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Newbie : minor comments

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Just acquired an Edge 530, never had anything else for a bike. (Early TomTom, then built-in, on a car.)

Love the build quality and the Garmin mount. No problems with clickability.

At the moment whilst recognising the machine's versatility I basically do 4 things:

1 Merely keep track of where I am i.e. just ride with the map.

2 Record a ride

3 Save a location

4 Set a destination e.g. (but not necessarily) a saved location

Generally, navigating the device is a bit of a task - no touch-screen or mouse direction!

Specifically, setting a location through "Browse map" is really awkward, but I think I am getting better at it.

As an aid to navigating the device, I have allocated the seven buttons to their relative position on a 12-hour clock face, so e.g. the on-off button is "10".

Starting there and working anti-clockwise, the seven keys 'look like' 10 9 8 7 5 4 2.

Then the 4 activities listed above are

1 : 10 2 then toggle 8/9

2 : 10 5 then toggle 8/9

3 : 10 8 then Nav then Browse

4 : 10 8 then Nav then Saved then Go (and 5)

Well, as I write this I can hear fellow users suggesting For Goodness Sake Just Learn The Keys but the clock face metaphor has helped me a lot as I try to get familiar with the device.

Has anybody got any good hints for the rapid traverse of what is undeniably a steep learning curve?

Thank you!