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- Page 1 Electronic Publishers IC-142 DIGITAL BOOK ORGAN ORGAN User’ s Manual For Use with the Franklin Digital Book System S C H E D U L E JUNE ÷ Z-IT Z-IT ® ™ ™...
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Page 2: License Agreement
FRANKLIN. Through your purchase, FRANKLIN grants you a personal and nonexclusive license to use the DIGITAL BOOK on a single FRANKLIN Digital Book System at a time. You may not make any copies of the DIGITAL BOOK or of the data stored therein, whether in electronic or print format. -
Page 3: Table Of Contents
Contents Key Guide ... 4 Introduction ... 6 Getting Started ... Installing the Organiz-It ... 8 Selecting Topics ... 9 Tips for Beginners ... 10 Viewing Help ... 12 Clock ... 13 Setting the Date and Time ... 14 Schedule ... 16 Making Schedule Entries ... - Page 4 Contents World Time ... 32 Finding Locations ... 33 Scanning the Menu ... 34 Entering Locations ... 35 Changing Locations ... 36 Calculator ... 37 Making Calculations ... 38 Using Previous Results ... 39 To Do ... 41 Making a To Do List ... 42 Finding &...
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Page 5: Key Guide
Clears to the main screen of a topic. CLEAR Shows the main menus. MENU No function. GAMES Shows special characters to type. MORE Locks top row of letters to type numbers L I S T (DBS-1 & -2 only). Shows special menus. SPEC Exits the Organiz-It. - Page 6 Gold Key Combinations* Selects the Personal Phone Book. Selects the Business Phone Book. Selects the Clock. Selects the Calendar (dates). Selects World Time (foreign). Selects To Do (goals). Selects the Calculator (math). Shows the next appointment. Selects the Schedule. Selects the Expenses. Exits an entry without saving changes.
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Page 7: Introduction
Your Organiz-It organizer that works in your Digital Book System This unique organizer has nine main functions, or topics: Business Phone, Schedule, World Time, Clock, Calendar, Calculator, Personal Phone, To Do, and Expenses. The Organiz-It can also communicate with personal computers via the serial port on certain Digital Book System models. -
Page 8: Getting Started
Getting Started If you’re using the Organiz-It for the first time, read this section. It explains basic terms and tasks that you need to know. -
Page 9: Installing The Organiz-It
Installing the Organiz-It You must install the Organiz-It digital book in the Digital Book System before you can use it. WARNING: Never install a digital book when the Digital Book System is on. If you do, information en- tered in it or any other installed digital book(s) may be permanently erased. -
Page 10: Selecting Topics
Selecting Topics Before you can use one of the main functions, or top- ics, of the Organiz-It, you must select that topic. 1. Press MENU 2. Press the arrow keys to highlight a topic on the Topics menu. A check marks the currently selected topic. The flashing arrows at the bottom of the screen show which arrow keys you can press to move around the screen. -
Page 11: Tips For Beginners
Tips for Beginners These tips apply to all or most of the topics in the Organiz-It. Using Special Menus Many tasks require you to use special menus. To view a special menu, you press This is a special menu. To select an item on the menu, press the arrow keys to highlight it and then press without selecting an item, press Typing Special Characters... -
Page 12: Viewing Complete Menu Items
Tips for Beginners Typing and Locking Numbers If you are using a Digital Book System without separate number keys, you normally type num- bers by holding row of letters. When using an Organiz-It in these models, you can lock the top row of letters to type numbers only by pressing numbers, press At some entry lines, such as those requesting... -
Page 13: Viewing Help
You can view a tutorial that explains the basic func- tions of the Organiz-It. 1. Press MENU 2. Select Tutorial from the Other menu. 3. Scroll down to read. 4. Press MENU Help is Always at Hand To view a help message at virtually any screen, press HELP Changing the Shutoff Time... -
Page 14: Clock
Clock The Clock can be set to any time or time zone. You can also set the Clock to standard or daylight savings time and display 12- or 24-hour times. -
Page 15: Setting The Date And Time
Setting the Date and Time You should set the Clock the first time that you use the Organiz-It. You can reset it at any time. The Organiz- It’s built-in battery powers the Clock when the Organiz- It is removed from the Digital Book System. 1. - Page 16 Setting the Date and Time Setting the Hour Display The Clock can display 12- or 24-hour times. To change the display, press selected. Then select Display 24 hour Clock or Dis- play 12 hour Clock . Setting the Clock to World Times You can also set the Clock to the time zone of any World Time location.
