Franklin IC-126 User manual

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Key Guide
Function Keys
CLEAR
Clears to the main screen of a topic.
MENU
Shows the main menus.
GAMES
No function.
MORE
Shows special characters to type. At some
help messages, shows more help.
LIST
No function.
SPEC
Shows a special menu.
CARD
Exits the Organiz-It.
Other Keys
BACK
Backs up (e.g., erases typed characters).
ENTER
Makes an entry or selects a menu item.
HELP
Shows a help message.
ON/OFF
Turns the Digital Book System on or off.
SHIFT
Shifts keys to type punctuation, capitals, etc.
SPACE
Types a space.
Direction Keys
Scroll or move the cursor.
UP/DN Page up or down.
MatchMaker™Keys
? *
Stands for an unknown character in a search.
SHIFT
+
? *
Stands for a series of unknown characters
in a search.
* Hold the Gold key while pressing the other key.

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Key Guide
Gold Key Combinations*
+
A
Selects the Personal Phone Book.
+
B
Selects the Business Phone Book.
+
C
Selects the Clock.
+
D
Selects the Calendar (dates).
+
F
Selects World Time (foreign).
+
G
Selects To Do (goals).
+
M
Selects the Calculator (math).
+
N
Shows the next appointment.
+
S
Selects the Schedule.
+
X
Selects the Expenses.
+
CARD
Sends search word to another digital book.
+
ENTER
Saves an entry or changes.
+
HELP
Shows help about key combinations.
+
SHIFT
Shows special characters to type.
+
SPEC
Locks keys to type numbers (DBS-1 & -2).
+ Go to top or bottom of menu or entry.
In the Calculator, scroll up or down.
+ DN/UP Show the next/previous entry or tutorial.
In the Calculator Only
+
H
Calculates a percentage (%).
+
J
Squares a number (n2).
+
K
Calculates a square root (√n).
+
L
Calculates a reciprocal (1/n).
SHIFT
+
,-
Types a negative number (–n).

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Getting Started
Installing the Organiz-It
WARNING: Never install a digital book when the Digi-
tal Book System is on. If you do, information that you
have entered in that or any other installed digital book
may be permanently erased.
Snap the Organiz-It into a slot on the Digital Book Sys-
tem. Then turn on the Digital Book System and press
CARD. Then press the arrow keys to outline the Orga-
niz-It symbol and press ENTER to select it.
TIP: If nothing appears on screen when you turn on
the Digital Book System, adjust its screen contrast. If
still nothing appears, turn off the Digital Book System
and check its batteries.
Using Menus
To view the main menus, press MENU. To view special
menus, press SPEC. To highlight menu items, use the
direction keys. Then press BACK. To select a menu
item, highlight it and press ENTER. TIP: To view a
complete item on a menu, highlight it and press
? *
.
Selecting Topics
Press MENU and then highlight a topic on the Topics
menu. The blinking arrows at the bottom of the screen
show which arrow keys you can press. Press ENTER
to select the topic.

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Getting Started
TIP: Aquicker way to select topics is by using Gold
key combinations. For example, hold the Gold key and
press S to select the Schedule topic. For Gold key
combinations, see the Key Guide or Quick Reference
Card.
Setting the Clock
Set the Clock the first time you use the Organiz-It.
You can reset it at any time.
First, select the Clock. Then press SPEC to view the
Clock special menu and select a menu item. When
you select Set Date and Time , type a date and time
and then press ENTER at the last line.
TIP: You can also set the Clock to the time of any World
Time location. With a World Time location in view, press
SPEC
and then select Set Clock To This Time Zone .
More Tips for Beginners
Changing the Shutoff Time: The shutoff time is how
long the Digital Book System stays on if you forget to
turn it off. To change the shutoff time, select Set Shut-
off
from the Other menu. Then select a new time or
press BACK.
Help is Always at Hand: To view a tutorial explaining
the basic functions of the Organiz-It, select
Tutorial on
the Other menu. To view a help message at virtually
any screen, press HELP. To exit help, press BACK.

