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RobertCF · 02-13-05, 01:46 AM

The majority of folders you see listed when you bring up Notes or Pocket Word are (or should be) folders that are WITHIN the My Documents folder. If you have a bunch that are not, then you should create whatever folders you need within My Documents and move the notes and Word documents to them. Then, when you click on the drop list of folders the list of folders you'll see will only be folders that you have Notes or Word files in....which should obviously be ones within My Documents.

The purpose behind how they have it on the PocketPCs is so that you don't have to navigate a ton of folders (whether they are on the PDA or on a SD or CF card) to find files. You simply need to create the folders you need---like categories. On mine I have folders within My Documents for Personal, Business, Church, etc. I click on the drop list and choose Business and I see all the notes I stored there...nothing else until I go back and choose All Folders.

Although Outlook does support categories, Pocket Outlook, as far as I can tell, does not. I'd imagine some of the fine folks who use Pocket Informant or some of the other third-party PIMs may be able to tell you if full category support exists in those apps. Personally, I find folders much easier and more intuitive to use than categories (with the exception of Contacts, which Pocket Outlook does support categories for them).

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RobertCF Aximsite Major League Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 463 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	It all starts with organization The majority of folders you see listed when you bring up Notes or Pocket Word are (or should be) folders that are WITHIN the My Documents folder. If you have a bunch that are not, then you should create whatever folders you need within My Documents and move the notes and Word documents to them. Then, when you click on the drop list of folders the list of folders you'll see will only be folders that you have Notes or Word files in....which should obviously be ones within My Documents. The purpose behind how they have it on the PocketPCs is so that you don't have to navigate a ton of folders (whether they are on the PDA or on a SD or CF card) to find files. You simply need to create the folders you need---like categories. On mine I have folders within My Documents for Personal, Business, Church, etc. I click on the drop list and choose Business and I see all the notes I stored there...nothing else until I go back and choose All Folders. Although Outlook does support categories, Pocket Outlook, as far as I can tell, does not. I'd imagine some of the fine folks who use Pocket Informant or some of the other third-party PIMs may be able to tell you if full category support exists in those apps. Personally, I find folders much easier and more intuitive to use than categories (with the exception of Contacts, which Pocket Outlook does support categories for them).