OneNote PowerToys

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Greg Hughes — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 06:37:00 GMT

Chris, this is great stuff. I like all four ideas. On the browser add-in, would be nice to have a link back to the original content source (web page or similar) as well, in case it changes. Maybe even a way to query the original source and update the notebook if it changes (or maybe that's the beauty of your third RSS idea, come to think of it). The Outlook idea is cool, and it sounds like someone's started work on a similar add-in. I would definitely use the RSS feature - it would be useful to be able to schedule how and when it updates the specified RSS feeds, for sure. And the Print-to-OneNote concept is one I would use a lot, especially when running graphical reports from say our (Non-Microsoft) help desk software that cannot otherwise be added to OneNote. Would be nice for periodic status reports. I'd like to be able to choose from an existing notebook section and page or choose to create a new one.

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Buzz Bruggeman — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:49:00 GMT

I now of one of the solutions that might work for all of what you want. Ping me when you are free and I will show you.

Buzz
buzz@activewords.com
407.539.1177

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Kiere El-Shafie — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:58:00 GMT

The Print-to-OneNote feature is probably the only feature that I REALLY feel that OneNote is missing. I want to replicate the concept of Project Folders. I have folders of handwritten notes, printed e-mails, printed web pages, etc. I want a way to print those documents to one place and mark them up using my tablet PC just like I would if they were paper. I can print them to Journal and then mark them up, but then I can't organize them and browse them like I can in OneNote. Franklin Covey's TabletPlanner has the concept right, but they are missing most of the great features of OneNote, like the hyper-linking to pasted web content, etc. If I could just print SEARCHABLE documents to the OneNote printer and then pick the folder I wanted them dumped into, I would have the perfect solution.

Right now, I am printing them to Journal, marking them up and then dragging them into a OneNote document as a hyperlink. This works OK, but it is far from complete. :-)

Good Job on an amazing program and I look forward to figuring out ways to use the SimpleImporter API in our custom .NET framework apps.

Kiere El-Shafie
Director of Technology
StyleCraft Homes

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Donovan Lange's Work-Blog — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 03:01:00 GMT

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Chris_Pratley — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:27:00 GMT

I see Joshua Allen has built an OPML import tool for OneNote using the new API. Check it out here: http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=57939c1e-9d53-4d19-b9e6-7b6e2e852934

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Jeffrey Borlik — Mon, 03 May 2004 04:43:00 GMT

I wrote a little PowerPoint importer, using the new API. Take a look at:
http://www.borlik.net/blog/archives/000097.html

re: OneNote PowerToys

Chris Pratley — Wed, 05 May 2004 01:51:00 GMT

Here's one for Palm Pilots: http://fb2.hu/qwiki/index.php?page=Palm_Desktop_To_Microsoft_Onenote

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Darren Lock — Thu, 06 May 2004 08:39:00 GMT

How about an Export API.
I use OneNote to capture meeting items & actions. I would like to be able to scan my notes via an API and call our API for generating Actions, Issues etc in our system

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Chris Pratley — Sun, 09 May 2004 01:44:00 GMT

Export and other options will come in the next full version. In the meantime, any specific details of what you imagine you would do with the "API of yoru dreams" are much appreciated.

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Stuart Radcliffe's Blog — Mon, 10 May 2004 00:13:00 GMT

I've been using OneNote for a while now and its great. In fact I'm typing this into OneNote right now. The one thing that really annoys me, though, is the lack of an insert hyperlink command. Now, this does not need to be as advanced as Word, although as common parts of the Office System it would have been nice, but even some simple functionality would have been a huge improvement over none. I decided to do something about it...

re: OneNote PowerToys

Chris Pratley — Tue, 11 May 2004 11:41:00 GMT

Omar has a PowerToy for RSS feeds into OneNote:
http://weblogs.asp.net/omars/archive/2004/05/01/124426.aspx.

He also has an add-in he is preparing for Outlook to export all sorts of things to OneNote: http://www.shahine.com/omar/PermaLink,guid,cacf1202-7550-4cd8-aed2-f2283acf419c.aspx

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Deborah — Tue, 11 May 2004 18:03:00 GMT

I just wanted to say, Chris, congratulations on your new baby, and thank you very much for doing this blog! I enjoy reading every entry.

I'm a medical student with a tabletpc, and I use OneNote for all my notes. Mostly, I love it and look forward to future versions!

