Diffs for N810AsPim

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Just as with ZaurusAsPim, I want to use my NokiaN810 as a PIM.

There's an AddressBook (Contacts) built-in. 

* hmm, some "complaint":http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10794 about performance. 

* should I install "this":http://pimlico-project.org/contacts.html "other":http://chrislord.net/blog/Software/Contacts/ thing? Is it as well integrated into other apps?

* should I do a simple import of my ThunderBird AddressBook 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 (ThunderBird, MsOutlook, etc.) that the N810 will accept (argh, have to convert myself: QtopiaDesktop has an Import function but no Export!)

 * in theory I should merge/de-dupe with ThunderBird address book, but probably won't bother (since using it more as a PIM than as EMail AddressBook).

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

CalenDar

* PimLico "has":http://www.pimlico-project.org/dates.html a "dates" app to go with its AddressBook

* GeneCash "has":http://home.cfl.rr.com/genecash/nokia/index.html 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 SharpZaurus onto SD card, then copied from there onto MacBook.

 * card is at '/mnt/card/'

 * when done, unmount 'umount /mnt/card'

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

* got BlueTooth 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 ThunderBird 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":http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=1430 app to convert the AddressBook 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":http://osdir.com/ml/kde.users.pim/2005-05/msg00135.html drastic?

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

  * ah, will "try":http://python-dsv.sourceforge.net/ "Python-DSV" first.

   * there's "a":http://docs.python.org/lib/module-csv.html CSV module in the StandardLibrary

   * is Python-DSV calling it?

May27'2008

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

Jul02: installed "some":http://www.cobb.uk.net/NokiaIT/index.html#gpe GPE apps.

* the CalenDar supports repeating events!

* the CalenDar has "some":http://gpe.handhelds.org/projects/GPE-calendar.shtml sort of import function - VCal and ICal.

* it looks like the AddressBook imports only individual VCard records.

 * GpeSyncD "may":http://www.nabble.com/GPE-contact-import-td13049203.html help

Jul04

* playing with the CalenDar

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

* installed TiddlyWiki

 * every time it saves I have to press through ~6 JavaScript security warnings

 * it really wastes lots of screen space

  * there's "a":http://www.apple.com/webapps/productivity/itwatiddlywikiforiphone.html a version for the IPhone that might be better

  * but suspect the JavaScript warnings will still drive me crazy there. 

  * plus considering trying the GTD app

  * so "post":http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=199563#post199563 forum question about the warnings

Jul06

* entering a few more events in CalenDar. I could probably live with putting stuff in by hand for that, because I don't have that much in the future in my calendar.

* AddressBook: looks like next step is to generate a big multi-VCard file.

 * maybe VObject "will":http://vobject.skyhouseconsulting.com/ get me out of learning the VCard format.

 * or maybe generate something simpler to import into MacOsX AddressBook, which will export a multi-VCard file.

  * Mac will import multiple VCards, or LDIF, or text (CSV?).

Jul07

* working backward: export from MacOsX AddressBook, try to import into N810

 * manually enter couple records in AddressBook

 * export as VCard .vcf

  * hmm, has 'BEGIN:VCARD' lines, no 'ADD' bits

 * copy to N810 via BlueTooth

 * open file from within GPE-Contacts

 * it seems to have worked

  * note none of these had Comments, esp multi-line comments.

  * hmm, didn't bring over AIM info for a card!

   * and I can't even find way to enter any IM handle manually, either!

   * maybe that's ok, as my main concern for AddressBook is having info for offline stuff (phone numbers, physical addresses) to carry with me

  * next step: try again with some addresses having multi-line comments

Jul10

* alarms from the CalenDar seem rather random

* realize that GPE AddressBook doesn't talk to EMail or InstantMessaging apps. Then should I just go with WikiAsPim? (and just render the bulk of the data to a listing page for easy finding?)

Jul18

* side-note: continue to get random repeat alarms. But at least the original alarm comes at the right time.

 * really wish I could feed tasks from ToDoList to GPE alarms.

 * ah, realized that the built-in Clock app lets you define multiple alarms

  * that's good for stuff i want pings on almost every day

* try making a couple MacOsX AddressBook cards with multi-line comments. Export selected cards as VCard. Hey, there's no comment!

 * try single card with single-line comment. Still not exported! Are you kidding ?!?!?

 * ah, that's a "preference":http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=169576

 * try again, now get them - double-linebreaks have visible '\n\n'.

* move file to N810. Import into AddressBook (never changed the file). All the contacts came across!

 * multi-line comments came through fine!

  * but they don't wrap! Ah, actually they do, just for a wider area than the screen display!

   * if you go into edit mode for a single contact, there's a separate Note tab that wraps nicely. But that's 2 extra clicks plus risk of unintended change.

* spending lots of time trying to render a tab or CSV file that Mac AddressBook will import. Failing. Suspect it won't *import* Notes field with linebreaks, but not sure that's it. Of course it doesn't *tell* you why it won't accept a file. Even tried to replace all those linebreaks and it's still complaining.

Jul20

* consider trying to import into ThunderBird AddressBook, then export to LDIF.

 * notice that field's don't map perfectly. Other formats have work-email, home-email, similar for fax, etc. ThunderBird has work/home phone, but primary/secondary email, and I think just 1 Fax field. Probably no records I have that have real problem with that, but afraid something will get dropped somewhere...

* looking a bit more at known issues in Mac AddressBook import....

 * more "confirmation":http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=AddressBook/4.0/en/ad808.html that I need to wipe the linebreaks. But I've tried that and still getting rejected.

 * working with just 7 records plus header
 
 * counted 25 tabs in every record
 
 * well, somehow it's working now. Have everything in AddressBook
 
 * hmm, do I want to bring in ThunderBird AddressBook? Nah, this is really for street/phone which I don't have much in ThunderBird anyway.
 
* export multi-VCard file

* has 590 records, by the way

* move to N810, import. Fail!

* split it up into chunks
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