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Page 17: Schedule
Schedule The Schedule is an electronic date book. In it, you can enter meetings, annual events, and notes. -
Page 18: Making Schedule Entries
Making Schedule Entries You can schedule appointments, meetings, etc. 1. Select Schedule from the Topics menu. Or hold and press 2. Press MENU 3. Press ENTER 4. Enter a year, month, day, and time. To type p for p.m ., hold 5. -
Page 19: Finding Schedule Entries
Finding Schedule Entries You can search for Schedule entries by date or by words in their event and notes. Read the next page for all your options. 1. Select the Schedule topic. 2. Type a date or other Schedule search. 3. - Page 20 Finding Schedule Entries More Ways to Search the Schedule Search by. . . month only year only month and year generic day generic time period words in events and notes dates followed by words in events/notes Understanding Searches Search words are case insensitive. If you search for john , you will find John .
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Page 21: Changing Schedule Entries
Changing Schedule Entries You can easily change or delete Schedule entries. 1. Find any Schedule entry. 2. Press SPEC 3. Press ENTER Or select Delete Entry and go to Step 6. 4. Enter your changes. To exit without changing, hold . -
Page 22: Viewing The Next Appointment
Viewing the Next Appointment You can view your next appointment without select- ing or searching the Schedule. Your next appoint- ment is the Schedule entry most closely following the current time on the Clock. 1. Select the Schedule topic. 2. Press SPEC 3. -
Page 23: Calendar
Calendar The Calendar lets you view months and years. You can also go directly from a calendar to the Schedule to view Schedule entries. -
Page 24: Viewing Calendars
Viewing Calendars When you select the Calendar, the current month ap- pears. You can then scan other months and years. 1. Select Calendar from the Topics menu. Or hold and press 2. Press the arrow keys to move the highlight. 3. -
Page 25: Viewing Schedule Entries
Viewing Schedule Entries You can view your Schedule entries by selecting their dates from calendars. Dates with Schedule en- tries are marked with a dot. 1. Find any calendar. 2. Press the arrow keys to highlight a date marked with a dot. 3. -
Page 26: Scheduling From The Calendar
Scheduling from the Calendar You can also make new Schedule entries directly from any calendar. 1. Highlight a date on any calendar. 2. Press SPEC 3. Highlight New Schedule Entry 4. Press ENTER 5. Enter a Schedule entry. To learn how, read “Making Schedule Entries.” You can make an entry for the current or any other date. -
Page 27: Phone Books
Phone Books In the Business and Personal Phone Books, you can save names, addresses, phone numbers, and notes. -
Page 28: Making Phone Book Entries
Making Phone Book Entries Phone Book entries are listed by last name, so you must enter a last name in each entry. The other items in the entry are optional. 1. Select Business Phone or Personal Phone from the Topics menu. Or hold and press and press... -
Page 29: Finding Phone Book Entries
Finding Phone Book Entries You can search for Phone book entries by names, addresses, numbers, or words in their notes. Read the next page for all your options. 1. Select the Business Phone or Personal Phone. 2. Press CLEAR 3. Type a name or other Phone Book search. 4. - Page 30 Finding Phone Book Entries More Ways to Search the Phone Books Search by. . . name company city state country area code full phone number words in notes Understanding Searches Search words are case insensitive. If you search for johnson , you will find Johnson . Incomplete words find whole words.
