Using OneNote on two or more machines

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

Ben M. Schorr - MVP — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:09:41 GMT

Aloha Chris!

Good tips. There is one other option I can think of and that is locating the notebook you want to share on a flash drive and moving it back and forth. I've done that in the past and it worked fine; you just have to remember to move the drive back and forth.

-Ben-

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

Chris_Pratley — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 10:21:46 GMT

Right - I knew I forgot one! Thanks Ben.

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SharePoint, SharePoint and stuff — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:31:33 GMT

Chris Pratley, einer der OneNote-Gurus bei MS, hat sich in seinem Weblog einem Thema angenommen, was viele OneNote-User - so auch mich - immer wieder plagt: Wie kann ich mein OneNote-Notizbuch auf mehreren Computern (Desktop und TabletPC im Regelfall) nutzen und synchron halten?

Utiliser Onenote sur plusieurs machines

Edicted Blog — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:23:16 GMT

n très bon articles de Chris Pratlet qui travaille sur Onenote chez microsoft. SOn blog regorge d'infos intérressante sur ce logiciel pas comme les autres. Aujourd'hui, toutes les techniques pour partager son blocnote et l'utiliser sur plusieurs machines. Using OneNote on two or more machines One question I hear pretty often is: &quot;hey, I have two machines with OneNote - how do I keep my notes in sync?&quot; There are a lot of ways to do this. In some ways...

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

derek — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:42:19 GMT

I've been using the briefcase function on Windows to sync my whole My Notebook folder, which has worked great so far. I've never had a problem, even when OneNote is open on both machines, as long as I haven't been working for a while on them, they sync fine (since each file is then saved and goes into "read-only" mode.

My question is syncing the stuff other than the data--how do I get the settings (like the buttons on my toolbars and the note flags) to sync?

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

Mark — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 18:33:00 GMT

To sync OneNote settings, you need to synchronise the folder located at:

c:\Documents and Settings\(your login)\Application Data\Microsoft\OneNote

'Application Data' is normally hidden, so you need to set Explorer to show you 'hidden files' if you'd like to browse to it normally.

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

Benoit_Barabe (MS) — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:13:27 GMT

For using offline files, I strongly recommend using Windows XP SP2 or Windows Server 2003 SP1, in addition to making sure you have SP1 of OneNote. These have many fixes that makes the experience much smoother.

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

James R-S — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:09:50 GMT

I use Groove (www.groove.net), the newly Microsoft acquired tool, to do the folder synching. The beaut thing with Groove is that I can share sub folders with other people and any conflicts are manifested as "Conflict" tabs in OneNote.

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

Gordon Watts — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:57:13 GMT

I use the offline files, with a small trick. I have setup my portable as my "server" -- it exports everything. I then use a free IP DNS service (no-ip.com for me, but anyone will do) to register the local IP address of the computer. I then use a share name like "\\mymachine.servequake.com\notebook" to connect to. The advantage of this is when I'm at home behind a NAT I can still easily share my notebook. The OneNote SP1 features really make having multiple versions of OneNote going easy to use -- thanks!

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

John Gibson — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:01:18 GMT

I use the Groove to synch my OneNote files and it works great.

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HPClean — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 11:59:59 GMT

i'm using Syncback for synchronise Onenote Notebook betwenn 2 or 3 computers (2 Tablets - M200 and NEC versa pro and My desktop).
It's really a great piece of software very simple to use
a review in french: http://www.tabletpccorner.net/revue_72.html
Syncback:
http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/syncback-hub.html

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

Doug — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 18:09:26 GMT

I'm having a really hard time finding an affordable ASP.NET host that also offers webdav. Any suggestions?

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

Nick — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 03:28:06 GMT

I am attempting to Use WEBDAV to access a shared section but OneNote is throwing up a very generic error. When I say WebDav, I am completing a file->open->section and entering "http://www.temp.com/section.one". It looks as though it is connecting and then errors with "OneNote has encountered a problem and cannot complete this operation." Where are the log files so that I an further troubleshoot? Thanks All.

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

Chris_Pratley — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:21:57 GMT

Nick, are you able to use, say, Word and do a Save As of a document using that path?

