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`The Little Palm Book
`Corbin Collins
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`Peachpit Press
`1249 Eighth Street
`Berkeley, CA 94710
`(510) 524-2178
`(800) 283-9444
`(510) 524-2221 (fax)
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`Find us on the World Wide Webat: http://www.peachpit.com
`Peachpit Press is a division of Addison Wesley Longman
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`Copyright ©1999 Corbin Collins
`Coverillustration ©1999 Trish Booth
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`Editor: Marjorie Baer
`Technical Editor: Michael Bergen
`Production/Interior Design Coordinator: Amy Changar
`Interior Design: Robin Williams
`Graffiti font courtesy of Jeff Carlson
`Compositor: Maureen Forys
`Cover Design: John Tollett with Mimi Heft
`Cover Illustration: Trish Booth
`Indexer: Karin Arrigoni
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`A seamless way for humans and computers to communicate
`has long been the Holy Grail of information technology. Sci-
`encefiction tells us that we will soon be conversing with our
`computers like old school chums. And wouldn’t it be nice to
`arrive at work in the morning, tell your machine in your nor-
`mal voice what you want done, and then go have a coffee
`while it does your job?
`Unfortunately, that sweetlittle scenariois still quite a ways off.
`People and computersare vastly different, and it’s a struggle to
`get one to understand anything generated by the other. Simply
`getting an affordable machine to understand your handwriting
`turns out to be notat all simple. Apple’s Newton was oneof
`the more notable handwriting-recognition failures and was
`famous for misreading what you wrote. If you wrote, “Hi my
`name is Bob” the Newton might understandit as “Hit my mane
`you slob.”
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`THE LITTLE PALM BOOK
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`Andactually, there arestill other ways to get stuff into your
`Palm: the $79.99 GoType keyboard is one. And add-on
`programs like Jot! that let you use the whole Palm screen as
`the Graffiti area are another—more on these in Chapter 11.
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`- Learning Graffiti
`--With Graffiti, you can use the stylus to enter any character
`»found on a standard keyboard. If you write your. characters
`_ precisely the way Graffiti wants you to, you will. be able to .
`‘write text, punctuation, and numbers into your Palm with 100 |
`‘percent accuracy. Learning basic Graffiti letters and numbers |
`- is easy and fast. Mastering punctuation and extended charac-
`- ters takes a bit longer.
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`- That’s why the Palm’s successful Graffiti writing system is so
`- smart: it doesn’t try to bring the mountain to Mohammed. In
`. other words, instead of trying to teach the Palm to recognize
`: the idiosyncratic way you write letters and numbers in your
`‘ normal handwriting, the Graffiti system asks that you learn a
`‘ simple alphabetthat is almost exactly like the one you already
`‘ know.
`: Graffiti is the primary wayof inputting your writing and data
`- into your Palm,butit isn’t the only gamein town. Two onscreen
`- keyboardsare built into your Palm, oneforletters and one for
`- numbers. The keyboards are great in a pinch, especially when
`. you need an. extended:or..accented. character,..and..they are
`‘always only one tap away.
`: The third way of entering text and other data into your Palm
`‘ is to type it into your regular computer and then HotSync. You'll
`- learn more about that in Chapters 9 and 10.
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`I already mentioned it but it bears repeating: Never use an
`ink pen or anything else with a hard tip to write on the
`Graffiti screen. If you can’t find yourstylus, in a pinch you
`can use a toothpick (which will also work as a reset pin—
`and you can store it in your battery door).
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`At home base—the Applications screen—tap the Graffiti icon
`‘ to call up the Graffiti practice program (see Figure 3.1). The
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`3: GRAFFITI AND THE ONSCREEN KEYBOARDS
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`Figure 3.1 The Graffiti practice program
`starts off by explaining the two sides of
`the Graffiti area.
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`should be as simple as possible, a simple
`downstroke on the screen should be enough
`to signify an “i” or a “1”—but unless the
`Palm knows one is a number and oneis a
`letter, you’d have to comeupwitha slightly
`different strokes, which would make them harder to remem-
`ber, which would make the whole system less useful.