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Stuart Radcliffe's Blog — Wed, 19 May 2004 21:19:00 GMT

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Tracey-Anne Reeve — Thu, 20 May 2004 13:00:00 GMT

I use onenote mostly for my writing as an author. As an other I have a massive amount of notes I make on characters, situations, ideas, and then of course rough and final drafts of chapters. Before One note I had most of these in seperate files (usually docs) which I used to have all attached into binder. Now upgrading to Office 2003, well I have lost that and gained OneNote.

For most purposes I have found onenote to be excellent for my note taking, and keeping my indivdual notes together. However, as a word processor for my chapters, it is useless so I therefore continue using Word. But there comes the problem I have with One note.

I don't always want to load onenote everytime I want to start working on a chapter, especially since if I have linked a file into a onenote document it loads Word anyway. But, Onenote places all its "linked" files under its own Onenote directory - so, it becomes a pain when you want to find your document and load it with Word.

It would be nice to be able to link files without it having to make a duplicate in its own directory. It appears that OneNote has only been created used for the collection of data, but not for any type of project of document management system that Binder used to be able to give you.

So - if there was anything I would like to see, it would be the capability of linking to any file on your computer system, without it having to make a duplicate of that file within your "OneNote" document directory.

Unless - I'm stupid and haven't found it myself yet :P

Tracey

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Tracey-Anne Reeve — Thu, 20 May 2004 21:39:00 GMT

Well In fact - I feel a little bit stupid now. One of the only things I had against OneNote was the inability to link files... and now I have figured out - in part how to finally do it.

the <file:> command accepts relivant positions. So for example, I have my "OneNote" directory within "My Documents". So if I want to naviagate to something within my "Story" Directory which is also within "My Documents" directory I would put something like:

<file:../../Story/NewNovel/Chapter1.doc>

However, there is a limit from what I can tell. You can only do this to navigate any file which is located on the same harddrive as your OneNote Document Directory. Thus in my example I have everyone on E Drive. However, if I wanted to link a document on D Drive, I can't do this.

Tracey

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Chris Pratley — Sat, 22 May 2004 18:13:00 GMT

Tracey-Anne, actually, you can link to other files. You need to add the drive letter though, such as <file://E:\Story\NewNovel\Chapter1.doc>.
If you get the SP1 preview, you just have to drag/drop the file onto your note page and you will get the option to copy it into your notes or link it.

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Tracey-Anne Reeve — Mon, 24 May 2004 11:51:00 GMT

Chris,

Yeah - I just found that out myself today in fact. Just dragged something over, which I was planning on storing under the OneNote directory, and puff - along comes this dialogue Box.

You know - if the OneNote team keep this up, I might just starting really liking Microsoft Products again :D (shock horror)

Tracey

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Eric — Sat, 29 May 2004 07:43:00 GMT

Chris,

Onenote is a free-form database. You should take a look at askSam, it has been around since 1984. Just food for thought.

askSam is a free-form database with 20 years of development and features that Onenote could learn from.

Cheers,
Eric

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Michael Hyatt — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:31:00 GMT

Does anyone know what happened to Stuart Radcliffe's Blog? I am wanting to get a copy of OneNoteInsertHyperlink program. When I click on the link above, I get a dead page.

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Stuart Radliffe — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:30:00 GMT

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Chris_Pratley — Sat, 26 Jun 2004 05:41:00 GMT

BTW, the official docs on the command line parameters and API for OneNote 2003 SP1 seem to be available now on MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_2003_ta/html/odc_landon03_ta.asp

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peterhcy — Sun, 18 Jul 2004 10:56:00 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/andrew_may/archive/2004/04/22/118321.aspx

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Alceste — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:57:00 GMT

Using OneNote for a couple of days now, I realized how similar it is in many ways to another great program, the now defunct ECCO by NetManage, who allows now users to download it for free.
One superb feature of Ecco is the much more developed use of Note Flags, which in the case of Ecco forms the basis for rich cross-categorization, searches, special views and what have you.
The OneNote team could learn a great deal from some of those functions.

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Dave — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:05:52 GMT

I agree with Eric in post http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/archive/2004/04/25/119909.aspx#144331 -- OneNote could be more useful to many people that I know if it adopted several key features used in askSam (http://www.askSam.com/).

I am looking to move away from askSam after several recent major problems with data loss caused by issues in askSam that the company is not and has not addressed. The issues date back more than a year and no patch or fix has been issued, nor has the company addressed the issue, at all.

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Chris_Pratley — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 02:42:42 GMT

Dave, it would be awesome if you could get specific about what you like in askSam that is missing from Onenote, and why exactly (what you use it for).