"Hugh Eagle" <> wrote in message
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> Our Palm device has started playing up and we would like to use our
> Pocket PC device to keep Notes in a manner similar to what we are used
> to on the Palm.
>
> When we write a new Memo on the Palm or in Palm Desktop we allocate it
> to a Category and the Memo gets synchronized along with its Category
> whenever we HotSync the Palm with the desktop. It is easy to filter
> Memos by category simply by selecting the Category name from a
> drop-down list.
>
> So how do we emulate this behaviour on a Pocket PC? On first looking
> at Outlook, the obvious way to is to create a new Note in the Notes
> folder and allocate a Category. Unfortunately, it seems that
> Categories are not carried over to the Pocket PC. So my second idea
> was to create subfolders in Outlook (either within Notes or within
> Personal Folders) to simulate the Categories which we require. Sadly,
> it seems that subfolders in Outlook are ignored by ActiveSync.
>
> If we create a new Note on the Pocket PC and Move it to a subfolder of
> My Documents, after a sync it appears in the Notes section of Outlook
> with <SubfolderName\> prefixed to the first line of the Note. If we
> create a Note in Outlook and store it in the Notes folder then, after
> syncing, Move it on the Pocket PC to a subfolder it subsequently
> appears in Outlook with the subfolder name prefixed.
>
> This procedure provides a solution of sorts. The trouble with it is
> that (a) the process of pseudo-categorising a Note written in Outlook
> by moving it to a subfolder on the Pocket PC is extraordinarily
> long-winded and (b) the list of notes in Outlook will get very long
> with no obvious way of filtering the list by pseudo-category.
>
> A further problem is that, because we are using folder names on the
> Pocket PC as pseudo-categories, whenever we want to choose a
> pseudo-category to filter Notes by or to move a Note to we have to
> scroll through a long list of other folder names that have nothing to
> do with our categorisation of Notes. To an extent we can ameliorate
> the problem by prefixing pseudo-category folder names with an
> underscore so that they appear at the top of the list, but that is far
> from ideal!
>
> Is there a better way of achieving what we want using the built-in
> software? If not, are there any freeware tools that will help? It
> doesn't seem much to ask!
I've not used a Palm so have no idea how it works, but look at Phatnotes.
Notes can be colour coded and there are categories which can be filtered.
www.phatware.com
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