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import them into Notebooks.
In Palm Desktop, view all memos
From the Categories column, select one category
From the “File” menu, choose “Export…” and
For Module set to Memos
For Items, set to the subset of Memos (it defaults to all the memos not just the
ones in the particular category selected in step 1b)
For Format, set to Tab & Return
Choose a filename, destination, and manually add the file extension .palm
Click on Export
Open the exported file in Text Edit.
From File, choose “Open…” and select the file that was created by the Palm export.
In the document, select one of the bold paragraph marks (¶) and from Edit, choose
Copy. Depending on your text encoding, this mark may also look like this: ¦
From Edit, choose “Find…“ and in the window that appears
Paste the paragraph mark you copied into the “Find” space
Type the | (pipe) character in the “Replace with” space
Click on Replace All
Save the file (overwriting/replacing the prior version)
(If your text contains special characters you should save the file with Unicode text en-
coding)
Make sure the file’s extension is .palm
Import the .palm file into Notebooks, for example by
dropping the file into a shared book (see WiFi Sharing)
putting the file into your Dropbox folder and synchronize
putting the file on a WebDAV server and synchronize
using any of the options described in the import section or in the handbook
After import, the file will be displayed with a generic icon. When you open it by tapping
on its name, Notebooks extracts the memos and produces
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