# Creating a very basic Palm application

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**Created:** [June 27, 2002, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-a-very-basic-palm-application/116138 "2002-06-27T01:04:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-a-very-basic-palm-application/116138/1 "2002-06-27T01:04:08Z")

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I would like to create a stand-alone Palm application that lets my fellow interns and I flip through our dictation instructions, linking back and forth between the phone instructions and the list of stuff to be included in our reports.

This seems like it would be simple enough to do, even if my last serious programming was in Pascal about eight years ago. I got a program called PDA Toolbox, which seems to be great at doing everything except what I want it to do.

Any suggestions? (Preferably ones that don’t involve expensive software packages?)

Dr. J