Creating and editing calls
PhoneLog allows you to enter name, number, company, subject, the category, call type, date, time, duration and a note for a call. The program allows you to easily enter a new phone call, as shown in Figure C, and will look up the contact after a couple of letters are entered in the name or company fields.

FIGURE C

You can easily enter a phone call, and connect the call with existing contact information.

PhoneLog provides two methods to look up names and numbers. One is similar to the built-in feature, providing a list of addresses to select from. This can be configured to pop up automatically when a new record is created. Another lookup method, called Quickfill, looks for contacts that match the letters entered by the user in the Name and Company fields. You can jump through the matching contacts one at a time with the scroll button. Like the built-in lookup and paste method, PhoneLog displays a "W" or "H" next to the number to indicate whether the number is for work of home.

PhoneLog does the built-in Phone Lookup feature one better by copying all phone numbers for the contact (not just the one shown in the address list) and initially displays the primary number for the contact.

PhoneLog also stores a link directly to the contact. If the entered contact info cannot be found in the Address Book, PhoneLog will display a "+" marker that indicates that the contact info is new. With a single tap of this marker, PhoneLog will automatically add a new entry to the Address Book. If you want to edit the Address Book's info for a contact, clicking on an arrow will bring you directly to the contact in the Address Book. This tight integration with the Address Book is a time saver. Each call is given a type. PhoneLog's call types are "Conversation," "Left Message," and "Received Voicemail," by default, but you can add or edit them as you wish (up to 20)!

Main view
PhoneLog provides versatile outline and list views for calls, including outlines grouped by type, contact, company, or subject or as a chronological list. The chronological List view shows the contact name and either the subject or phone number, depending upon the preference setting. You can see this in Figure D.

FIGURE D

You can view a list of calls by date.

Preferences also control whether names are displayed with "LastName, FirstName" or "FirstName LastName." Once a call is completed, you should check it off. Like in the To Do List, you can choose to display or hide the checked calls (new in version 2.04). You can delete old calls by specifying a date. The Find feature helps you find specific calls.

To top things off, if you sets the Address Book hard button (second from left at the bottom of the Palm) to launch PhoneLog instead of the Address Book, (set in the Buttons Preferences), a second push of this button will launch the Address Book. The way that PhoneLog allows itself and the Address Book to effectively share this button makes it very easy to access PhoneLog without making it difficult to get at the Address Book.