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QUESTION: Can Memos be made with Notepad, Word, or Excel? ANSWER: Text can be typed in another program, then cut and paste into the Edit Form when creating Memos. However, you may have a large prepared list of material to use: A collection of Memos can be created in a plain text file named "MemoData.txt" and imported into AIVault. We recommend standard Windows "Unicode" text formatting (also known as Little Endian Unicode). Unicode allows a wide variety of special characters such as symbols, Chinese characters, and special characters used in other languages. The format used by AIVault is that each element of a Memo starts with a bracketed identifier at the left end of a line (no spaces first): The contents of a simple Unicode Memo text file could look like this: [Q]What is the capital of France? [A]Paris [Q]What is the capital of Spain? [A]Madrid [Q]What is the capital of Italy? [A]Rome Questions, Answers, and Notes may have more than one line, so the Unicode Memo text file could look like this: [Q]What is the capital of France? [A]Paris The river Seine flows through Paris. [Q]What is the capital of Spain? [A]Madrid The river Tagus passes near Madrid. [Q]What is the capital of Italy? [A]Rome The river Tiber flows through Rome. Other identifiers can allow other elements to be included. The rule is that [Q] marks the beginning of a new Memo. The other elements may be in any order (only Qusetions, Answers, and Notes may be more than one line). Here[IQ]identifies an image to be shown with the Memo Question. The image file must be place in the "Memo Images" sub-folder within the Memo Folder (here that is "UN Flags"). Audio files will be in a "Memo Clips" folder: [Q]What country has this flag? [A]Flag of Afghanistan: three equal vertical bands of black (hoist), red, and green, with a gold emblem centered on the red band [Atemp]Afghanistan [IQ]Flag of Afghanistan.gif Here are identifier tags you may want to use: [Q]Plain text Question [A]Plain text Answer [Atemp]Answer Template [CQ]Audio clip to play with Question [CA]Audio clip to play with Answer [IQ]Image to show with Question [IA]Image to show with Answer [Notes]Notes related to the Memo // Lines beginning with two forward slashes will be ignored The other possibile tags are not likely to be used for creating Memos for text import, but here they are: [Qrtf]Rich text Question [Artf]Rich text Answer [Hist]History of pass/fail, e.g  [Day]Date scheduled for next review* [DayB]Date Memo was created (B as in built)* [DayM]Date Memo was last modified* [DayL]Date Memo was first learned* [DayR]Date Memo was last reviewed* [Span]Days between last review and next scheduled review *Format for dates here is days since January 1, 2007. When displaying the dates, AIVault converts to to year, month, day format, e.g. "2007.07.18" Next, to import your plain text Memos, make and name a new Memo Folder to hold MemoData.txt. It will also need "Memo Images" and "Memo Clips" sub-folder, even if images and clips are not used. If AIVault's "Add New Memo Folder" tool was used, close AIVault, go to the new Memo Folder, and delete the "MemoData.aiv" file (this is a binary version). Finally, restart AIVault and see your new Memos by going to the "Browse" menu item and viewing them.
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