The Edit Reminder screen looks like the following:
On this screen, you can specify:
the original date of the event you with to remember,
You can create or edit further notes about this event by selecting the Notes button.
You can also delete an event from the database by clicking on the Delete... button. When this button is clicked, you will be asked to confirm the deletion of the event with the following dialog:
If you click Yes, the event will be deleted and the main screen will be displayed.
When you click on the date of the event, the following date specification screen is displayed:
On this screen you can use the fields to enter the day, month and
year for the event. You can also click on the date selector icon, ,
and the standard Pilot date selection form will be displayed:
When you select the date on this form, the date will be placed into the Date Selection form fields.
If you do not know or do not wish to store the year for an event, just select the year on the date selection screen and clear it out.
Please Note: The Date Selection form understands the Pilot Preferences information. So, if you have your Pilot set up to use the D.M.Y date format, the Date Selection Form will look like the following:
Any number may be put into the warning days field. This number is then used by Reminder to determine if an event if near or not. When the difference between the event's date and today is less than or equal to the number of warning days, then the event is considered near. The main screen of Reminder provides an option button which allows you to see only the near events or all events in your database.
Reminder allows you to assign the event into a category in a manner similar to the built-in applications. Click on the Category pop-up to get the list of categories defined in the database:
The categories shown here are the default categories which Reminder will install when first loaded. You can select a category to assign the event into from this list. Also, if you wish to edit the categories, you can select the Edit Categories... options from that pop-up list and the standard Pilot category editing screen will be shown:
You can rename, add or delete categories using this screen. When you rename a category, all the events assigned to the old named category are moved to the new category name. When a category is deleted, all the events assigned to the delete category are moved to the Unfiled category. The category highlighted when the OK button is clicked is the one selected from the list on the Edit Reminder form.
If you do not wish a category to be assigned to this event, select the Unfiled category.
When a new event is created, the editing screen will be brought up with a blank event:
The information on this screen is defaulted to use today's date and to show the age of the event. You can edit this event as described above and when the Done button is clicked, the new event information is saved.
The Edit Reminder form has two menus. The first one is the Edit menu:
The items on this menu act the same as they do in any Pilot application.
The second menu is the Options menu:
The About Reminder... item brings up the About Reminder form.
The Phone Lookup... item will take the currently selected text, try to find that text in the Pilot's built-in Address book and return a more complete text string. For example, if you had my name in your address book, entered and selected "Steve Kienle" in the event description field, then when you selected the Phone Lookup... menu item, that selected text would be replaced with "Steve Kienle sckienle@worldnet.att.net".
The Mail Reminders... menu item allows you to create a mail message describing all of the reminders currently being displayed on the main screen to whoever you wish. This option is available only on Palm OS 3.0 devices.
When you use the menu item, the following dialog is displayed:
This dialog is quick similar to the one which would be shown on the Main Screen. The only difference is an option to include the attached Note to the mail message or not.
When you have provided the information you want to, click on the Mail button to create the mail message and add it to your Pilot's built-in Mail application's Outbox. When that process is completed, the following notification dialog will be displayed:
If an error occurs, an error dialog will be displayed and no mail message will be created.
A sample of the message created is shown here: