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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 11:31 PM

A teaser on how OneNote storage and replication works

The other day someone internally was asking how OneNote stored its files and how often the save behaviour actually happened. You know if you were to pull the power cord on your computer what would you lose and what wouldn't you lose? Well Irina Yatsenko
Posted by descapa | 26 Comments
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:59 PM

How to create outlines with ink

Alex Simmons on the OneNote PM team wanted me to post this for him. Have you wanted to create outlines while inking in OneNote? Well with Alex's handy tips you can: Also, let me add a little to the list below too: Always start paragraphs with an ink bullet
Posted by descapa | 3 Comments
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:25 PM

Joshua Flanagan’s FlexWiki-->OneNote

It looks like Joshua has been at it again, fresh off his OneNote DevPal release he has posted his own FlexWiki to OneNote tool! You can read about it here: Migrate from FlexWiki to OneNote Here are some excerpts: Then Microsoft OneNote 2007 was released,
Posted by descapa | 1 Comments
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1:56 AM

Crabby Office Lady: Crabby sings the praises of OneNote 2007

The Crabby Office Lady just wrote up something on OneNote 2007: Crabby sings the praises of OneNote 2007 . Very cool! Thank you Annik Stahl!
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1:01 AM

Follow-up to WebDAV support with OneNote 2007

I saw this on the OneNote newsgroup and I wanted to pass it on: Subject: OneNote + WebDAV Update Given the interest in the area, I wanted to set the story straight (so far) for hosting OneNote notebooks on plain WebDAV servers. This does NOT apply to
Posted by descapa | 2 Comments
Saturday, February 17, 2007 1:54 AM

Sort Pages powertoy

Here is another powertoy that I wrote that I wanted to share with you all. What does it do? It will sort any section's pages into alphabetical order, like this: Before After Steps: You need to have OneNote 2007 + the .Net Framework 2.0 installed on your
Posted by descapa | 64 Comments
Friday, February 16, 2007 9:50 PM

Keyboard shortcut: goto first/last page in a section

I just discovered this shortcut the other day and I wanted to blog about it: Alt+Home/End – Takes you to the first/last page in a section I wasn't sure if this was documented before but I thought it was great and I wanted to pass it on. Have a great weekend
Posted by descapa | 5 Comments
Friday, February 16, 2007 5:58 PM

Add OneNote 2007 Printer as Right-click Send To option

I just saw that Rob Bushway over on the GottaBeMobile site posted these great directions: So, I went off on a goose chase to figure out how I could easily add a OneNote 2007 printer as a Send-To option, and I figured it out! Having this option will allow
Posted by descapa | 2 Comments
Thursday, February 15, 2007 11:30 PM

Send to OneNote 2007 powertoy

Finally a powertoy that I wrote! This is a small application that I blogged about before where I included the source and rest of the application, but here is the final version of this Send to OneNote from Windows Explorer. Here are the steps to get to
Posted by descapa | 43 Comments
Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:41 AM

OneNote and PowerShell

I was reading The Unknown OneNote Guy's Blog and also the OneNote PowerToys site which featured a post written by the Unknown OneNote Guy. He writes about how to use PowerShell and it's built in commands to perform a 'send to OneNote' from anywhere in
Posted by descapa | 0 Comments
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 11:25 PM

Export your Outlook notes to OneNote

What a busy day! I just heard from another Tester John Guin that he has another OneNote powertoy available. This one will export all of your Outlook Notes to OneNote with one click of the button. If you have been wanting to migrate your notes here is
Posted by descapa | 47 Comments
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:18 PM

OneNote 2007 Word Count

Here is another powertoy from the OneNote team, think of it as some love from the OneNote team on Valentine's Day. Jeff Cardon from the OneNote Test team wrote this powertoy which will count the number of words you have on a page, just by the click of
Posted by descapa | 34 Comments
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 8:21 PM

Couple OneNote 2007 Reviews

I just saw that there have been a couple reviews of OneNote 2007 that just came out. The first is from Paul Thurrott and his SuperSite for Windows. You can see the review here: Microsoft Office 2007 Review Part 3: Office 2007 Applications . Here are some
Posted by descapa | 1 Comments
Monday, February 12, 2007 9:19 PM

OneNote DevPal – Another tool to help devs working w/OneNote

I just read an email from Joshua Flanagan where he pointed me to another tool to help developers working with OneNote 2007's API. It is called OneNote DevPal . It is another tool to help people working with the API please see here: Features Display the
Posted by descapa | 1 Comments
Monday, February 12, 2007 7:44 PM