`Tap the Try It! button to get to the screen shownin Figure 3.2.
`Read the screen and tap Next to get to the next screen, where :
`you actually can try it (see Figure 3.3).
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`letters side and the numbersside. In Graf-
`fiti, you write letters on the left side of the
`little marks, and numbers on theright.
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`It may seem counterintuitive atfirst to have
`to split up numbers andletters, but doing
`so simplifies the strokes for you and makes
`it easier for the Palm to understand what
`you're writing. How? Well, think about how
`you’d makewrite theletter “i” and the num-
`ber “1.” Because any Graft character
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`peek at the first five characters in the
`Graffiti alphabet.
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`tice your Graffiti skills by writing letters.
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`c Note the drop-down arrow at the top right of your screen.
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`Each screen in the Graffiti practice program has a name,
`and you can go directly to any of them by tapping on that
`arrow and then tapping yourselection.
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`- Letters
`’ On your Palm, in the Graffiti area, practice writing the letters
`‘ one by one, trying to make your strokes exactly the way you
`- see them in the “ideal characters” reference table onscreen.
`- Start where you see the dot and write eachletter in one stroke
`- (except for “x,” which does take two separate strokes).
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`. As-you write them, the moment you lift the stylus from the
`’ screen, the Palm shows you exactly the stroke you made: in
`’ the blank area on the left side of the screen. That gives you a
`' way to fine-tune the way you stroke yourletters by seeing how
`far off you are each time (see Figure 3.4 for an example of a
`: failed “a”). When yourstrokeis off, the Palm sometimesreads
`- what you wrote as a differentletter, or it refuses to even spec-
`- ulate and prints nothing onscreen.
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`(Frevious|] (Next) [Done] [ Tips|= et printed nothing
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`- Notice the strokes for inserting a space (a single line drawn
`‘ to the right), a backspace (a single line drawnto theleft), and
`’ a Return (an angle going down from upperright to lowerleft).
`' If you mess up a letter and wantto erase what you did, just
`‘ write a backspace (line to the left). In fact, a backspace will
`‘ erase anything you write in Graffiti.
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`Ir screen.
`If you makealetter close enoughto the ideal, the Palm rewards |
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`you by printing the desired letter onscreen (see Figure 3.5).
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`ig on that
`As you practice, you’ll get faster, and there seems to be no |
`limit to Graffiti-writing speed except your own skill—that is,
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`there’s no lag time waiting for the Palm
`to think about things, and you can never_Graffiti strokes for letters
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`of the uppercase version of eachletter (the sole exception is
`h), so start gearing your mind toward all capital letters. Note
`that some Graffiti characters, such as f, k, and t, are only
`partially formed uppercaseletters.
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`To capitalize the next letter, begin
`with the Caps Shift stroke, To lock, use
`the Caps Lock Stroke. To return to
`lowercase from Caps Lock, write the
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`Caps Shift stroke again.
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`. Capitals
`- Tap Next when you’re donepracticing your lowercaseletters.
`- Or tap the drop-downarrow at the top right and select Prac-
`- tice Capitals. Either way, on your Palm you should see a screen
`: like Figure 3.6. Capital (uppercase) letters in the Graffiti sys-
`: tem are just like small (lowercase) letters except that they begin
`" with the Caps Shift stroke, which is a line drawn straight up
`‘in the Graffiti area.
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`and the Caps Lock stroke
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`The Caps Shift stroke simulates the Shift key on your keyboard.
`- Draw the CapsShift stroke once, and the next letter you write
`- will be capitalized, whereas the letter after that is lowercase
`- again.
`: Whatif you want every letter to be capitalized? The Caps Lock
`’ stroke (two successive lines drawn straight up) works like your
`' keyboard’s Caps lock key, meaningthat all characters you write
`‘ from then on will appear on the Palm’s screen as uppercase,
`- until you turnit off. To turn off Caps Lock, draw another Caps
`- Shift line. The Caps Shift and Caps Lock strokes work on both
`- sides of the Graffiti area.
