GuineaPROJECT FAQ

What is GuineaPROJECT?

GuineaPROJECT is a school project manager. When you get assigned research papers or class presentations, GuineaPROJECT will help keep you organized. Using GuineaPROJECT, you can keep all of your project requirements (e.g., the ones assigned by your professors), ideas, your thesis, bibliographic data, and research findings all in one place. Even better, GuineaPROJECT is prepared to handle your team projects by keeping all of your team member's contact information in your Palm. You can even assign your team members responsibilities so you know what part of the assignment they are addressing. And, of course, you can beam your own findings, bibliographic references, and other information to your other team members so they can take advantage of them as well. Best of all, there is no limit to the number of projects GuineaPROJECT will manage! GuineaPROJECT can keep you organized for all your classes!

What features does GuineaPROJECT Offer?

GuineaPROJECT offers the following features:

Management of an unlimited number of projects;
Support for team projects. Enter team members names, link them to projects, enter their contact information, assign them responsibilities, and much more;
A bibliographic database allows you to enter all of the resources you've used to research your project. You can then link your findings directly to bibliographic authors for easy citation;
Project "to-do list" has a reminder feature which will activate your Palm's alarm system;
Beam project information, team member information, research findings, or bibliographic information to other GuineaPROJECT users;
Demo version is fully-functional (no crippling or limiting of features).

How do I install GuineaPROJECT?

Easy. Download GuineaPROJECT from OUR SOFTWARE page and simply unzip it. Install the single prc file onto your Palm, and you are ready to go.

Can you take me through a quick example of how to use GuineaPROJECT?

Sure! GuineaPROJECT is quite easy to use once you understand the fundamental organization of the program. The key to the entire program is your project. This may be a research paper on the Civil War, or whatever else you are assigned to do. You will ultimately give this project a title -- it need not be the title of your paper. It could even be "Am. History Final Paper." The title is simply used to link the other data (like the bibliographic references, research findings, and team members) together. So, for example, when you enter a bibliographic entry you will assign it to a project. This way, when you begin to type your final paper, you can go to the bibliographic screen and select the project you are working on from the drop down menu. This will then give you all of the bibliographic entries specific for that project. The same works for team members and research findings, too. It may seem a bit confusing, but let's run through a real quick example of setting up a project.

Start GuineaPROJECT and select NEW PROJECT. The first thing we need to do is give the project a title. Let's call this project "My History Project." The other fields are for you to enter data to describe the project. For example, what is the "topic" of this project? The topic would be something like "A short paper on Abraham Lincoln's career in law."

Take a look at the buttons at the bottom of the screen. They are pretty self-explanatory, but I'll mention them anyway. The REQUIREMENTS button is simply a place for you to store the requirements for the project (e.g., "15 pages" etc.). The THESIS button gives you a notepad where you can work on wording your thesis. The BRAINSTORM button gives you a notepad where you can quickly jot down your ideas. The TO DO list gives you a check off list with an option to have a reminder which will use your Palm's alarm. Keep in mind all of this information is specific to this project only. So you can have multiple TO DO lists for your different projects. This way, you stay on task!

Go ahead and tap the DONE button so we can get back to the main screen. Let's assume this is a team project. So now, let's enter a team member. Tap the TEAM DATA button on the main screen. Next, tap NEW MEMBER and you'll be at a screen entitled MEMBER INFORMATION. The top pull down button labeled "Project" is very important. This is where you assign this team member to a project (for easy lookup later). Go ahead and use the pull down menu and select "My History Project." This team member has now been assigned to "My History Project." The rest of the screen contains fields for you to enter the member's name. Go ahead and enter data for a member named John Smith with the phone number 555-555-5555. Before we leave this screen, I want to call your attention to the RESPONSIBILITIES button. This button will take you to a screen where you can enter information which would outline what John Smith's responsibilities are for the project. Go ahead and tap DONE.

You are returned to the TEAM MEMBERS page and you'll now see John Smith listed with his phone number visible. Notice the "Project" pull-down menu at the top. Right now it says "All." If you change this to "My History Project" then John Smith would still be shown. If there were other team members who were not part of the "My History Project" project, then they would disappear. Make sense? This simply gives you a quick way to view all of your team member information for a particular project. Go ahead and tap DONE.

Next, let's enter a bibliographic reference. Tap BIBLIOGRAPHY on the main screen. You will be taken to another screen which looks very similar to the team members screen. The project pull-down at the top of the screen works the same way. It simply filters the bibliographic references that are displayed so only the ones specific to the chosen project are shown. Go ahead and tap NEW ENTRY.

You'll also notice that the BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY screen looks a lot like the screen where we entered the information for John Smith. The principle remains the same. See the "Project" pull down menu at the top of the screen? Use that menu to assign this entry to "My History Project." Then enter some information about some author, source, publisher, etc. Just be sure you enter something in the author field (this is important for the next step). After you've entered some information, tap DONE and return to the main bibliography screen. Tap DONE once more to get back to the main screen.

The final thing we need to do is actually record some of our research findings. So tap the FINDINGS button. Lo and behold, we are at yet another screen that looks similar to the team member screen and the bibliography screen. Are you starting to understand the principle of how GuineaPROJECT stores your information based on the project it is assigned to?

Tap NEW FINDING and you'll be taken to the EDIT FINDINGS screen. Again, you will have the project drop-down menu at the top of the screen where you can assign the research finding to a particular project. You can then enter a short description of the finding (e.g., "Lincoln's Law School") which will be used to display the finding on the table we saw on the previous page. Next we have an "author" pull-down menu. This will bring up all of the authors from your bibliography and allow you to select one (it saves you from having to re-write the name). Finally, you enter the finding. The big magnifying glass will give you a bigger area to write the findings in.

There you go! Pretty simple and straightforward, right? Now if only GuineaPROJECT could actually write your paper for you.

Can I run Palm Hacks while using GuineaPROJECT?

You can try. But if GuineaPROJECT begins acting odd, turn your hacks off and try again (this applies to any and all software, not just the GuineaSOFT line of products).

How do I register?

Visit our REGISTRATION page for more information!

If I register, will I lose all the data I've entered already?

No.