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H o w y o u r d a t a b a n k w o r k s
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Here are some further explanations on how information in this data bank is
organised. If you have completed the tutorial in the previous section, you
should be familiar with the basic menu flow.
All information about each particular individual is kept on 2 related
screens. The first screen contains mainly contact details and the second
screen date particulars. The person's name is given on the top left hand
side of the date screen so that you always know who you are looking at.
The text you enter in the pop-up windows is stored in a special file. This
means that virtually no additional disk space is taken up by persons for
whom you make no comments. This is an advantage over database types where
a fixed amount of disk space is consumed for each record regardless of its
contents.
The lay-out of the second screen containing the dates warrants further
explanation. There are two sections, one for business deadlines and the
other for birthdays and Christmas cards.
The reason why you may enter up to 5 birthdays for an associated person is
that you may have the family's address on the first screen and the first
names of each family member of the second. This saves you having to keep 5
records for a single family with the same address. It is not necessary to
state the surname again when specifying dates. If in doubt, the system
will tell you who the person is associated with when you use the date
advisor. Nicknames are therefore acceptable.
You can enter up to two business deadlines for each individual or company.
Always consider WHO is most directly associated with the event. It is that
person's information with whom the deadline is connected. For example, if
your share options expire in a few months time and you wish to be reminded
by your computer, where in your data bank would you store this deadline?
It would have to go on the second screen of the company or person whom you
will be contacting regarding this matter, your stock broker for example.
Here is a tip regarding the deadline and birthday comments. There is one
text window for what may be 5 different birthdays. If you make a comment
regarding one person, how will the program know to retrieve the comment for
that particular first name and not for others? The answer is that you have
to mention the person's first name anywhere in your notes. If you do that,
the computer will guess that this message may be of interest to you when
the person's date comes up and automatically offer you a retrieval.
Further information regarding the date advisor is given in "New User Tips"
under the date advisor menu.