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ScrapBook is a note-taking application for Palm OS, featuring enhanced organizational and search capabilities that help you manage a large collection of notes. ScrapBook also supports encryption (using the DES algorithm), to let you keep selected notes private. You can organize your notes using nested folders (as many as you need, nested as deeply as you need), as well as by using standard Palm OS "categories". Also, you can assign a list of keywords to a note, and find notes by searching for one or more keywords. ScrapBook can search its database for multiple words or strings at once, searching keywords, titles, and (optionally) full message texts. This includes the ability to search encrypted notes (prompting for passwords as needed)! Search results are sorted so that the best matches are presented first. ScrapBook can exchange notes, in both directions, with the built-in Memos or Memo Pad application. ScrapBook is distributed as a .zip format compressed archive, containing ScrapBook.prc + documentation (including a complete user's manual). ScrapBook is shareware, with a 30-day trial period.

Key features of ScrapBook:

• Secure management of passwords, PINs, and other secret data
• Keeping a private daily journal or diary
• A safe notebook for personal information
• General purpose knowledge base with high speed search
• Editing long lists (given support for large notes and forward & backward searching within a note)
• You can choose which notes to encrypt (using the DES encryption algorithm), and what password to use for each encrypted note.
• Remembers passwords in use during the current session so that decryption attempts often don't need to prompt for a password (this memory is cleared as soon as you leave ScrapBook or power down the handheld).
• Import / Export notes from (or to) the built-in "Memos" or "Memo Pad" application (which provides a path for exchanging notes with the PC)
• ScrapBook's data is automatically backed up to the PC during HotSync to guard against data loss in case the handheld device is lost or damaged or loses data due to low batteries, etc.  The PC's copy of the data can be used to restore ScrapBook data onto a handheld device (the original handheld device or a replacement).
• Supports Palm OS® "categories"
• Can list notes

System Requirements:

• ScrapBook runs on Palm OS version 3.5 or higher

• Requires 120kb of RAM for the program + additional RAM for user data

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