Just as with Zaurus As Pim, I want to use my Nokia N810 as a PIM.

There's an Address Book (Contacts) built-in.

• hmm, some complaint about performance.

• should I install this other thing? Is it as well integrated into other apps?

• should I do a simple import of my Thunder Bird Address Book to get some volume of stuff shoved in, to see? Nah, esp since someone notes that the new app sucks in stuff from the built-in app automatically.

• Need to

  • physically get [QTopia] XML file moved to Mac

  • convert to a format (Thunder Bird, Ms Outlook, etc.) that the N810 will accept (argh, have to convert myself: Qtopia Desktop has an Import function but no Export!)

  • in theory I should merge/de-dupe with Thunder Bird address book, but probably won't bother (since using it more as a PIM than as EMail Address Book).

  • import (will it really accept all the different fields?)

Calen Dar

• PimLico has a "dates" app to go with its Address Book

• [Gene Cash] has a PyThon-based Calend app, but it's written for the previous N810 OS.

Apr16'2008: installed the PimLico apps on the N810.

Apr18'2008

• copied the various XML files from Sharp Zaurus onto [SD] card, then copied from there onto MacBook.

  • card is at /mnt/card/

  • when done, unmount umount /mnt/card

• argh Blue Tooth is borked on my MacBook, and don't feel like rebooting, so have to wait to move files to N810.

• got Blue Tooth working later, moved files to "Documents" area of N810.

Apr20'2008

• trying to import addressbook.xml, it doesn't seem to show up anywhere

Apr23'2008

• move the file a bit, find right location to put it

• it still doesn't show up in the import dialog - I suspect the ".xml" is getting it filtered out.

• next steps?

  • Maybe I should copy over my Thunder Bird file after all, just to give it a try. If that works, then can probably find some hack or even write one myself in PyThon, though hate the thought of that timesuck, esp since I anticipate lack of documentation to help.

  • ooh found abx2csv app to convert the Address Book to CSV.

    • May03: argh, can't find that app - everything leads to the author's site, which doesn't seem to exist anymore

  • something more drastic?

  • May03: probably going to write little PyThon app to turn the XML file into CSV.

    • ah, will try "Python-[DSV]" first.

      • there's a CSV module in the [Standard Library]

      • is Python-[DSV] calling it?

May27'2008

• jumped ahead of myself a bit and played with the PimLico Dates Calen Dar app. It doesn't even have repeating events!

Jul02: installed some [GPE] apps.

• the Calen Dar supports repeating events!

• the Calen Dar has some sort of import function - VCal and ICal.

• it looks like the Address Book imports only individual VCard records.

  • [Gpe Sync D] may help

Jul04

• playing with the Calen Dar

  • has some strangeness in the alarm. I think you have to keep the daemon running.

• installed Tiddly Wiki

  • every time it saves I have to press through ~6 Java Script security warnings

  • it really wastes lots of screen space

    • there's a a version for the IPhone that might be better

    • but suspect the Java Script warnings will still drive me crazy there.

    • plus considering trying the GTD app

    • so post forum question about the warnings

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