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Page 31: Using The Locate Menu
Using the Locate Menu You can find Phone Book entries by selecting one or more categories from the Locate menu. 1. Select the Business Phone or Personal Phone. 2. Press MENU 3. Highlight a category on the Locate menu. 4. Press ENTER 5. -
Page 32: Changing Phone Book Entries
Changing Phone Book Entries You can easily change or delete your Phone Book entries. 1. Find any Business or Personal Phone Book entry. 2. Press SPEC 3. Press ENTER Or select Delete Entry and go to Step 6. 4. Enter your changes. To discard your changes, hold . -
Page 33: World Time
World Time World Time lists the time and day of the week for cities and countries around the world. You can also add your own World Time locations. -
Page 34: Finding Locations
Finding Locations You can find the current time and day in World Time locations by searching for cities and countries. NOTE: The Clock must be set to the correct local time and date for the World Time times and days to be accurate. -
Page 35: Scanning The Menu
Scanning the Menu You can also find locations by scanning the World Time menu. Usually, you need to type only the first few letters to find a location on the menu. 1. Select the World Time topic. 2. Press MENU 3. -
Page 36: Entering Locations
Entering Locations You can add your own locations to the World Time topic. Their times must be set relative to the interna- tional date line. 1. Select the World Time topic . 2. Press MENU 3. Press ENTER 4. Enter a location (e.g., city or country). To move the cursor, press the arrow keys. -
Page 37: Changing Locations
Changing Locations You can change or delete any location that you have added to the World Time topic. You cannot change or delete pre-entered locations. 1. Find a World Time location that you entered. 2. Press SPEC 3. Press ENTER Or select Delete Entry and go to Step 6. -
Page 38: Calculator
Calculator The Calculator adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides, and performs other math operations. You can also save your results and use them in later calculations. -
Page 39: Making Calculations
Making Calculations 1. Select Calculator from the Topics menu. Or hold 2. Type a number. To type a negative number, hold hyphen key. To type decimals, use the period key. 3. Press a math function key (+, -, x, or ). 4. -
Page 40: Using Previous Results
Using Previous Results You can save your calculations and use them later. 1. Make a calculation. 2. Press SPEC 3. Select Save this Result . 4. Type a name of up to 10 characters. To exit without saving, press 5. Press ENTER 6. - Page 41 Using Previous Results A Quicker Way to Use Previous Results Rather than selecting a previous result from a menu, you can type its name at the Calculator line. For example, if you had saved a result named calc1 , type calc1 at the Calculator line. (Read the note below to learn how.) Then press to use it in your calculations.
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Page 42: To Do
To Do The To Do topic lists your important tasks. You can prioritize, change, and delete your things to do. -
Page 43: Making A To Do List
Making a To Do List 1. Select To Do from the Topics menu. Or hold 2. Press ENTER 3. Type a thing to do. You can type up to 300 characters. 4. Press ENTER To exit without saving your entry, hold press BACK 5. -
Page 44: Finding & Changing To Do Entries
Finding & Changing To Do Entries Once you have To Do entries, you can find them by scanning the To Do menu. Then you can change or delete them. 1. Select the To Do topic. 2. Highlight an entry on the To Do menu. You can type the entry or scroll to it. -
Page 45: Expenses
Expenses The Expenses topic keeps track of your expenses for any time period. You can also calculate your expenses by category or by payment method. -
Page 46: Making Expense Entries
Making Expense Entries You can record expenses by date, item, category, payment method, and amount. 1. Select Expenses from the Topics menu. Or hold and press 2. Press ENTER 3. Enter the requested information. To change a line, press 4. Press ENTER Or hold and press... -
Page 47: Finding & Changing Expenses
Finding & Changing Expenses Your expense entries are listed on the Expenses menu in the order that you entered them. Here is how to find, change, or delete them. 1. Select the Expenses topic. 2. Highlight an entry on the Expenses menu. You can type the entry or scroll down to it. -
Page 48: Calculating Expenses
Calculating Expenses You can calculate your total expenses by category or by payment method. 1. Select an entry from the Expenses menu. 2. Press SPEC 3. Highlight Compute Category Sums or Compute Payment Method Sums. 4. Press ENTER This is a sample list. 5. -
Page 49: Protecting Information
Protecting Information The Organiz-It provides password-only access and can copy information to and from other Organiz-Its and personal computers. It also has a built-in battery to protect your information when the Organiz-It is removed from the Digital Book System. -
Page 50: Assigning A Password
To change or erase your password during a ses- sion, select Name this Card , edit the password, and press ENTER word, call the Customer Support Department at Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., toll-free, at 800-762-5382. twice. . If you forget or lose your pass- SHIFT... -
Page 51: Gauging The Memory
Gauging the Memory You can check how much of the Organiz-It’s memory is in use. 1. Select Memory Gauge from the Other menu. 2. Press BACK Understanding the Memory The Organiz-It has 128 kilobytes of random-ac- cess memory (RAM). This memory is dynamically allocated, so the amount of information that you can save in a topic depends on the total memory available. -
Page 52: Copying An Organiz-It
Check the memory gauges of both organizers before you copy. 1. Install a second Organiz-It, or the Franklin Per- sonal Organizer (IC-107), into the Digital Book System. -
Page 53: Copying To And From Pcs
Copying to and from PCs You can copy information to and from an Organiz-It to a personal computer (PC) using the serial port found on certain Digital Book System models. Your PC must be MS-DOS stalled communications program. NOTE: The steps in this section assume you are us- ing the Terminal communications program included ®... - Page 54 Copying to and from PCs Copying to a PC 1. In the Organiz-It, select Copy Data from the Other menu. 2. Select Copy to PC . 3. Highlight and press Have ASCII Format and either All Topics or Cur- rent topic in view. 4.
