Palm Pilot & Piano Teching

[Jeannie Grassi]

Susan,
I use my Pilot for just about anything and everything I would use a pencil
and paper for and yes, you can purchase the cutest little modem to carry
along and never stop reading Pianotech.

It has my daily, weekly, yearly schedule with room for notes on clients and
easy ability to repeat the appointment at any future date.  For easy
reference, I can refer to work I did on Mrs. Jones' piano last February with
all of the notes I wrote on that day.  In addition (through add-on software
from Pendragon Forms) I have a database that loads into Access on my main
computer for storing all of my data.

I have every phone number, address, email, and other info for everyone I
know and some important numbers of people I don't even know.

Fancy lists, memo pad, phone call notes, To-do lists, expenses. etc.

The best thing is when I get home at the end of the day, I set it in it's
little holder, push one button, and in a few minutes everything is loaded
onto my main computer.  No need to copy anything twice.

At this stage, I don't know how I would get along without it...... it's kind
of scary.

I hope this helps.  If you want more info, there are many links, but you
could start with http://www.palmpilot.3com.com/catalog/index.html.

Jeannie Grassi, RPT
jgrassi@silverlink.net
Bainbridge Island, WA





> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org
> [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
> Of Susan Kline
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 8:21 AM
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: RE: Palm Pilot & Piano Teching
>
>
> Dear Jeannie,
>
> You wrote:
> > Dick Day,
> >I have been using my PalmPilot II for a year, now and may be
> the wisest
> >purchase I've ever made.  As for a tool for the travelling
> technician, there
> >isn't anything more suitable. <snip>
> >
> >I will be demonstrating the Pilot, and other things, in my
> class on basic
> >computer use for piano technicians in Providence, so stop by
> if you're
> >curious.
> >
> >Jeannie Grassi, RPT
>
> Do you think you could give us a preview of your class, and
> tell us what
> you use the PalmPilot for? Scheduling, one assumes, but also customer
> files? Can it do email?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Susan
>
> P.S. Providence is too far away for me to drop in, sorry ...
>
>
>
> Susan Kline
> P.O. Box 1651
> Philomath, OR 97370
> skline@proaxis.com
>
> "The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly
> universe is a
> good library."
> 		-- Ashleigh Brilliant
>