Buzz Out Loud Lounge: Timestamping in notepad on a smartphone?
Timestamping in notepad on a smartphone?
by rayray8822 - 10/12/09 5:34 AMI'm still using an aging Palm Tungsten E2 to keep notes of phone calls with my students' parents (what was said, when it was said), and I came to the conclusion that the most useful feature of the Palm in this regard it the ability to timestamp the notes (shortcut character + dts = date and time automatically written into the notes).
Does the iPhone do this? Do any smartphones do this anymore? I tried to google this, and all I got was a bunch of result about timestamps on photos, which won't help me.
I'm going with no.
by R. Proffitt
- 10/12/09 5:53 AM
In reply to: Timestamping in notepad on a smartphone? by rayray8822
But looking at my WM pda I see this -> http://s175.photobucket.com/albums/w146/rproffitt2000/?action=view¤t=Timestamp.jpg
Ok, the date and time is in the file system and if I pull up Pocket Word. To do the date this press F2, go to the Tools Menu and from the Tools Menu select Insert Date. The date is then placed into your document at the cursor location. There are other options so I'll stop here.
So there you are. The file system has that info and Pocket Word has it.
Bob
Be sure and test it over a few days
by DangMI - 10/13/09 5:12 AM In reply to: I'm going with no. by R. Proffitt
I don't have PocketWord but I'm pretty sure that, in regular Word, InsertDate puts a field that updates every time you re-open the doc. I ended up removing it from templates for letters and memos because, when you re-open the doc months later to see when you wrote it, it would update to today's date! You had to look in properties for the date created, or last saved, or some such.
In the full version, there is a function key that will lock the date (again, I don't know what's in the Pocket version), and some settings in options about auto-updating, so I suspect you can work around it, but play with it a bit to make sure you don't end up finding out weeks later that you've got a problem.
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