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Entering Data
In most topics, you can enter information by pressing
MENU and selecting
New Entry from the topic menu.
At the entry screen, type the requested information.
Use the direction keys to move the cursor.
To save your entry, press ENTER at the last line or
hold the Gold key and press ENTER at any line. To
exit without saving, hold the Gold key and press
BACK.
Finding Data
In all topics except the Clock and the Calendar, you
can find an entry by highlighting the topic menu and
typing an entry. When the entry is highlighted, press
ENTER to view it.
In the same topics, you can also find information by
searching for words. To go to the search screen in
those topics, press CLEAR. Then enter your search
word(s) or numbers. TIP: To type numbers using a
Digital Book System without separate number keys,
hold the Gold key and press SPEC to lock and unlock
the numbers.
You can type special characters at search and other
screens by pressing MORE, highlighting a character
and pressing ENTER. Or you can type them by hold-
ing the Gold key and SHIFT and pressing the appropri-
ate letter key.
Handling Data

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At search screens, you can also type a ? in place of an
unknown character or an ✽ in place of a series of un-
known characters.
After a word search, only entries with matching words
are listed under the appropriate topic menu. To view
the matches, press MENU and select an entry. Once
an entry is in view, you can view the next or previous
entry by holding the Gold key and pressing DN or UP.
Changing Data
With an entry screen in view, press SPEC and select
Change Entry . Then enter your changes. Hold the
Gold key and press ENTER to save your changes, or
press SPEC and select Save Changes . You can also
delete and undelete entries using this special menu.
Handling Data

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Using Topics
Schedule
The Schedule is an electronic date book. In it, you can
enter meetings, annual events, and notes.
Your Schedule entries must contain an event descrip-
tion. Notes in Schedule entries can contain up to 300
characters.
To schedule birthdays, anniversaries, and other annual
events, press SPEC at the Schedule Search screen.
Then select
New Annual Entry and enter an event.
You can find Schedule entries by typing them at the
Schedule menu or by entering words at the Schedule
search screen. Your search words can be partial dates
(e.g., Jan 24 ), full dates (e.g., 1/24/95 ), or generic
dates (e.g.,
tomorrow , next month ). You can also
search for words appearing in Schedule events and
notes.
The quickest way to view your next Schedule appoint-
ment is to hold the Gold key and press N at any screen
except a menu or help message. Then press BACK to
go back to the previous screen. Or press SPEC at the
Schedule search screen and select
Show Next Ap-
pointment
.
You can delete all your schedule entries before a spec-
ified date, rather than deleting them individually, by se-
lecting
Delete All Older Than from the Schedule
search screen special menu and then entering a date
and time.

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Using Topics
Calendar
The Calendar lets you view months and years. Plus
you can go from a calendar to the Schedule to view
and make Schedule entries.
To view the calendar of the current month, select the
Calendar. To view other months and years, use the di-
rection keys. Press the arrow keys to highlight dates.
Press DN or UP to view the next or previous month.
Hold the Gold key and press DN or UP to view thext or
previous year. Press CLEAR to return to the current
calendar.
On calendars, dates with Schedule entries are marked
with a dot. To view the Schedule entries, highlight a
marked date and press ENTER. Or press SPEC and
select
View Schedule . Hold the Gold key and press
DN repeatedly to view the other entries for that date.
Press BACK to go back to the calendar.
To make a new Schedule entry from a calendar, high-
light a date, press SPEC, and select New Schedule
Entry
. Then type the requested information and press
ENTER. Press BACK to go back to the calendar.
Phone Books
The Business and Personal Phone Books let you save
names, addresses, phone numbers, and notes.
Phone Book entries are listed alphabetically by last
name, so you must type a last name in each entry.

