The Myth

re: The Myth

Colin Walker — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:31:00 GMT

I've only ever used OneNote with a graphics tablet on my desktop and not a Tablet PC. OK some features are note availabel but it's still a very nice app.

Shame the graphics tablet is currently broken :o(

re: The Myth

William Dowell — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:45:00 GMT

Firstly, It is great to see you blogging so much! You are obviously enjoying it! I too use Word – not least because of the spell checker and then “copy”+“paste” into the appropriate box ?.

And now to the point. To be honest, OneNote does take on a far deeper role when it has ink-enabled technology behind it. Using OneNote in a lecture on a laptop is not bad (you can record audio etc) but a using a Tablet PC is far easier- and discreet.. Still, I take your point: there is a terrible misconception.

PS: Could you tell your collegues to add the word "Blog" and its variations in the default dictionary for the SP!?

re: The Myth

Michael Malinak — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:57:00 GMT

The great thing about you using word is that you post alot and they aren't all corrections to earlier posts. When you subscribe to all of blogs.msdn.com it's rough.

Back to the topic at hand. I have to say I didn't really appreciate OneNote until I started using it on my desktop rather than my tablet. I got really annoyed with alot of the drawbacks on Tablet: iffy layout/selection, find doesn't seem to work as well, drawings mixing with text, etc. Once I started using it to organize notes on my desktop it became 10 times as useful.

Demonstration Scenarios?

Ron Dunn — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 23:12:00 GMT

Do you have demonstration scenarios for OneNote which, as you suggest, minimise the importance of the "ink" demonstration? If so, you might like to publish them to help people like me demonstrate OneNote more effectively.

re: The Myth

Martin Soles — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:14:00 GMT

I'm very happy with OneNote, except for the handwriting part. See, I don't write at the exact same height. When I do the convert to text, I end up with something that looks like a ransom or threat note made from newspaper clippings. I'd be happy if I could happily write my note in ink and have the app convert that to a uniform font size.

As it is, I've given up with handwriting in there. I just flip the top on the tablet and type my notes.

re: The Myth

kip — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 04:47:00 GMT

Which is why I was floored with the decision to not bundle One Note with Office 2003. Would have been a great opportunity to get your product known, and deflate the "myth" at the same time. Instead you've got to jump through hoops to find/get One Note without a tablet, thus perpetuating the "myth". Sad.

re: The Myth

Chris Pratley — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:58:00 GMT

Ron, check out the tours and flash demos at http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX01085803
Also, there are some highly rated multimedia demos at: http://office.microsoft.com/training/courselist.aspx?CategoryID=CR010565801033&CTT=4&Origin=ES790000501033

re: The Myth

Chris Pratley — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 23:00:00 GMT

Martin, we basically made the wrong choice when we decided to try to convert ink to text in place and at the same size you wrote your ink. By the time we realized it, it was too late. But an easy workaround is to select the whole page and change the font, or copy to Word and do it - that gets rid of the 2D positioning of what you wrote as well.

re: The Myth

Chris Pratley — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 23:01:00 GMT

Kip, just for you I wrote: http://weblogs.asp.net/chris_pratley/archive/2004/01/30/65463.aspx

re: The Myth

James Cooper — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 17:27:00 GMT

So, Chris, in regards to Martin's comment, will a OneNote upgrade include more consistent text size on conversion? This too is a hard one for me when selling the capabilities of the program to faculty at the School of Law at Seattle University.

James

re: The Myth

Chris_Pratley — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:08:00 GMT

That's something we hope to address in a future version. In the meantime, you can select everything on the page and change the font size manually. Or copy/paste it all to Word and do it there. Or leave it as ink - that's what most people do.

re: The best ways to show OneNote to others

Chris_Pratley's OneNote WebLog — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:25:00 GMT

OneNote 12 - Working as a team with shared notebooks

Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:31:07 GMT

First, let me point out that Owen Braun is blogging now. He's the lead program manager on my team responsible