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Memo
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  When creating code for an application, and using memos to harness the code, there´s a need to keep track of the different memos. Until now there´s been a lot of tapping to move around between the different memos.
  Toshiyuki Masui decided to do something about it and put on the propeller hat. The application is named PalmWiki.

  The idea is to handle memos in a HyperText manner. From one memo all the dependent memos can be interconnected, with the help of HyperLinks.
  As a bonus it gives a kind of "Project" functionality, where you can easily manage the memos making up your program.
  Actually PalmWiki is a hack, so you need HackMasteror your choice of equivalent application also installed.

  Here´s a short description how to use PalmWiki.

  You begin with a memo headed with an appropriate title.
    wiki_memo_1

  Then you start whatever documentation you think is needed, to enlighten you 6 months from now, how/why this part of the program was created.
  Tightly followed by the HyperLink to that other memo, containing your precious code.
    wiki_memo_2     wiki_memo_4

  The HyperLink is suspended inside a pair of square brackets. Just remember to leave these out of your docs, besides as HyperLink.

  With a single tap on the string inside the HyperLink tags and you are thrown in to that memo. You add/modify your code to even better functionality.
  After admiring your code for a while, you feel the need to add some paragraphs to the documentation/outline. You just write the back sign on your graffiti pad. That is, straight up and down, in one movement. And you are back to the memo were you come from.

  When you want an additional memo, put the wanted title inside HyperLink tags. Tap on the string once and the memo will be created with the right title. And you will be transfered in just a jiffy, ready to code.
    wiki_memo_3     wiki_memo_5

  Be observant about one thing.
If you fancy working with MixedCase words, remember to turn off the "Jump with single tap" preference. Otherwise you will be creating a lot of memos entitled with mixed case words.
    wiki_pref_1

  With this hack installed, I imagine you can save scores of taps, at each coding session you have time for.