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Using Topics
Phone Book notes can contain up to 300 characters.
You can find Phone Book entries by typing them at the
appropriate topic menu or by entering words at a
Phone Book search screen. Your can search for any
item in a Phone Book entry, such as names, compa-
nies, addresses, phone numbers, and words in notes.
You can also find Phone Book entries using the Locate
menu. Select an item (e.g.,
Company ) from the Locate
menu and then select a sub-item. To view the match-
ing entries for that sub-item, press the left arrow key.
To select more items and sub-items, press BACK.
World Time
The World Time topic lists the current date and time of
locations around the world. You can even add your
own locations.
To find a World Time location, type a city or country at
the World Time menu and press ENTER or enter a lo-
cation at the World Time search screen. Then hold the
Gold key and press DN to view other matching loca-
tions, if any.
To add a new location, select
New Entry from the
World Time menu. Enter a city and/or country and the
hours and minutes relative to the international dateline.
TIP: If you select
Set Clock to this Time Zone from the
special menu above, the time and date on the Clock
changes to that of the location you last viewed.

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Using Topics
Calculator
The Calculator performs basic math. To type a nega-
tive number, hold SHIFT and press –. Press a math
key (+, –, x, or ÷) and type another number. Press EN-
TER to calculate the calculation. To repeat the previ-
ous calculation, press ENTER. To scan your
calculations, hold the Gold key and press the up or
down arrow keys.
To calculate a percentage, hold the Gold key and
press H. To square a number, hold Gold and press J.
To calculate a square root, hold Gold and press K. To
find a reciprocal, hold Gold and press L.
You can save your calculation by pressing SPEC and
selecting
Save This Result . Then type a name of up to
10 characters. Press ENTER to save the calculation.
To use a previous calculation, press SPEC at the cal-
culation when the calculator is in view and select
Use
Previous Result
. Then select a result to use and press
a math key to complete the calculation.
You can also use a previous calculation by typing its
name at the calculator line. NOTE: With Digital Book
System models that do not have separate number
keys, hold the Gold key to type the top row of letters.

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Using Topics
To Do
To Do entries can contain up to 300 characters. Simply
press ENTER to save a typed To Do entry.
Your things to do are listed alphabetically, so type a let-
ter at the start of each (e.g.,
A. , B. , C. ) to prioritize
them. Or type a number at the start (e.g.,
1. , 2. , 3. ).
To find a thing to do, select it from the To Do menu. To
change or delete a thing to do, find it, press SPEC and
select
Change Entry or Delete Entry .
Expenses
The Expenses topic keeps track of your expenses for
any time period. Expense entries are listed on the Ex-
penses menu in the order in which you enter them.
Each expense entry must include an
Item and an
Amount . To calculate total expenses, you should enter
a Category and a Payment Method, too. Then press
BACK to go back to the Expenses menu.
To calculate total expenses, select an entry from the
Expenses menu. Then press SPEC and select
Com-
pute Category Sums
or Compute Payment Method
Sums
. Press BACK to go back to the expense entry.

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Protecting Your Information
Assigning a Password
WARNING: After you assign a password, you cannot
use your Organiz-It without the password. So write
down and save your password in a separate location.
Also, do not use any special character in your pass-
word.
To assign a password, select
Name this Card from the
Other menu. Then type the requested information and
a password of up to 40 characters. The password is
case sensitive. Press ENTER to save your entries.
TIP: If you forget or lose your password, contact the
Customer Support Department at Franklin Electronic
Publishers, Inc.
Copying an Organiz-It
WARNING: When you copy from an Organiz-It digital
book to another, all the information in the receiving Or-
ganiz-It is permanently erased.
Install a second Organiz-It or Franklin Personal Orga-
nizer (IC-107) digital book into the Digital Book System.
Select
Copy Data from the Other menu. Select Copy
from Card
. Press C to copy from the organizer. Or
press another key to exit without copying.
TIP: You can check how much of the Organiz-It’s mem-
ory is in use by selecting
Memory Gauge from the Oth-
er menu.