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

Mary Branscombe — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:45:31 GMT

I really wish there was a way in OneNote itself to say that I want to copy these 5 sections from my Tablet back to the OnteNote folder for my desktop PC (which is a mapped drive on the server but as the Tablet leaves the office it can't be the OneNote folder for the Tablet too). I don't want the desktop notes on my Tablet, but I do want the Tablet notes on my desktop. I have problems with Offline Files because my desktop runs XP Home (because I do the reader QA for the Official Widnwos XP Magazine and Home XP is the domiant OS for the questions, so I need to live the pain). It would be very neat to see OneNote expose something in the the SyncManager in Longhorn to do this ;-)

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

Dennis — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 03:32:15 GMT

How about using the Microsoft's SyncToy? Wouldn't that allow to sync onenote files? Specifically to answer Mary's request, it allows to synchronize files one way only.

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

Mark Orlassino — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 21:50:27 GMT

Use Groove Virtual Office's File Sharing Workspace URL: www.groove.net. It works great and you can install Groove on 5 machines per user license. Basic Groove (Groove File Sharing Edition) with this very powerful feature costs $69. Money well spend since I've found my other uses for Groove File Sharing which includes synchronizing the OneNote My Notebook. BTW, Groove Networks is now owned by Microsoft. Ray Ozzi (of lotus notes fame) was the principle of Groove he is now Microsoft's CTO.

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

Chris_Pratley — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 07:17:10 GMT

Yes, I've started using Groove too and it works very well (automatically going through firewalls is awesome). Like all the file-based sync technologies you do have to be careful not to modify the same section on two machines before syncing, but with the firewall traversal, at least you don't have to VPN into your work machine to sync. Other than that it works really well. Of course, offline files is free...

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

ponzu — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:33:50 GMT

Thanks for the tips. I am just now looking into One Note, and unless I can keep my notes accessible via Internet, it is of little use to me. Hence the question: are there any free WebDAV services?

(And if not, which paid service(s) do you recommend?)

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

ponzu — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:11:49 GMT

I found two WebDAV services that could work for me: MSN and Intranets (my company uses it). I am able to save and open a section (.one file) to and from the web folder. However, I seem to be unable to host my entire notebook on the web: when I click File->Open-Folder... or Tools->Options->Opena and Save->Paths->My Notebook, it says "You cannot use an Internet address here. Enter a path that points to a location on your computer or on the network."

Is this consistent with your experience/mode of OneNote use? If so, what good does it do if I can store one (or multiple sections) on the web?

My goal is: whichever of my three computers I use, I should see the same notes. Regardless of which onese of them are online, or whether any Synchronization took place. Am I dreaming?

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

Chris_Pratley — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:14:06 GMT

Ponzu, you're not dreaming, but we don't do all that yet. In Onenote2003, you can host individual sections on a web site (potentially ALL your sections, but I wouldn't recommend it). All your machines can see them and edit them. On each machine though, your notebook root has to be local or on a file share. That means all your remotely hosted sections will appear as shortcuts - that is, they look like they are in your notebook but they are not available when offline. Try this out at first with just one section of notes you think you need to share and see how it goes. Not every site implements all of WebDAV, so you may find your experience is better with certain sites.

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

Kash — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:41:08 GMT

How about using the briefcase feature?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307885&sd=tech

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

ron eagle — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:43:43 GMT

I am kind of new at this but what we want to do is have two machines running the exact same program (media shout3) simultaneously. We need immediate failsafe as this program displays song words and scriptures during church service so there is no room for errors. We are planning to buy a second identical computer so that all functionality is identical and then link them through a switch device so that we share keyboard, mouse and monitor. Would the "OneNote" software do what we want? or is there another product that could do better

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

Chris_Pratley — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:44:33 GMT

Ron, sorry, OneNote is not that sort of produc. It doesn't synchronize execution of generic programs on two machines. I am not sure I can think of a program that does that although I am sure there is something out there. If you are going to have a human pressing keys to make the words advance then your approach of a switchbox that sends the same commands to each PC should be fine.

re: Using OneNote on two or more machines

Steve Bonario — Mon, 08 May 2006 05:13:21 GMT

I have set up a folder share on the recently acquired "FolderShare" (foldershare.com) for sharing OneNote 2003 notebooks between two of my machines. Finally gave me the flexibility and consistency I needed. Wondering if this is how OneNote 2007 will handle single notebook sync and collaboration...

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