- Page 55 Copying to and from PCs ® About IntelliLink ® IntelliLink is a Windows -based program that cop- ies information between hand-held organizers and ® PC-installed organizers such as Lotus Organizer If you use IntelliLink, you must select IntelliLink Format as an option when copying to or from the Organiz-It.
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Page 56: Appendix
Appendix These pages review how to use the Digital Book System. -
Page 57: Digital Book System
Digital Book System Resetting the Digital Book System To reset the Digital Book System, hold pressing ON/OFF on the back of the Digital Book System. (Read its Basic Operating Guide for details.) WARNING: Resetting the Digital Book System may permanently erase information, such as notes, that you have entered in the installed digital books. -
Page 58: Replacing The Batteries
Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents © 1994 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Digital Book System is a registered trademark of Franklin. Organiz-It is a trademark of Franklin. MS-DOS and Windows are registered trademarks of Mi- crosoft Corporation. IntelliLink is a registered trademark of IntelliLink Corpora- tion. -
Page 59: Limited Warranty
Limited Warranty (U.S. only) FRANKLIN warrants to you that the DIGITAL BOOK will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for one year from purchase. In the case of such a defect in your DIGITAL BOOK, FRANKLIN will repair or replace it without charge on return, with purchase receipt, to the dealer from which you made your purchase or Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., 122 Burrs Road, Mt. -
Page 60: Index
? key 11 12 or 24 hour Clock 15 Annual events 17 Arrow keys 9 ASCII Format 53 Auto-resume feature 8 Batteries Digital Book System 57 Organiz-It 14, 54 Baud rate setting 52 Calculating expense totals 47 math equations 38 Calculator clearing calculations 38 deleting previous results 39... - Page 61 39 Schedule entries 18 To Do entries 43 Finding information World Time locations 33 Flow control setting 52 Index Franklin Personal Orga- nizer (IC-107) 51 Function keys 4 Gold key combinations in Calculator 5 in general 5 Help messages, view-...
- Page 62 viewing complete items 11 Multiple-day Schedule entries 17 Multiple-word searches 19, 29 Negative numbers 38 New appointment 21 Number of days 17 Organiz-It copying to and from personal computers 52, 53 to other Organiz-Its 51 resetting 50 P.M., typing 14, 17 Parity setting 52 Passwords assigning 49...
- Page 63 multiple words 19, 29 Schedule entries 18 Selecting topics using Gold key combina- tions 9 using menus 9 Serial port 52 Setting Clock to World Time zones 15 hour display 15 time and date 14 Shutoff time 12 Special characters 10 Special menus 10 Square of numbers 38 Square roots 38...
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- Page 65 Important Update Connecting the Cable to your Digital Book System (DBS) When connecting the IntelliLink cable, make sure the plug is oriented with the wider metal edge on top and the narrower metal edge on the bottom, as shown below. If the cable is not plugged in properly, when you attempt to transfer data, your PC will display the message Unable to connect to handheld device .
- Page 66 Important Update Getting On-line Help There are two ways to get to IntelliLink’s help informa- tion. First open the IntelliLink program and then either: Double-click the yellow question mark icon. Click the yellow help button on the toolbar. On-line help includes sections on Getting Started , How do I? , Supported Systems , and Glossary .
- Page 67 Important Update Important Information about Importing Updated Data An entry revised in your PC file (for instance, a changed phone number) will be recorded as a separate new entry when you transfer the file to the Organiz-it! card in your Digital Book System and will be listed along with the older information.
- Page 68 ( WordPerfect , Lotus Organizer , etc.). 4. Click OK . 5. Click the General tab. 6. In the From Franklin Organizer space, select the topic ( business phone , personal phone , to do , or schedule ) to be transferred.
- Page 69 Important Update 8. Click the Options tab. On this screen, the Option Category space should show the target application. 9. Click the Export button. STEP TWO (Digital Book System): 1. Press MENU 2. Select the Other menu and then press 3.
- Page 70 Important Update Copying Data from Your PC to Your Digital Book System (Import) Each Export/Import operation transfers only one Organiz-it! topic from your PC to your Digital Book System–the last topic selected. To transfer additional topics properly, you must completely close and then reopen IntelliLink between each operation.
- Page 71 4. Click OK . 5. On the General screen, select the data to be transferred. 6. In the From Franklin Organizer blank, select the topic to which the data should be transferred. 7. Click the Options tab. On this screen, make sure that Franklin Organizer appears in the Option Category space and that the correct Com Port is listed (for most users it is COM 1).
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