`I had the most trouble writing the letter v, which always
`ended up onscreen as u. It’s hard to remember, but if you
`can get in the habit of writing it backward (rightto left),
`you'll be rewarded with a perfect v every time.
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`In the Graffiti Number area
`below, write
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`i 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
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`Punctuation
`Tap the Previous button twice, or tap the drop-downlist and -
`choose Practice Letters again. You’re going to practice punc- .
`tuation marks and symbols. All punctuation marks and sym- |
`bols begin with a punctuation shift, which is a single °
`dot—onetap.
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`On your Palm, go ahead and just tap once anywherein the -
`Graffiti area (both the numberandletter sides work for punc- -
`tuation) to invoke the punctuation shift. You should see a -
`large dot appear in the lowerright corner of your screen (see -
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`‘ase letters.
`select Prac-
`ee a screen
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`Numbers
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`Tap Next when you’re done with capitals, or tap the drop-down
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`arrow at the top right and select Practice Numbers (Figure 3.7).
`You write numbers on the right side of the Graffiti area. Most .
`people have notrouble with numbers. The 4 is sometimestricky— .
`try making the angle sharper.
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`dur Caps
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`Mostpeople have no trouble learning basic rules of writing let- °
`_ Graffiti strokes
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`ters and numbersin Graffiti. If you practice for ten or twenty °
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`_ for numbers
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`minutes, you’ll pretty much have things down. However, you'll :
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`be writing along thinking “this is easy,” and all of a sudden you -
`need & or $ or @ or # or even ! or ?—what do you do then?
`Keep reading.
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`OOMOOTON
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`Figure 3.8 The large dot in
`the lower right corner
`reveals that the Palm is
`ready to accept a punctua-
`tion or symbol character.
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`Figure 3.8). That’s the sign that you are now
`in punctuation mode.
`Practice punctuation and symbols as long as
`you like, concentrating on the ones you use
`most. As you look at them all, you’ll proba-
`bly murmur, “But Pll never rememberall of
`those!” And you’re right, you won’t. Which
`is why there is the Big Line command.
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`Graffiti Help from the Big Line: You may
`recall the Big Line from Chapter 2. It’s the
`command that you invoke by drawinga sin-
`gle big line up the entire face of your Palm,
`starting in the Graffiti area. By default, the
`Palm is set up to makethe Big Linecall up
`Graffiti Help.
`
`Go ahead and invoke the Big Line now.If you
`don’t see a screen like Figure 3.9, it means
`you probably changed the Big Line’s settings
`in Chapter 2. To fix that, tap the Applications
`icon, tap Prefs, tap the drop-down arrow and
`choose Buttons,
`tap Pen, and select Graffiti
`Help from the drop-down arrow—now you can
`do the Big Line.
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`Grail Hokefor
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`Figure 3.9 Don’t worry if you can't remember all the Graffiti strokes—all this Graffiti Help is
`only a stylus swipe away.
`Tap the drop-down arrow in Graffiti Help to work your way |
`through the different screens, all shown in Figure 3.9. Graf- °
`fiti Help isn’t so much an application as an onscreen refer- -
`ence. Once you find the stroke for the character you want, tap -
`Done, the button that appears on every screen in Graffiti Help,
`-
`and you will be returned to wherever you were before you
`drew the Big Line.
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`Graffiti has strokes for many more characters, as shownin Fig- .
`ure 3.9. To access the extended characters, you write the |
`Extended shift stroke, which is a diagonal line from upperleft |
`to lower right. After Extended shift is invoked, you write the -
`stroke for the extended character. The Extendedshift onlylasts -
`for one character, after which the Palm immediately reverts to -
`normal Graffiti mode.
