Text format for palm? - Treo Forums

xdayveedx · 09-30-2006, 02:11 AM

Im looking in to putting some emails on my treo so i can recall them and future referece. I was wondering if anyone knows what the treo 650 reads as far as text files go. I tried to hotsnyc one and it said it doesnt support that file...anyone know what the treo can read?

kabeyun · 09-30-2006, 06:20 AM

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Originally Posted by xdayveedx

Im looking in to putting some emails on my treo so i can recall them and future referece. I was wondering if anyone knows what the treo 650 reads as far as text files go. I tried to hotsnyc one and it said it doesnt support that file...anyone know what the treo can read?

The Treo probably shipped with DocumentsToGo installed. Save the e-mails as text (.txt) files or MSWord files, for example, and use the DTG conduit to sync them. Alternatively, you can use Palm Desktop (or Missing Sync if you're a Mac user with this app) to store them as memos. 'Course, you can always install an e-mail app on your Treo (I'm using Chatteremail), configure an IMAP server appropriately, and acces your e-mails on either end, but that's a whole other ball of wax.

-K

xdayveedx · 09-30-2006, 11:50 AM

I dont think i have documents to go. I bought my treo off ebay almost new, but i dont think it was on there. I just need the standard edition because i only really want the word part of it. Anyone know where i can get this.....like for free? because i really dont feel like paying $30 when i should of got it free. haha.

kabeyun · 10-01-2006, 10:41 AM

Sorry, but you're not going to get anyone here to pirate software for you. We don't like that. You can try really sincere pleading e-mail to DataViz, but I don't think they'll go for it. Bundled software on newer Treos has stung many here, including myself (I had to buy pTunes and DTG, since they weren't part of the deal when I bought my 650). That's the way it goes. A colleague of mine bought a new car about 2 months before a $1000 cash-back dealer incentive. Suffice it to say, he didn't get the grand.

Go with my second suggestion: cut-&-paste the e-mail content into a memo on your computer, then HotSync it to your Treo.

-K

xdayveedx · 10-01-2006, 07:53 PM

I didn't mean to sound like i wanted it for free, if i need to buy it thats fine. THanks though

stevetaz · 10-02-2006, 06:22 AM

Hi:

When you bought it off eBay, did you get the installation CD? You might find Docs to Go on the CD even though it may not have been installed on the phone.

Just a thought and worth a look...

SteveTaz

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Originally Posted by xdayveedx

I dont think i have documents to go. I bought my treo off ebay almost new, but i dont think it was on there. I just need the standard edition because i only really want the word part of it. Anyone know where i can get this.....like for free? because i really dont feel like paying $30 when i should of got it free. haha.

ffolliet · 10-04-2006, 02:59 AM

have to confess, live stevetaz i didn't see d2g as i installed the software; it's one of the option as well as the palmware. in most installations i've done the "extra" stuff is usually a taster of expensive stuff you don't need/want.

have a look on the disk.

just to extend this into philosophy tho and purely as discussion...

if xdayveedx has purchased a treo, even from ebay, surely he should have been supplied the essential disk by the seller? reasonably a palm is only half as much use if you can't synch it or use desktop? if the seller failed to do that wouldn't it be reasonable for him to be offered that by a friend?

i completely agree, as clearly does xdayveedx, that asking for free copies of paid for software is not the way to go.

benjie · 10-04-2006, 02:07 PM

From what I read, 'emails on my treo so I can recall them..." = you sound like a prime candidate for IMAP PUSH email. Have you considered it? If not and you do not mind looking in to it, give it a try.

IMAP means what is on the server is on your desktop and your hand held device. PUSH means that when it hits the server, it is "pushed" to whatever device is "logged in" to the mail server. This means "real time" email when it is received and that the email and the email clients are the same - sorry for repeating it.

IMAP means you do not have to store email anywhere other than on the server. Now, taking it a bit further with the Palm OS (POS for short).

ChatterEmail is the big guy on the block when it comes to email. ChatterEmail is the big guy on the block when it comes to IMAP. ChatterEmail is the ONLY guy on the block when it comes to PUSH email.

A big guy sends an email to your xxx (not necessarily a xxx) account and that account is set to "forward" email to a PUSH server (there are a number of them, I use Fastmail and Everyone.net). When the big guy email hits the PUSH server, it is then pushed to your IMAP email client(s) - that means your desktop if you are running an IMAP client (I do) and your device - all at the same time! Yep and there are times when it hits the device first, times it hits the desktop first and other times when they both make noise at the same time.

Now, I have Fastmail set to forware to Everyone.net. The computers I have access to at work do not support the Everyone.net email site (security reasons), so I send at work using Fastmail. There are some that have my Fastmail address (the original one), others have the Everyone.net address - it really matters not. Send an email to my Fastmail address, Fastmail then forwards it to Everyone.net - then to my device.

If a message hits my Gmail address (NEVER USED - lousy implimentation of email), it is also forwarded to my Everyone.net address - and in the blink or two of an eye lid, the message is where I am - which is where my Treo is at - it is always with me.

Going further, when an email hits the email client (let us assume a Treo 600/650/700p) running ChatterEmail (I have licenses to SnapperEmail 2x and ChatterEmail and use ChatterEmail exclusively), I get the notification (I use the notification options in ChatterEmail supplimented by the NAGGING ability of Butler), check ChatterEmail and take whatever action is necessary. I can either reply to the email, move that email to another folder, or delete that email. The nice thing about it, replied email options include saving the reply to the SD card and forwarding it to a specific mail box on the server. Move that email to another folder means moving it to another folder on the server in real time. Delete that email means deleting it totally or in my situation, deleting it from the Treo and moving the deleted email to a folder on the server so that I can review deleted emails later and decide on a final action.

This also means that when you MOVE email to another mail box, that mail box does not have to be "on line" in order to be moved. And if you need to access that email, you then can SYNC x days back to get the email in question. Wow!

Another great thing about ChatterEmail is that it has options to save email immediately to the SD card, which SnapperEmail does not do when I last checked for that feature.

Anyway, sorry for getting wordy here - give IMAP/PUSH/ChatterEmail a try - I sincerely believe you will find it meets your needs. I am a very heavy email user and ...

Ben

Quote:

Originally Posted by xdayveedx

Im looking in to putting some emails on my treo so i can recall them and future referece. I was wondering if anyone knows what the treo 650 reads as far as text files go. I tried to hotsnyc one and it said it doesnt support that file...anyone know what the treo can read?