Strategy: Organising with a PDA and mobile phone
15 Keywords: Pda, Palm, Handheld, Organiser, Time Tables, Time Management, Dyslexia, Specific Learning Difficulties, Specific Learning Disabilities, Specific Learning, Differences, Notes, Emails, E-mails, E Mail
"I can download stuff down onto the PDA. I can’t download stuff onto my mobile phone at the moment, but I will be able to once I get the Nokia 6820 off eBay. My mobile phone is Bluetooth-linked onto a PDA and then PDA can then access the world using WAP and GPRS to use the Virgin.com connection. It gives me full access to the web. Then, I use my Internet for research, accessing all the library facilities ...
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In between or before lecturers I can also download my timetables onto the PDA so that I don’t actually have to access the web, so I can use it as a Word document... I check the timetable hasn’t been changed – that kind of thing, because we’re changing a lot."
Extra notes:
Documents to Go allows you to synchronise spreadsheets and other documents with your computer. It may also be possible for you to organise your e-mails on your PDA if they are in Outlook on your computer but Glimmermail is the Palm program that works with hotmail.
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"I’m checking the timetables to make sure when I’m supposed to be somewhere, and when I’m supposed to be – because I have a terrible habit of driving half way into Portsmouth and suddenly thinking: “Oh no, I should be in Southampton!” Or I go to St Mary’s when I should be down in Langston … and although it’s not far to drive, it‘s extremely annoying and frustrating."
- GuenevereTip
Using a Palm PDA? Stop the stylus slipping with a screen protector. Increase all that you see on the screen with Teal Magnify . Diddlebug is open source and will allow you to add a note with an alarm as a reminder. Handango have a wealth of software for PDAs including medical dictionaries and spell checkers.
