Day by Day Professional Resources

This page offers you DBD Pro resources, both in text file format and hands on audio tutorials that you can download for free and listen to while you learn how to use DBD Pro. The audio tutorials are very helpful. The audio tutorials are saved in the Microsoft WMA format so you need to listen to them either in Windows Media player 7 or higher or Winamp. The tutorials are zipped so you must extract them prior to listening to them by using a zip utility such as winzip or Ultimate Zip (freeware). I hands on illustrate how to use DBD Pro in 4 different audio tutorials. Please let me encourage you to download all 4 and listen to them even prior to having the program. They will help you learn every aspect of the program hands on. If you want, you can download the DBD Pro Documentation and read up on the program. It is accessible documentation and is in text file format and has a very easy to use navigation system. Two ++ signs are for main topics and two @@ signs are for sub-topics. So you can use ctrl+f and search for either ++ or @@ and quickly jump to the information you need.

Tutorial 1

Tutorial one lasts 33 minutes and covers many of the introductory concepts of DBD Pro but they are the most crucial skills you must know to fully use and benefit from the program. Items covered in this tutorial are:

Starting DBD and setting up your first user account
Setting introductory program options and explaining what they are used for
Shows how to use the calendar
Hands on shows how to flip through dates by day, week, month, or year
Shows how to move to a specific date on the calendar
Illustrates how to attach multiple notes to the same date
Shows how to attach notes to more than one date
Shows how to edit a note's text and how to delete a note
Shows how to find text in all your notes by using DBD Pro's text search engine
Shows how to export your notes to a web page format and open up Internet Explorer and set the notes page to be your home page

Download dbd_tut1.zip 11.7 MB

Tutorial 2

Tutorial 2 lasts 12 minutes and covers the reminder system of DBD Pro. DBD Pro comes with an advanced reminder system that permits you to set reminders in several ways. It is quite a customizable solution. Topics covered in this tutorial are:

Shows how to set a reminder for a note
Illustrates how to tab through the various reminder settings such as hour, minute, AM/PM, day, month, year, and reoccurrence pattern
Shows how to set reminders to automatically reoccur daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly
Explains how DBD Pro can support a 24 hour clock or a 12 hour clock when setting the time the reminder should display
Shows how to use DBD Pro as only a reminder system so you can create quick reminder lists
Shows how to delete a reminder or view all reminders you have set
Shows how to snooze a reminder or accept it

Download dbd_tut2.zip 4.31 MB

Tutorial 3

Tutorial 3 lasts 17 minutes and covers DBD Pro's built in address book. This tutorial will show you every feature of the address book hands on and crunch the learning curve in half! Topics covered are:

Illustrates how to add, edit, and delete contacts
Shows how to customize label descriptions such as changing the text from zip code to postal code
Explains how to open up your default email program to send the contact an email
Shows how to open a web page that is saved for your contact
Illustrates how to dial a phone number for your contact using your modem
Shows how to set the address book to use your correct comm port so your modem will dial a phone number
Shows how to search for a contact by last or first name by using the traditional ctrl+f
Shows how to export your address book to a text file or the windows clipboard
Shows you keyboard keystrokes to jump around the various items on the screen such as address, home phone, etc.

Download dbd_tut3.zip 6.04 MB

Tutorial 4

Tutorial 4 lasts 22 minutes and covers all you will need to know about setting up multiple user accounts. Learn how to add/edit/delete user accounts. It also covers all the program options DBD Pro has built into it. Finally, it hands on illustrates how to purchase and register a copy of DBD Pro. Topics covered are:

Shows how to add another user to DBD Pro
Shows how to edit and delete user accounts
Shows how to switch between user accounts
Shows how to work with account passwords
Reviews all program options
Load at windows startup, Play sounds, setting your own custom reminder and note notify sound events, date format, minimizing to the system tray, and others
Hands on illustrates how to purchase and register a copy of DBD Pro using the internet

Download dbd_tut4.zip 7.89 MB
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