Preferences

Life Balance contains a single preferences form that can display one of six sets of preferences. To open the Preferences form, tap the Palm's menu button and select Preferences from the Options menu. Use the popup at the top of the Preferences form to switch from one set of preferences to another.

Startup preferences

Normally, Life Balance starts up in the last form (Outline, To Do List, Places, or Outline) that you used. However, if you prefer to always start in the Outline or the To Do List, you may select that option here. This can be especially nice if you've assigned Life Balance to your Palm's hardware To Do button.

Date Book preferences

You can also control which Date Book application Life Balance opens when you tap the Open button in the Task Details form. Important: Be sure that you select a Date Book application such as Date Book or DateBk3, and not some other application. Selecting an inappropriate application can cause your Palm device to crash.

Balance preferences

In Life Balance, the credit that you get each time you complete a task is not permanent. It gradually decreases over time so that more recent accomplishments carry more weight. You can control how quickly credit is reduced by changing the value of the credit “half life” setting which is labelled “Reduce credit for completed tasks to 50% after ___ days.” If you choose a larger number, your Actual pie chart will change more slowly than if you choose a smaller number.

Life Balance dynamically adjusts your To Do List to help you achieve the ideal balanced lifestyle you specified in the Desired pie chart. The slider labeled “Encourage me to balance my effort…” controls how strong an effect this will have on your To Do List. Dragging the slider to the right will have a stronger effect, and dragging it left will have a weaker effect. You can turn this feature off by dragging the slider all the way to the left.

Task preferences

The first two checkboxes in this set control the display of icons in Life Balance. Lead time icons are the "hourglass" icons displayed in the To Do List. Note icons are the standard Palm icons displayed throughout Life Balance.

The last slider determines what importance will be assigned to new tasks in the Outline. We strongly suggest keeping this set to "essential", since lower settings will have a cumulative effect on tasks buried several levels deep in your outline, making subtasks less important that parent tasks. However, if you find yourself frequently changing the importance of tasks to some other value, you can select that value here.

To Do List import/export preferences

These two sets of preferences provide control for how Life Balance imports and exports the Life Balance to do list to the Palm native to do list database. These preferences are described in detail in Synchronizing with the Palm To Do List.

Natara DayNotez

If you have Natara DayNotez installed, you may tell Life Balance to record completed tasks to DayNotez. This is handy for those who want to maintain diary entries for completed tasks.

Each completed task is recorded in DayNotez with the date and time that it was checked off, regardless of when the task was scheduled. If there are task notes, they are also appended to the DayNotez entry.