Some iPods have the ability to store notes for viewing on the iPod screen. You can store up to 1000 notes that are up to 4K each in size. iData 2 provides a way to create and manage notes for the iPod. Notes can contain any text data that you might find useful when you are away from your Mac. Each record in the iData datafile will be a note on the iPod. You can use fields and/or freeform text in a datafile for iPod Notes. Field data will appear on the iPod with the field name, a colon (:), followed by the field contents.
Creating a Datafile for iPod Notes
In iData 2 you can create datafile for iPod Notes by adding a special field. The datafile can be an existing datafile, or a blank file you just created.
To add the field, select Add iPod Note Field in the Fields submenu of the Edit menu. A sheet will drop down for naming the field. You can accept the default name, or pick a name you prefer. The name of this field is not really important. It is just so you know that it is where you put the title for each note.
The data in this new field will be what shows up in the iPod menu to identify each note. If you started with an existing datafile, the title for each record will be the record number followed by the file name of the datafile. You can change this to make it clear
Note: A datafile that has a Sync ID cannot have a field added, so it cannot be made into an iPod Notes datafile until the Sync ID is removed. You could sync the file with your remote copy, delete the Sync ID, add the iPod Notes field. Then create a new Sync File to replace the remote copy.
Links
You can link to other text files on the iPod, useful if you’re
splitting them up:
<a href="link_to_other_file.txt">Text for the link</a>.
The iPod needs to be set up in the iTunes preferences so your Mac will see it as a hard drive in the Finder. Your iPod must be connected to your Mac while you set up its preferences.
1. Open iTunes and select Preferences in the iTunes menu.
2. Select the iPod icon at the top of the iTunes Preferences.
3. Click on the checkbox to Enable disk use. A dialog will appear as below.
Since the iPod is now acting as a hard drive, it will show up in the finder with an "eject" button for dismounting it. Just as you would with a FireWire or USB hard drive, you must dismount it before disconnecting it.
With the iPod showing in the Finder, you are now ready to export iData 2 records as iPod Notes.
1. Select iPod Notes File... from the Export sub-menu under the File menu. Or, click the iPod icon in the iData 2 toolbar.
If the iPod icon does not show on the iData 2 toolbar, select Customize Toolbar... from the View menu. A sheet of available icons will appear. Find the iPod icon and drag it to the desired location on the toolbar. You can choose to show the icon and text or just the icons with a popup menu at the bottom of the sheet. There is also a checkbox for showing the icons at a smaller size. This is useful if you like to use a lot of icons in the toolbar, or keep your iData datafile windows fairly narrow. Click the Done button when you are finished modifying the toolbar.
Clicking
the iPod icon is the same as selecting iPod Notes File... from the Export sub-menu under the File menu.
At
this point, iData will check to make sure that each iPod Note Name field contains some
text that is not identical with any other such field. This is necessary
because this field provides the file name for the note on the iPod, and
no two files can have the same name. If any fields have duplicate names
or if any are empty, you will see the following dialog. Either note the
fields that have problems, or click the Save List As Text File button to
save the list as a text file that you can open in TextEdit to guide you
in fixing the problem records.
2. In the Save dialog that comes up next, navigate to the Notes folder on your iPod, and click the Select button.
1. Select iPod Notes File... from the Export sub-menu under the File menu.
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