You can assign alarm times for a WAV le. Just tap/hold on a WAV le in the Notes View and choose the date and time for it to play. It will automatically wake up your device and play your WAV le. You can also set an option in the Options window that will automatically bring up the alarm dialog when a new WAV le is created.
PhatNotes (PhatWare Corp.) Integration
If you own a copy of PhatNotes, you will see your databases and notes automatically in Pocket Informant. The databases all show closed by default. You can open each database and display that databases notes without having to close another database. The notes will show up in the Preview window and when you edit the notes they will open directly within the PhatNotes advanced editor to enable PhatNotes specic features, including the categories for that note. Furthermore, you can create, delete, rename and duplicate PhatNotes notes directly within Pocket Informant without ever opening the PhatNotes application.
PhatPad (PhatWare Corp.) Integration
Pocket Informant supports PhatPad notes starting with PhatPad 4 complete with note preview within Pocket Informant. You cannot edit them directly within Pocket Informant, however, and any operation on a PhatPad document opens up the PhatPad application.
