Basic Features

Using Categories to Spice up your Life

Categories are used in Windows Mobile and Pocket Informant to organize your information. You can use Categories in the following ways: Colorizing your data through user dened category colors for background or text Iconizing your data through user dened category icons Filter your data on one or more categories at any one time, including displaying noncategorized items, hiding currently selected items, etc

Category List
The Category List allows you to add and delete categories, assign icons and colors to them, and set automatic lter timers for them.You can access the category editor by tapping on Tools > Categories & Auto-Filtering. The Category Editor shows all the categories and groups in one list with three boxes to the right of every category. The three boxes are for the Category Icon, the Category Timer, and the Category Color. You can edit the properties of a category by tapping on the box for that category, by the Menu on the menubar, or via tap/hold on the category.

Adding an Icon to a category

Select a category and use one of the above methods to bring up the Icon Picker. Select your icon, or use the menu to choose a different icon folder. Pocket Informant can use any bitmap icon for your category. This icon is then copied to a special place for usage. You can nd out more about customizing your icons here.

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Assigning a category color

Select a category and use one of the above methods to bring up the Color Picker. The color will be applied to either the text or background of items with that category, depending on the settings made in Options. The top bar is the currently selected color, the left is the HLS picker, and the right is a Saturation level. When you select a color, the dialog will auto-choose the color within one second after you selected a color.

Category Filter Schedule

Select a category and use one of the above methods to bring up the lter schedule dialog. Here you can enable the schedule and tell Pocket Informant what times, days, and for which views to enable it for. To understand Category Filter Schedules you must rst understand Category Filters. Every view has a category lter which either has nothing in it or some categories in it. When a lter has nothing in it, then everything in that view shows up. When a single category is in a lter then that view lters its viewable data by that category. If multiple categories are in the lter then the lter works depends on lter preferences that you can set in the category lter dialog for that view. Such preferences include if its an and or or based lter (ex.only show items that have all the categories in the lter or one of) and if the lter should exclude items in the list or include them. You assign a category to be applied during certain times and to be removed otherwise from the lter. So if you have a Work Meetings category, as an example, you can have it set to be enabled during Work Hours and at the beginning of your work hours range the category will be added to your lter. At the end of the work hour range the category will be removed from the lter list. This schedule does not enforce this lter during these times, it simply tells Pocket Informant when to apply the schedule. You can remove the lter, change the lters, apply My Views with different lters and Pocket Informant will leave things alone. Pocket Informant only applies the schedule once for the start and end of each schedule.