Section Three - Using the Diary

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This chapter will show how you can use the Cambridge Z88 Diary application to organise your engagements, and plan your time. It demonstrates how to:

  • Enter engagements into the Diary
  • Search for and list out all engagements relating a particular thing
  • Use the Diary with the Calendar popdown to find any date very quickly

 

Entering the Diary

Before using the Diary, make sure you have set the correct time and date on the Clock popdown, as described in Section One.

You can enter the Diary in either of two equivalent ways, whichever you find most convenient:

Either: go into the Index, by pressing the 

INDEX
key, and select the Diary from the APPLICATIONS list by pressing the  and  keys until the Diary item is highlighted. Then press the 
ENTER
key to enter it.

Or: type D. You can do this from anywhere, even another application.

Once you have made entries in the Diary, it will appear on the list of SUSPENDED ACTIVITIES in the Index, but there can only be one copy of the Diary.

Type CT to go to today's date, and the Diary screen display similar to the diagram shown below will appear:

 

This gives you a page for today's date, onto which you can type information in any form you like. The information is stored permanently in the diary, and you will be able to refer back to it on another occasion.

Making a Diary entry

Try typing the following appointments onto today's page in the Diary, pressing

the 

TAB
and 
ENTER
keys where indicated to lay out the lines neatly:

Work:

TAB
     10.00 Sales meeting 
ENTER

Simon: 

TAB
    12.30 Pick up from station  
ENTER
 

You can actually lay out information in the Diary however you like, but it is a good idea to label your appointments, as in the example above, because you will then be able to locate everything in a particular category by searching for the appropriate label. An example of this is given below.

Moving beween days

You can move between days in the Diary by typing

 to go to the next day

 to go to the previous day

Try moving to the day after tomorrow, by typing  twice.

Then enter the following appointment:

Work:   

TAB
  11.00 Present report to Board    
ENTER
 

Searching for Diary entries

The Diary provides a powerful Search command which enables you to find and list out all appointments in a particular category.

As an illustration, the following example provides a list of all appointments relating to Work.

First select the BLOCKS menu, by pressing the 

MENU
key until BLOCKS is highlighted on the menu bar at the left-hand side of the screen. Then move the cursor to highlight Search on the menu, and press 
ENTER
to give the command.

The following prompts will be displayed:

------------ STRING TO SEARCH FOR --------- 
EQUATE UPPER AND LOWER CASE ........... Yes
SEARCH ONLY MARKED BLOCK .............. No 
PRODUCE LIST .......................... No
PRINT LIST ............................ No

Below the prompt STRING TO SEARCH FOR type

Work:

Then press  three times to move the cursor to the line

PRODUCE LIST .......................... No

and type Y to alter the value of the option to Yes.

Now press 

ENTER
, since the other options are not relevant, and the appointments will be listed:

Thursday 17th March 1987 
Work:   10.00 Sales meeting
Saturday 19th March 1987 
Work:   11.00 Present report to board

Of course, in your case the dates will be different, corresponding to the information you have used.

Using the Calendar and Diary together

By calling the Calendar popdown from within the Diary, you can move quickly between different dates, and the Diary will then give the page for the date you have selected.

For example, having forgotten a friend's birthday on the 17th March, you decide to make an entry in the Diary to make sure you do not forget it the following year. Use the following procedure to find the right day very quickly:

C Select Calendar popdown

Go to next year

  

ESC
Escape back to Diary application

 

You are now on the diary page for the same date one year later, and can type in the reminder.

Refer to the following section for a full list of the Calendar operations.

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