OMSpy - A OneNote developer’s tool

I know a few people have created their own app which does this but I finally wanted to release the one that Ilya Koulchin created for us on the OneNote team. Introducing..OMSpy OMSpy Overview OMSpy is a tool to get you started using the OneNote API, it
Posted by descapa | 6 Comments
Friday, February 09, 2007 12:40 AM

Another favorite shortcut: Ctrl-G

I am a keyboard fan, I detest using the mouse and I always try and key my hands @ the home keys @ all points since it is so much faster. That being said I wanted to mention on my favourite shortcut keys: Ctrl-G which brings focus to the navigation bar
Posted by descapa | 6 Comments
Thursday, February 08, 2007 11:25 PM

OneNote 2007 Screencasts - Thanks to Erik

I just got an email from Erik announcing that he had some screencasts teaching OneNote 2007. I met Erik through the beta program for Office 2007, during the beta Erik was one of our most active bug submitters and even sent me a few gigs worth of his student
Posted by descapa | 13 Comments
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 10:45 PM

PowerToy: Outlook To OneNote AddIn

John Guin a new Test Lead on our team wrote up this great tool which will take messages from Outlook and create a new OneNote note for them. Here is the description: This addin adds the capability of sending yourself email with a certain keyword in the
Posted by descapa | 14 Comments
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 10:23 PM

Creating a C/C++ Add-In which works with OneNote!

I thought I would take some time today and write up how to program a C/C++ add-in that works with OneNote 2007. Here are the directions I had and downloads below. Open Visual Studio and create a new C++ project. For my example I am creating a Win32 Console
Posted by descapa | 6 Comments
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 8:38 AM

Note taking tips from Lifehacker

I saw this the other day on Lifehacker and I wanted to pass it on: Tips For Handwritten Shorthand Geek to Live: Take great notes Take perfect notes Social note taking for students Take study-worthy lecture notes Enjoy!
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007 8:18 AM

Setup WebDAV on Windows Server 2003 to work with OneNote 2007

This is just what the developer said to get this setup: 1. Install Server 2003 2. Enable WebDAV 3. Run IIS 4. Right click on the machine/account/share name and click properties 5. Click on the MIME types button 6. New -> Extension=".one", MIME type="application/onenote"
Posted by descapa | 5 Comments
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 7:52 AM

Navigation bar fly-out, Shift-Click on a notebook

Just a quick tip for you: say you are in a notebook and you want to go to another notebook and you know exactly which section you want to visit. Instead of clicking on the notebook icon and then choosing which section you want you can just hold down the
Posted by descapa | 1 Comments
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 7:39 AM

Create a whole section from a list or table, pretty cool trick

The other day I was looking in a shared notebook and I saw this great table linking to a bunch of pages in the section and I wondered how the Dev manager wrote such a great table of contents for the section in such little time. Then I realized that he
Posted by descapa | 3 Comments
Monday, February 05, 2007 11:56 PM

Great post about WebDAV on Apache + OneNote 2007 shared notebooks

Jeffrey has a great post on setting up WebDAV on an Apache machine with OneNote 2007, please see here: OneNote 2007 With WebDAV over HTTPS I am hoping that Jeffrey can do a whole post on how to get this setup so others can see how this works.
Posted by descapa | 0 Comments
Monday, February 05, 2007 11:16 PM

OneNote IFilter – OneNote search on SharePoint/MOSS

I wanted to link again to Olya's blog where she outlines sets to get a OneNote IFilter installed on SharePoint: Enabling searching of OneNote content on SharePoint sites SharePoint sites are great for storing OneNote shared notebooks for team collaboration.
Posted by descapa | 4 Comments
Monday, February 05, 2007 8:42 AM

Blog roundup, January

Wow, another month has already passed? I can't believe we are 1/12 th done with 2007 already. In either event here are the past month's blog posts, thanks to Mike: " the OneNote blogs (here, here and here) represent a superb example of how a product development
Posted by descapa | 1 Comments
Monday, February 05, 2007 7:15 AM

OneNote Requires Tablet PC Edition 2005 with Service Pack 2, what is that?

We have an internal email distribution list where people can ask questions to the OneNote product team and over the past months there have been a few emails about this error: OneNote requires Microsoft Windows Tablet PC Edition 2005 with Service Pack
Posted by descapa | 14 Comments
 
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