Keeping To Do Lists
April 15, 2003
T-Mobile Sidekick Owner’s Manual
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• The month section of the date selector
is highlighted by default. Press the wheel to open
the selector pop-up, rotate the wheel until the month you want is highlighted (rotate up for months later in
the year; rotate down for months earlier), then press. Rotate the wheel until the day you want is
highlighted, then press again. Now pick the year by rotating the wheel until the year you want is
highlighted, then press.
• You can also use the Calendar date selector to select a task due date. Use the wheel to highlight the
calendar icon
, then press. The current month appears with today’s day highlighted by default:
Rotate the wheel to highlight the date you want, then press to select it. If you want to assign a date in a
future month, rotate the wheel to scroll through the days and months until you get to the date you want.
With the date highlighted, press the wheel to set this date in the Task Details screen.
When finished selecting a Task Due Date, press
Done
. You are returned to the New Task screen.
5
You can also add a note to your task. Simply highlight the
Notes
box and type. Your note can be up to 250
characters (about the size of a medium-sized paragraph).
6
To save your new task, press
Menu
then select
Done
. Your new task appears in your Browse Tasks
screen.
Edit a Task
You can edit any of your tasks by opening the task’s detail screen:
1
From the Browse Tasks screen, use the wheel to highlight the task you want to edit, then press. The Task
Details screen opens.
2
You can change any of the fields, just as if you were creating the task from scratch. Note that you can mark
the task completed by using the wheel to select the
Completed
check box. You can also mark a completed
task as incomplete by selecting the
Completed
check box again to clear the box of the check.
3
You can discard the task altogether by pressing
Menu
and selecting
Discard
.
Tip:
Your task is not deleted permanently; it’s discarded, which means it’s been moved to the Trash, where
you can retrieve it.
4
When finished with your edits, press
Menu
then
select
Done
. If you decide you don’t want to save the
edits you’ve just made to the task details, press
Menu
then select
Cancel
[
+
.
].
Mark a Task Completed
If you’ve completed a task, make sure to mark it completed. That way you can choose to hide these tasks from
the Browse Tasks screen list of tasks (read more in
Task Views
on page 151).
To mark a task as completed, do this:
1
On the Browse Tasks screen, scroll to highlight the task you want to mark completed.
2
Press
Menu
then select
Mark Completed
[
+
K
].
3
A check mark now appears in the box to the left of the task title.
