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The Memento Wiki
This wiki is under development. As such, it will just stop in some places, generally with red links indicating pages yet to be written. You may also encounter pages that display an "UNDER DEVELOPMENT" note at the top. We recommend you wait until the message goes away before reading, as it might be erroneous.
While most aspects of Memento are common between the Mobile and Desktop editions, this wiki (generally) contains only information about the Mobile edition of Memento. Each page shows at the top of the page the version of the Mobile edition current as of the most recent change to the page. It also shows the version number of the Desktop edition current as of that date. Note the Help accessible within the app and from Help on the MementoDatabase.com Web site. Memento Help contains assistance for both the Mobile and Desktop editions.
An index to the pages of the wiki may be accessed via the following Index in the form of a table containing links to Wiki pages grouped vertically by topic and horizontally by the columns of Overviews, Specifications, Techniques, Tips, How, & Tutorials. Use the Index & wiki links throughout the wiki to navigate around among the pages of the wiki.
Where do I start with Memento?
To start at the beginning, read the Memento Overview.
Read Library Overview about Memento's primary data structure.
The Field Overview will get you started on the elements of data structure within libraries. Then, read in the Index, using Overviews as needed, and Articles, Tips, How-to, and Techniques to learn whether you need it. Use specifications to look up Memento components as needed.
Where do I go to learn how to use JavaScript to do more advanced things in Memento?
Advanced users, use the Index below to navigate in Memento.
BEGINNERS IN MEMENTO JAVASCRIPT WANTING TO LEARN IT, go => HERE <= to learn.
The wiki is continually under development, so stay tuned for more articles about Memento and its use.
See Whats New in the Memento Wiki.
Read more about this wiki.
Most recently added pages: Dynamic List field, Tags field
Most recently updated pages: Whats New in the Memento Wiki, Help:Bill's mementos, Help:Bill's tutorials, Help:Bill's examples,
Within Specifications (or Specs), begin with User Interface for descriptions of screens, cards, menus, buttons, dialogs, etc.
Field is the best specification page for starting out with fields. Field Type is one of the most popular spec pages.
Bill's mementos & tutorials
See Bill's mementos & Bill's tutorials (under development) for periodic mementos — a wiki-based blog by Bill Crews on the use of Memento Database — Bill's swan song, if you will. Mementos will be of various types:
- Articles
- Magazine-style articles on topics related to use of Memento Database
- Tips
- Articles illustrating brief but useful ways in Memento Database to accomplish something
- Tutorials
- Articles referencing & introducing tutorials on uses of Memento, detailing & sequencing processes to accomplish things in Memento Database, often regarding the design & linking of libraries or employment of JavaScript to provide advanced capabilities to Memento Database and likely others. The tutorials are stored in the wiki.
Other assistance
Unlike before the wiki, nowadays the Memento app has some Help within the app, developed by LuckyDroid. You can access it right next to where you access the wiki. The Help is oriented less for Power Users than the wiki and more for general users and beginners.
Previous, obsolete documentation (erroneous & misleading)
Previous Memento documentation has been subsumed within the wiki. It is listed here for reference, but its content has not been updated in quite a while and is not likely to be updated going forward.
Its content is now obsolete.
The Memento Database Desktop Version
Please be aware that this section is currently under development.
Core functions of Memento Database are available not only from the mobile app but from the Desktop Edition for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. The libraries created in Desktop Edition are synced via Memento Cloud and so are available on all devices you use.
Welcome Page
Once you launch Memento Database Desktop, you get access to all libraries created from your account and the ones shared with you.
The Welcome page helps you choose where to start:
- New Library- create a new Library from scratch and adjust each and every field manually.
- Recent- manage libraries already created
- Help - find answers to your questions on "Getting Started, Setting up Libraries, Working with data, Reports, Teamwork.
User Interface
All features of Memento Database Desktop version are available from the main window. It consists of these logical parts:
- Title bar - a standard windows application title bar that allows you to minimize, maximize and close the window.
- Menus - give access to main features and actions of Memento Database Desktop such as (File, Account, Help). Selecting one of your libraries supplies these menu options (File, Edit, View, Data, Account) and selecting one of the entries in your library provides additional menu options to add, sort, group, filter, entries and much more.
- Sidebar - allows you to switch between libraries created from your account. Libraries you share with others or libraries shared with you or pick a Catalog template.