Second of the random ideas for Over The Air hacks – a Data Capture widget for Windows Mobile.
Scribble a note or capture an idea without waiting for a second or two for an app to be launched!
Enter some text in the box, then tap OK. The text will be appended to a file or Note (of your choice – specify the path it should write to in ‘Options’).
If you tap on the icon, the notes app (of your choice – again, specifying the path to it in ‘Options’) will be launched to the page the widget writes to.
Create an “incoming” or “to be sorted” note or page, and add to it throughout the day. When you’re ready, launch the notes app and go through and process what you’ve collected.
Very GTD. 🙂
It’s a lightweight C++ app, reusing a lot of the code from the Twitter client I posted about earlier.
Download a copy here
To specify paths, go to the Options dialog for “bLADE Wiki Today” from the Today screen control panel applet.
Tags: mobile, overtheair, twitter, windows mobile, windowsmobile
any chance for quick tutorial how to create today plugin in C++? i couldnt find any good tutorial on this.
i was trying to implement a mobile app in CF, but didnt know to interact with today menu.
i find ur blog very interesting, pls keep it that way!
Sorry – I didn’t see this in time! I’d be happy to share my code for the plugins with you if that would help?
Thanks for the kind comments 🙂
that would be swell! 😉
Love this! Super useful! Any chance you could modify it ever so slightly so that the text input field is configurable for more than 1 line?
Blade Wiki is an exceptionally deft piece of software, and this plugin is an extraordinarily clever addition – and embodies a highly elegant minimalism. It lacks only the “enable on-screen keyboard” checkbox that you have in TwitToday. If you could add that I would applaud from the rooftops. Without it, I can’t use it at all 🙁
@Duncan – Many thanks for the kind comments. It’s not a bad idea – I will copy across some of the newer code from TwitToday to it sometime this week.
Thank you thank you thank you! The improved version is perfect, and I think it counts as one of the ten “must have” apps for Windows Mobile, either with or without the wiki.
Was googling for howto write today screen and found your site. Would you mind sharing your code..? I believe it’ll help me learn..
@Anton – If you have the Windows Mobile SDK, you should have the Microsoft sample code for “memwatcher” – a Today Screen app. It’s a good place to start.
[…] Scribble a note or capture an idea without waiting for a second or two for an app to be launched!Enter some text in the box, then tap OK. The text will be appended to a file or Note (of your choice – specify the path it should write to in ‘Options’).If you tap on the icon, the notes app (of your choice – again, specifying the path to it in ‘Options’) will be launched to the page the widget writes to. … more […]
[…] Scribble a note or capture an idea without waiting for a second or two for an app to be launched!Enter some text in the box, then tap OK. The text will be appended to a file or Note (of your choice – specify the path it should write to in ‘Options’).If you tap on the icon, the notes app (of your choice – again, specifying the path to it in ‘Options’) will be launched to the page the widget writes to. … more […]
[…] Scribble a note or capture an idea without waiting for a second or two for an app to be launched!Enter some text in the box, then tap OK. The text will be appended to a file or Note (of your choice – specify the path it should write to in ‘Options’).If you tap on the icon, the notes app (of your choice – again, specifying the path to it in ‘Options’) will be launched to the page the widget writes to. … more […]
i downloaded and it shows up on my Today Plugin. However, when I tapped on the icon to edit the settings, it says it’s got a missing .exe file. WHen I looked into Programs subfolder, the exe file isn’t there, but the .dll file is in the Windows subdirectory. Could the exe file be accidentally excluded from the cab file?
@C H Chew – No, sorry – not coming with an exe is intentional. The idea is that you go into the Settings for the Today screen widget and give it the path to a program of your choice.
I personally use a wiki app I wrote myself, but anything that can read text files should do just as well.
Yeah! Have you seen the smart capture tool already built in to omnia phones? you take a pic of a business card and it captures the text from the photo into editable text format. Pretty smart for a phoen i think! we do alot of data capture from documents ourselves so know the process well.
http://www.pearl-scan.co.uk
http://www.pearl-repro.co.uk
This works great!!! The more I use bLADE WIKI and it´s complements, the more I love it 🙂 . I use this widget, and the path goes to my MicroSD card without a problem, even if it´s targeted to a .wik file and not a .txt one!!!
Thanks for your work Dale, and saludos (greetings) from México 🙂
Leon – Thanks very much!
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