The Athlete's Calculator is not a full-featured athletic log, but although it's not "The Athlete's Diary Lite", it could fairly be called "The Athlete's Diary Ultralite." Using the simple steps described below, you can save workout information on your Pilot (using the Memo Pad application), and then transfer it to your desktop and merge it into a log maintained using The Athlete's Diary.
Press
the Menu button on the Pilot, and you'll see a Copy All to Memo option
in the Edit Menu. When you select this option (or its equivalent using Graffiti
shortcuts), the distance, time, and pace, along with today's date, will be transferred
to your Pilot clipboard in a format which is consistent with The Athlete's Diary,
and you will be automatically transferred to the Memo Pad application.
Within the Menu Pad application, we recommend creating one memo for all your data (rather than a separate memo for each entry); a single memo in the Pilot can contain 4000 characters which should hold quite a few workouts. This memo must contain one "header" line, in which you should write something like "Athlete's Diary info" (the actual words don't matter). Select that memo, then use the Paste function to paste in your new workout starting on the second line of the memo; additional workouts will be pasted on additional lines. Usually one workout will "wraparound" and take up more than one line; just make sure the next workout starts on a separate line.
The format of a workout is a series of fields, separated by Tabs. These fields are
Once the data are in the memo, you can modify it or add to it. In the second field, the first letter defaults to a T representing training; you can change this to I or R for Intervals or Race, as appropriate. The second letter, which represents your sport, is automatically chosen according to the pace units. It's set to R for Running if your pace is in minutes per mile or kilometer, to C for Cycling if your pace is in mph or kph, and to S for Swimming if your pace is in minutes per 100 yards or meters. Again, you can simply change this if it is wrong.
To add in a Route/Workout description, tap at the end of the line (after the Tab following the pace but before the carriage return) and enter whatever descriptive material (up to 254 characters if you want compatibility with The Athlete's Diary) you want. To add a Comment, insert a Tab and then enter your comment. You will not need to add a return, since one is already there.
Once you HotSync your Pilot, the file named MEMOPAD.DAT on your desktop computer will contain your workouts. If you have version 3.2 of The Athlete's Diary (released May 11, 1997) or later, you can use the Merge function of the software to extract your workouts from the MEMOPAD.DAT file with no further ado. All your other memos will be ignored; only the one containing information in The Athlete's Diary format will be read and extracted (but see the "catch" described below).
To merge the data into your Athlete's Diary log following a HotSync, follow these steps:
Another minor "catch." If you do use this method of moving information from Pilot to desktop and then into your log, there are some minor restrictions on the other data (other than your workouts) which can be in your Pilot memos. A line cannot start with a date (e.g., "7/13/97") followed immediately by a Tab or The Athlete's Diary will attempt to read that line when you Merge the memo.Additionally, if the first word on any line starts with "Sports", "Prefer", "Routes", "Keyword", and the first character following the first space on that line is a number, that number of lines following the line in question will be skipped when reading the file. Both of these situations should be rather unlikely, so you needn't worry about them too much.
If you have an earlier version of The Athlete's Diary, or want to transfer the workout information to some other file, you can open the file MEMOPAD.DAT with a text editor. You'll find embedded within it (along with your other memos and some non-printing characters), your workout data. If you copy and paste this information into a separate file, you'll be able to merge it into your Athlete's Diary log. If you are merging using The Athlete's Diary version 3.1 or earlier, you'll need to make sure the dates are "zero-padded" (i.e., not 5/6/97 but instead 05/06/97).
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