gather
A Macro for Macro5 and EPOC

• What it Does
• What You Need
• What You Do
• Other Information

What it Does

If you've used my scribble macro, you might have found that you're now capturing lots of information that used to get lost, but you're having trouble getting it all organized. I find that my scribbles tend to be related to a given patient or project, and that the name of the patient or project nearly always appears (or should appear) in the scribble. To organize all these scribbles, I simply select or tap in the patient's (or project) name and invoke gather. Gather then looks for a file in the folder C:\Gatherings\ with the name of the patient or project. It will create the file if it doesn't exist. It then it copies the entire paragraph that the selection is in (the entire scribble) to the file.

I find that I also like to keep my scribbles file tidy, so after I have gathered an item the macro will mark the item with a *, to show that it has been gathered somewhere, and then move it (using the archive macro) to the file C:\Documents\archive.doc.

Before you gather a scribble, you might want to create a reminder for yourself that it needs some action taken. My new to do macro can help with that chore.

What You Need

• An EPOC device.
• Macro5 by Pascal Nicolas.
• The gather package. It contains this documentation, the source (gather.opl) and object (gather.opo) files.
• My archive macro must be installed for gather to work.
• Stuffit Expander to expand the package.

What You Do

• Place gather.opo in your macros directory.
• Assign a hotkey to it using Macro5.

Other Information

If you have comments, problems, or suggestions, please feel free to email me. I'll answer as soon as I can.

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Date created: August 29, 1999
Last modified: September 5, 1999
Copyright © 1999 Ron Risley