Palm Desktop is a personal information management (PIM) software application developed by Palm, Inc.. Dialectic integrates with Palm Desktop in a number of locations. If Palm Desktop is installed on this machine, it will appear in several menus throughout the Dialectic interface (if it is not installed, if will not appear in these menus). The points of interaction between Palm Desktop & Dialectic are:
- Lookup. You can specify Palm Desktop as the source for the lookup feature (if Palm Desktop is not launched when doing a lookup, Dialectic will open it).
- Missing called contact name lookup. If you dial a number without an associated name, Dialectic can use Palm Desktop to search for the number and add the associated contact name (if applicable) for use with alerts & the Call Log. You can enable this option to automatically search for missing names in the dialing preferences or you can search for it after the call has been added to the Call Log by using the corresponding action in the Call Log action menu (if Palm Desktop is not launched when doing this type of lookup, Dialectic will not open it).
- Caller ID lookup. When an incoming call is detected on a monitored device, Dialectic can search for the number of the incoming call to get the localized name of the associated contact using your data (if applicable). The name as entered in your Palm Desktop database will be used for alerts & the Call Log.
- Dialing from Palm Desktop. Using scripts available from the Dialectic Online Resources (http://www.jonn8.com/dialectic/resources/), you can dial directly from Palm Desktop.
- Notepad. The contents of the Dialectic Notepad can be sent to Palm Desktop as a new note (see the action menu in the lower left corner of the Dialectic Notepad window).
- While You Were Out note. The contents of your While You Were Out notes can be sent to Palm Desktop as a new note (see the action menu in the lower left corner of the Dialectic While You Were Out note window).
Interaction between Dialectic & Palm Desktop could be further enhanced using AppleScript. For instance, when an incoming call is detected, Dialectic could run a script to open the associated contact record in Palm Desktop (if available) and append a new note to the contact with the date & time of the incoming call.
