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Archive All Your Cell Phone Calls with SmartJournal
Posted by Adam Pash at 10:30 PM on October 23, 2007
Windows only: Freeware application SmartJournal archives your Windows Mobile cell phone's call history—including incoming, outgoing, and missed calls—with Outlook's Journal, a lesser-known feature of the popular email client. After you've installed SmartJournal (which is in German—though that shouldn't affect any operation, since its actions are all behind the scenes), the program runs alongside ActiveSync and writes the phone number, the type of call (incoming, outgoing, missed), date, duration, and name of contact (when available) to the Outlook Journal. SmartJournal is freeware, Windows only, requires a Windows Mobile phone. My Windows Mobile device is on the fritz so I was unable to test this, but if you give it a try, let us know how it worked for you in the comments.
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FizzyPopMan
Posted 10:20 PM 23/10/07
@SPK
You might want to take a look here....despite the link looking like it will only take you to the microsoft home page, it should take you to an explanation of Journal (Office 2003 version) :-)
[office.microsoft.com]
To sum it up, Journal is simply a 'time tracker' that records the amount of time you spend working on documents/e-mails/the phone. It is especially useful for those that charge by the hour, or need to keep a log of all correspondence (e.g. freelancers/attorneys etc).
FizzyPopMan
Notorious216
Posted 7:43 PM 23/10/07
Worked just fine. The next step is to apply the 8020 rule to people I don't really talk to, who are not emergency contacts.
Notorious216
-SPK
Posted 7:38 PM 23/10/07
what does Outlook Journal exactly do? Does it know my contacts and connect my calls to them?
Sorry to sound like a noob, but I've never used Journal....
-SPK
Luis Neng
Posted 5:21 PM 23/10/07
Just tested this little application and it syncronized all my call history to my Outlook.
Luis Neng
BrianT
Posted 5:13 PM 23/10/07
Just used it and I really like it, it will allow me to track business calls more easily, and it is just plain handy to have.
BrianT
xanderificus
Posted 12:55 PM 23/10/07
@damston: Try this:
[www.iampowered.com]
xanderificus
andynifong
Posted 12:05 PM 23/10/07
Great app - I search high and low for a long time for an easy way to extract my call log for billing purposes. This is the best one I've found, been using it for a year or so.
andynifong
damston
Posted 9:37 AM 23/10/07
I've waiting for years for something like that... for my PalmOS Treo. Damn!
damston
cbh
Posted 8:50 AM 23/10/07
For those of us without a Windows Mobile phone, BitPim also has the ability to extract call history. Granted, your phone has to be compatible with BitPim, but it's compatible with a pretty large number of phones. And it's also freeware, which we all love. I don't think you can extract directly into Outlook (please correct me if I'm wrong), but there are other formats available.
cbh
-SPK
Posted 7:53 PM 24/10/07
thanks fizzypopman!
-SPK
DietHacks.com
Posted 9:29 PM 26/10/07
Great find!
Now if only there was a similar way of archiving the TXT messages on my Windows Mobile phone to my desktop!
DietHacks.com
DietHacks.com
Posted 9:04 PM 26/10/07
Great find!
Now if only there was some way of archiving the TXT messages on my Windows Mobile phone to my desktop...
DietHacks.com