[NTLK] How do you use your Newton day to day?

[Wayne Stewart]

Hi,

I'm sorry to say that my two Newtons and eMates are just gathering dust.

I loved them and they were revolutionary but since the advent of the
iPhone and especially the iPad they have really fallen behind.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 5 August 2011 14:42, R A Parker <RAParker at newted.org> wrote:
> Email:
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> Within minutes of pulling my Newton out, I was reading your email in gorgeous backlit, green, plain text. The indispensable Mail V had already downloaded my NewtonTalk Messages earlier, based on a regular schedule.
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> Selecting the "stylus" option on my custom "FranklinCovey" multi-function Stylus/Pen, I highlight your questions and tap reply from the action menu within the Newton's Inbox.
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> >From here, my MessagePad becomes a Magic Pad. HWR editor enhancements are active and used extensively to help express my answers. BBedit, hilite2000, proPoint, MacinTalk, Merlin and Word Sleuth.
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> The Newton's built-in text expander helps with formatting as well, by adding extra carriage returns simply and easily. The macro expands cr> to a single carriage return and crcr becomes a double carriage return.
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> I double check the questions, verify I answered them sufficiently. I trim the included quote to its minimum.
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> Lastly, spell check with Merlin and grammar checking using MacinTalk text-to-speech.
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> After I hit send, I will then move on to my other messages including my Newton user's Twitter feed.
>
> Later tonight... review today's ToDo list.
>
> Ron A. Parker
> Yes, I use my Newton daily.
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>
>
> On Thursday, August 4, 2011 at 12:27 pm Nic Malone wrote:
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>
>> I keep hearing reports of people
>> using MessagePads on a daily
>> basis...
>
>> but never the details.
>
>> What do you use it for?
>
>> How do you use it to achieve this?
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>> If you use any 3rd party packages,
>> what are they?
>>
>> If you use any 'power user' tricks,
>> what are those (eg nifty ways of
>> extending the built-in
>> functionality for your own
>> purposes)?
>
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