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`Gee Shortcuts]
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`ds - [Date Stamp]
`dts - [Date and Time Stamp]
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`Graffiti ShortCuts
`A timesaving feature called Graffiti ShortCuts
`lets you write something once and then assign
`a ShortCut to it. You may have used a simi-
`lar technique on your PC’s word processor,
`where it’s probably called a macro. A Short-
`Cut can contain up to 45 characters. To invoke
`a ShortCut, you write the ShortCut stroke (a
`little loop, like a cursive lowercase “L”) and
`then write the character(s) you already
`assigned as the shortcut. For example, you
`could make a ShortCut for your name.
`
`Tap Prefs and from the drop-down arrow at
`the upper right select ShortCuts. You should
`see a screen like Figure 3.10. There you have
`a list of the built-in ShortCuts that came with
`your Palm.
`
`. Graffiti tips
`« Write as large as you can while staying within the
`boundaries of the Graffiti area. You can actually write so
`big you go outside the area a bit, andit’s still okay.
`# Don’t write too slowly. Write at the quick rate you nor-
`mally would.
`« Write straight up and down,not at an angle.
`= In the box your Palm came in, there was a white folding
`card with Graffiti characters and some very handy gray
`Graffiti reference stickers. Two stickers fit perfectly on the
`inside of the flip cover on the Palm III and V models.
`« When you get stuck, remember the Big Line—Graffiti
`Help always there and ready for you.
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`. Giraffe is like a deck of children’s Flash cards—something edu-
`. cational disguised as a game(see Figure 3.12). In Giraffe, char-
`’ acters fall from the sky, and you have to write the Graffiti
`’ strokes for each one you see before it hits the ground. If the
`’ Palm recognizes the stroke, the character disappears. As the
`" game progresses, everything speeds up, and more obscure char-
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`Giraffe should be in the Add-Ons folder on the CD-ROM.If
`you can’t find your CD-ROM or if you have the MacPac2,
`which doesn’t include Giraffe, you can supposedly download
`the file giraffe.pre for free from www.palm.com, but I was
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`- The Onscreen Keyboards
`- When you'refirst learning Graffiti, you may get intimidated
`- or discouraged, and you’ll be longing for a keyboard. The Palm
`. has three onscreen keyboards (letters, numbers, and interna-
`. tional), and at first you may regard them as yoursalvation.
`- But all too soon, as. you discover just how slow it is to poke
`‘ along tapping teeny tiny keys on that itty bitty.screen, you'll
`' finally admit to yourself that Graffiti is faster for routine text
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`Still, for everything there is a season, and the onscreen key-
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`two bottom corners, you'll see two dots, one surrounded by .
`“abe” and the other by “123” (see Figure 3.13). You can tap .
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`The numerical keyboard contains many of the punctuation
`marks you need when typing text.
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`’ up the third and probably most useful keyboard: the interna-
`‘ tional keyboard (see Figure 3.15). Use this keyboard if you
`need to correctly write accented characters. Let’s face it: you
`‘ probably won’t remember how to write the accented charac-
`- ters in déja vu or Métley Crtie. Words like those are excellent
`- Opportunities to call up the international keyboard.
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`If you have a lot of text to enter into your Palm, such as
`all your addresses and contact info, or if you need to write
`a long memo or email, using the onscreen keyboard would
`be like digging a grave with a toothpick. And even Graffiti
`isn’t going to be fast enough for you for long stretches of
`data. In those cases, you are much better off using the Palm
`Desktop software on your computer. That software, which
`you'll learn about in Chapters 9 and 10, duplicates the Palm’s
`primary built-in programs on your regular computer, where
`you are quick as lightning on your real keyboard. After you
`write your memo or email or enter all your addresses or
`whatever, you simply perform a HotSync, and voila—the
`data is transferred to your Palm (more on HotSync in
`Chapter 9).
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`- Gentle reader, you deserve congratulations! If you’ve read Part
`- lof this book, you understand the basics of your Palm device,
`- how to set it up, and how to enter data into it. Now you are
`- ready to actually do something with your knowledge. In PartII,
`. you’ll learn how to use the Palm’s built-in programsto get orga-
`. nized, keep track of everything, and look very cool doing so.
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`Howto use Graffiti to write notes and memos
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