I'm a recent switcher from the Palm OS, and so far I'm very pleased with my WM experience. One bit of software I miss on my new Touch that I had on my old Palm device was "ShortCut5" which let me quickly enter commonly used text (my e-mail address, my name, etc.). For example, I would type ".em" in any text field in Palm OS and it would replace it with my full e-mail address. This saves A LOT of time and finger cramps when logging into websites. I've searched high and low and haven't found a WM equivalent.
I'm basically looking for the Quick Text feature of messaging, but being able to use it in any text field in the OS!
Any recommendations?
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In a now ancient pda I could, provided the calendar app itself had focus, create new calendar entries simply by starting to type [on the hardware keyboard].
A new entry would be created on whatever day had focus, and simply pressing Enter after entering the text would close the "new entry" dialog box, accepting default values for the other fields.
This way I could, during a briefing or similar, rapidly create skeleton entries on at least the correct days and jot down a word or two on each. I could usually, later during the meeting fill in the details from memory.
Is there any calendar application that would allow me to do the same on a current pda with hardware keyboard, such as the Hermes? Currently, in lack of options, I've downgraded to a paper almanac, but that well... sucks... for a number of reasons.
I admit having been away from the WM scene for a while, so I apologize in advance if I'm asking about something annoyingly obvious.
Naturally I could record the meeting, but fiddling with extracting info from the recordings during the meeting itself isn't an option, and doing it "later" usually becomes "never", and people are sometimes uneasy about beeing recorded.
Hey,
Does anyone know if it is possible, through the supplied T-Mobile 2.26 ROM or third party software, to create custom contact fields? For example, say I want to have one contact called Papa John's Pizza and inside that contact have three fields named Anytown, Springfield, and NYC each with a number. As it stands now I have to either make a seperate contact for each location or have one contact and make each location say home, work, and work2. The latter choice makes it near impossible to remember which number goes to which office. I have many contacts that have multiple numbers that do not fit neatly into the supplied fields. On my old S60 phone this was quiet a simple task but I just can't seem to figure it out on WM5. Thanks for the help.
You can use IneSoft Address Book to add custom contact fields. The extra fields will be save as Note.
To mark a phone number you can put the text inside the phone number itself. E.g.
Work: +123456789 (Springfield)
or even
Work: Springfield +123456789
where "Work:" is the field name provide by Contacts application. You can use any character that can't be dialed (e.g. not a digit, * or #). Though some letters may cause problems, e.g. 'p' may mean 'pause'... I write my comments in Russian and therefore has no such problems
I use this solution for a long time. It is not specific to an OS or application.
And yes, IneSoft Address Book is good, not only for additional fields! This was the first application I purchased for my TyTN.
Lurker0 said:
To mark a phone number you can put the text inside the phone number itself. E.g.
Work: +123456789 (Springfield)
or even
Work: Springfield +123456789
where "Work:" is the field name provide by Contacts application. You can use any character that can't be dialed (e.g. not a digit, * or #). Though some letters may cause problems, e.g. 'p' may mean 'pause'... I write my comments in Russian and therefore has no such problems
I use this solution for a long time. It is not specific to an OS or application.
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This would be really neat if Voice Commander 1.6 would recognize it, but it doesn't.
Blackberrys hotlink phone numbers, email addresses, and url's automatically out of the box. MarkNDial and TreoSelectText do this on POS but you need to select the text first. I can't find anything to do this on WM. Does it exist?
For those of you not familiar with MarkNDial for the Palm OS, it allows you to highlight a phone number (in a task for a calendar appointment) and dial it directly.
Does anyone know of a similar app for WM (expecially one that works in Notes)? Any help would be appreciated.
What is needed needs to be as simple as a click or 2. Selecting items is too much against my Treocentric ease of use. On Blackberrys it auto recognizes phone numbers, email, and url's in its notepad and other apps out of the box. Scroll to an item, click it, and it asks if you want to do the selected thing. One more click executes the instruction. Beautiful it its simplicity.
