Macro5 is a small but efficient program designed to enable you to make more effective use of your PDA. It allows you to define up to 16 hotkeys and 3 panels of 27 shortcuts for :

1) Switching directly to applications or documents (or run them if not started). When you need some info, you don't have to worry whether the application is already running or not (and then have to switch to the shell in order to find and start it). With Macro5, you just key the corresponding shortcut and you're in.

2) Pasting predefined texts (with keywords like %%date%%, %%query question_text%%).

3) Executing MACROS (all the OPL, some new commands, send keys, etc...) for shortcutting all your repetitive tasks (e.g. direct access to the battery statistics, automatic link between your agenda and your data files, help on a selected command in the OPL editor, immediate link on/off, inserting new tasks in your agenda, modifying text, restart of your programs after a backup with PsiWin, and all the small utilities that you use all the time, but are not complex enough to make an app for).

4) Switching directly to folders.

5) Remapping keys.

Since hotkeys can be any of the silkscreen keys, you can re-assign the sensitive keys to run your favorite applications and macros. For those who hate to press Ctrl+Shift+Key in order to access certain Menu functions, Macro5 provides a hotkey that will prompt for a key and send Ctrl+Shift+Key to the current application.

And last but not least, it enables you to cycle through tasks (like ctrl-tab on Windows), to display a tasklist, to run macros at startup & switch on and to manage your display at switch on (backlight and contrast).