Use Memo to Announce Upcoming Appointments and ToDo's

Appointment Book can't warn you more than 24 hours in advance of a future appointment or event. It would be more helpful if it could warn you a week in advance of upcoming birthdays. That would give you more time to purchase a gift and send it.

It's possible to correct this shortcoming by using the Appointment Book print option to print all appointments and events within a range of dates to a text file. This text file can then be opened in Memo to give an instant view of what is coming up soon.

This can be automated by using a simple macro to generate the file and load Memo to display it. This will make the feature a single keystroke away. To further automate the process the macro could be set to run automatically at night so that when the Palmtop is turned on in the morning, your next few days of appointments and events are on screen.

Here is a System Macro that will give a one week look-ahead.

{Menu}fp{Alt+H}{Tab}{Home}a{Tab}{Tab}+++++++{Alt+L}{Alt+F}{Alt+O}1{Alt+T}{F10}c:\todo\event.txt{F10}{Memo}{Menu}foc:\todo\event.txt{Enter}

Laurence Harvey

laurence@harvey-l.freeserve.co.uk