I have hundreds of numbers in notes I started in my Blackberry days for contacts I use infrequently so as to not clutter up my Outlook contacts, then I carried them over to my 700wx and found out that this functionality was sorely missing (not a big surprise for WM, but where are the third parties here). I am now a WM/Treo convert and am longing for the 800w.
The pending arrival of the 800w has renewed my interest in perfecting my Treo device and I would love to see this super efficient function added to WM to make the 800w even more useable then it will already be. Of course your device may vary but this would be a boon to all WM devices.
So is there anything out there like this or anyone to write it? I would gladly pay for a program or a script to fix this WM annoyance.
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Hannip over at treocentral.com wrote and/or modified a MortScript to perfrom this function from a mapped button. In totally works, and does even more!!!
In summary:
MultiSwitch6 checks what app is running in the foreground and does the following.
1) If mail app - open the folders (fix for a major non-one handed annoyance).
2) If calendar - find phone numbers and prompt to call.
3) If notes - prompt to call the phone number where the cursor is.
4) Else run Pocket Internet Explorer or modify for app of choice.
Follow the thread and get the MortScript here (note: latest script is around post #11):
http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthread.php?t=143164&posted=1#post1455542
Hi,
I'm looking for an app that will parse the text and recognize phone numbers (in text messages, email, calendar, and web browsing) and be able to highlight that number and then be able to one click call.
Are there any existing apps?
that would be great. like the windows mobile smartphones without touchscreen do.
i would really appreciate something like that!
yes that would be great i've been looking for somethingnlike hat. it woyld cery useful
Is there a way to force prediction on the keyboard for a field that wouldn't normally have this?
Can I take that as a no?
no,take that as "we don't get you,explain it a bit" and "be patient,you've just waited for an hour and are already bumping"
Actually it was 25 hours, but I will try explain a little better
When on a webpage, both the regular browser and dophin browser allow text entry to parts of webpages.
Some fields such forum message fields (ie the one I am typing in), give predictive text, allow you to type quicker.
Some fields such as usernames do not.
Is there a way to force a field to allow predictive text.
ah,so....that was clear enough...i did spot that,but didn't need that option...but you can choose browser to remember your password
It's actually not just a username field, that was simply an example.
I believe it's done by default..i believe when you have an input field and you have the keyboard, tap the gear that signifies the settings for the keyboard and toggle to settings that will suit your needs.
You can also add words when you type predictive text by pressing the arrow that faces down when you see the word suggestions, and manually type in a word suggestion so that the predictor will give the newly created word as a suggestion. For instance, i've set it so when I type p-r-i on my phone, it autosuggests my username, princedwi.
Hope this helps!
Nope, sorry, still no good.
When I type a text message I get the predictive text, if I type "examp" it will fill in "example", however there are some boxes (mainly in web browser on some websites), php shoutbox for example, that simply don't, if I type "examp" then that's what it says.
Hitting the gear brings up text input settings, but the settings are ok for lots of other text fields, just not all.
Just a guess, but perhaps these particular fields don't use the standard Android 'widget' (not as in desktop app, but as in 'form' control as we call it in programming). For shoutboxes, I'm pretty sure they'll use a custom sort of javascript control, which may not actually use the default android textbox.
Could this be the issue?
Quite possibly.
And would there be a way to force predictive text in those fields.
I get where youre coming from mate - some text entry fields default to T9 and others in other programs default to ABC entry (catching you and me off guard!!)
T9 = Text on 9 keys, so slightly different, but think you know what I mean.
Don't think so
I've filed a bug against prediction being enabled for a password field in the stock Android (bad idea - passwords are not (should not be) dictionary words). This makes me think that prediction is a setting of the input field, and your application (Browser in your case) code simply disables it.
Other than reverse-engineering and patching the app, I don't know of a way to force prediction/autocomplete on.