Use basic HTML files to navigate notes on the iPod

Jun 04, '03 08:21:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

This is a obvious hint for most readers, but I just figured out that the new iPod can read simple HTML files using the notes function. This means that you can create a simple (or a really complicated) offline website directory for viewing away from home. Try this: Create a new document in BBEdit (or other text/HTML editor), name it index.html or something, then use the most basic hypertext link code:

<a href="yourlink.html">yourlink</a>
Save the file to notes on the iPod. Now make sure you make another HTML file for it to link to, and save it in the notes folder as well (in this case, it would have to be called yourlink.html). If you make two or three links on the same page, then the scroll wheel will move a highlighted underline up and down underneath the text of each link. The most dificult part is copying and pasting text (it's really easy).

This can be very useful for expanding the iPod to include all sorts of info, for those people who wish their iPod could do anything and everything (people like me.) So far i have a link to email, news websites, movie times, school papers, and song lyrics.

Now I wish someone who knew more than I do would write an AppleScript that could "scrape" the text off my favorite websites and copy it all into these type of basic HTML files on some kind of daily/ weekly basis.

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