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Copying to and from Personal Computers
You can copy information to and from an Organiz-It to
a personal computer using the serial communications
port on certain Digital Book Systems. Your computer
must be MS-DOS®-compatible and have an installed
communications program, such as Intellilink®or the
Terminal program included with Microsoft Windows®.
First, connect the communication cable from the serial
port on the Organiz-It to an open serial port on your
computer. Then set your communications program to
these settings: COM1 or COM2 (or another serial
port); 2400 baud rate; 8 data bits; 1 stop bit; parity
none; flow control Xon/Xoff.
TIP: To prepare the Terminal program
included with
Windows®, first double-click the Main icon in the Pro-
gram Manager window. Double-click the Terminal icon in
the Main window. Select Communications on the Set-
tings menu. Highlight the communications settings
above and click
OK .
To copy to or from a personal computer, select
Copy
Data
from the Other menu in the Organiz-It. Then se-
lect
Copy to PC or Copy from PC . Highlight menu
items and press
SPACE
to select copy options. (Select
IntellilinkFormat only if you have Intellilink®installed on
your PC.) If you are copying from the PC, press EN-
TER now.
Protecting Your Information

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Protecting Your Information
Next, prepare the communications software on your
PC to send or receive. (If you are using the Terminal
program in Windows, select
Send Text File or Receive
Text File
from the Transfers menu. Then enter the file
name you want to send or receive.) If you are copying
to the PC, press ENTER now. Press CLEAR when the
copying is done.
TIP: Intellilink® is a Windows®-based program that cop-
ies information between the Organiz-It and personal
computers in flexible and powerful ways. To order or
learn more about Intellilink, contact: Intellilink Corp.,
One Tara Blvd., Suite 210, Nashua, NH 03062, (603)
888-0666 (ph), [phone] (fax).
Replacing the Built-In Battery
The 3-volt, CR1220 lithium battery built into the Orga-
niz-It digital book uses little power, so you will rarely if
ever need to change it. When the battery runs low on
power, a warning appears on screen.
WARNING: Never remove the Organiz-It’s battery
when the Organiz-It is not installed in the Digital Book
System. If you do, all the information stored in your Or-
ganiz-It will be permanently erased.
To change the built-in battery, first install the Organiz-It
into the Digital Book System. Then unscrew the bat-
tery cover on the back of Organiz-It. Install a new bat-
tery, with its plus sign facing you, and replace the
battery cover.

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Resetting the Digital Book System
To reset the Digital Book System, hold
CLEAR
while
pressing
ON/OFF
. Or press the recessed reset button on
the back of the Digital Book System. (Read its Basic
Operating Guide for details.)
WARNING: Resetting the Digital Book System may
permanently erase information, such as notes, that
you have entered in the installed digital books.
NOTE: If the keyboard fails to respond or the screen
performs erratically, you can press
CLEAR
and then
press
ON/OFF
rather than resetting the Digital Book
System. If nothing happens, then reset.
Protecting and Cleaning
• Do not touch the metal contacts on the back of digital
books or the rubber contacts on the Digital Book Sys-
tem with statically charged objects. Statically charged
objects may erase information that you entered in the
digital books.
• Do not put excessive weight on digital books or the
Digital Book System or expose them to extreme or
prolonged heat, cold, or other adverse conditions.
• To clean digital books, apply isopropyl alcohol with a
cotton swab. To clean the Digital Book System,
apply a mild household cleaner with a soft cloth.
CAUTION: Spraying liquids on digital books or the
Digital Book System may damage them.
Digital Book System

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Replacing the Batteries
The DBS-1 and DBS-2 use four 3-volt, CR2032 lithium
batteries. The DBS-2D uses four 1.5-volt,AA batteries.
Have the new batteries ready before you start. Then
turn off the Digital Book System and slide off its battery
cover. Remove all the batteries and insert new batter-
ies as shown on the case. In the DBS-1 and DBS-2
the pluses should face you.
Model IC-126 Specifications
• context-sensitive help and built-in tutorials
• On-card 3-volt, CR1220 lithium battery
• On-card RAM: 128 kilobytes
• Size: 58 x 31 x 7 (2-1/4” x 1-1/4” x 1/4”)
Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, and
ISBN
© 1994 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Digital Book System is a registered trademark of Franklin.
Organiz-It is a trademark of Franklin.
MS-DOS and Windows are registered trademarks of Mi-
crosoft Corporation.
Intellilink is a registered trademark of IntelliLink Corporation.
Patents Pending.
ISBN 1-56712-109-8
Digital Book System