Customer feedback results in another powertoy

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

Erik Gulbrandsen — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:10:28 GMT

John,

No comment on the powertoy, since I'm really too busy to test it. However, I agree with you completely about unfiled notes. I hate that everything gets sent there. I would like to specify where the imported stuff should go (or at least say, "by default, go to unfiled" or "by default, choose where to import").

This would be a nice change for the next version of OneNote :).

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

Mark Polino — Thu, 03 May 2007 01:17:26 GMT

I get an invalid zip file when extracting the setup.

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

Joe Polimeni (sunshineJoe on the microsoft office discussion group) — Thu, 03 May 2007 04:22:18 GMT

I have the same problem Mark has. I tried to get around the problem by downloading the zip and trying to open it with explorer - but that didn't work either.

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

Mark — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:58:38 GMT

Similar but unrelated.....

I have been using OneNote to generate documentation for our office. The screenshot ability is very handy for this. It is not handy that it automatically puts it in a new note. Is there a way to change this to adding it to the currently open note?

Folder of txt files to OneNote - Thanks John!

OneNote Extensibility & More.. — Thu, 03 May 2007 22:48:13 GMT

I just saw on John's blog that he posted another powertoy see what he has to say: One request I saw on

OneNote Powertoy that imports TXT files w/ Source Code

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re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

Mark — Fri, 04 May 2007 00:06:42 GMT

I also get errors when attempting to extract these.

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

JohnGuin — Fri, 04 May 2007 07:15:55 GMT

Sorry all - There is a bug in Office Live that zipped files created with Windows XP (believe it or not) get corrupted when uploaded.

I'll have the patched zip files installed by May 4.

Sigh...

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

Ed Learned — Wed, 16 May 2007 22:52:35 GMT

I love the concept of this, but I'm not seeing how to actually perform the import of the text files.

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

Ed Learned — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:14:24 GMT

I tried this and while I can navigate to the folder, when I click import, nothing happens and no import occurs.

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

JohnGuin — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:55:56 GMT

Ed Learned,

Are the files in TXT format? Are they ANSI or unicode based?

Thanks,

John

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

rx — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:07:20 GMT

I tried to open the zip file (Vista) and get the error messages "Windows cannot open the folder. The Compressed (zipped) Folder 'location' is invalid."

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

Kevin — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:36:45 GMT

Can anyone tell me where to get a valid archive or exe of this powertoy? I have downloaded the file using the link multiple times on multiple machines and it is an invalid file every time.

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

Robin — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:04:47 GMT

The file still shows as invalid archive...

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

s harper — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:25:29 GMT

This is really good

I can import .TXT files

BUT

oneNote does not recognise any EndOfLine/NewParagraph

in .txt

Result - all the text in the file is presented as one big paragraph : not much good becoause it needs a load of reediting

Is there a way round this?

How does oneNote indicate a newPara?

^sharp

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

s harper — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:29:51 GMT

Hold on - I get it!

You have to format the text as HTML

So oneNote understands that the HTML paragraph tag is a new paragraph.

lovely!

Shared Source Object Model Update 1

OneNote Testing — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:27:14 GMT

I wanted to share the status of our shared object model over on http://www.codeplex.com/onom So far,

Shared Source Object Model Update 1

Noticias externas — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:15:06 GMT

I wanted to share the status of our shared object model over on http://www.codeplex.com/onom So far,

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

Vista — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:11:19 GMT

Still winzip can't handle these files

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

Vista — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:11:21 GMT

Still winzip can't handle these files

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

Vista — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:58:39 GMT

Recall. Worked now... when opening the zip file directly in winzip and extract. I think NetTransport was the problem...

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

Frank — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:17:40 GMT

Trying to open zip and still comes up as corrupted using Winzip or XP's native extraction tool.

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

JohnGuin — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:41:43 GMT

Son of a gun. Can you send me an email (johnguin at hotmail ) and I can email you the ZIP file? WinISP has been "updating" their server again.

Sorry for the problem,

John

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

Wes — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:28:51 GMT

Just found this and I'm getting a message that the zip is invalid. Can you repost?

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

JohnGuin — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:44:29 GMT

Sigh - I've been fighting with this ISP to not corrupt uploaded zip files. I used Winzip this time - can you try again? Alternately, using Firefox typically works. IE also reports the (valid) file as corrupt on download.

Sorry for the problems,

John

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

Raamkumar — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:44:17 GMT

Hi,,Friends

I want to Export text to .Txt file from onenote.

if any one know kindly let me know.

A summary of the OneNote powertoys from the test team for 2007

OneNote Testing — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:40:33 GMT

I was getting ready to post this list of the addins the OneNote Test Team worked on in the year 2007

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

kenar — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:15:34 GMT

This is exactly what I needed. However the importer does not recognize linebreaks in text files. All my text in my files came as big chunks of texts. Is there a workaround?

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

John — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:18:22 GMT

Can you use the email link to send me a sample text file? I tested this pretty well and am not able to reproduce the problem.

Also, do you know what operating system was used to create the text files?

John

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

kenar — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:16:40 GMT

I sent it via contact form. Let me know if you got it.

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

Willem — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:32:29 GMT

Dear JohnGuin,

Thanks a lot for sharing your program.

It will be of great help reorganising my notes. As the user you mentioned, I have a lot of notes in text files.

I made 2 small modifications to the program:

1. It also looks in the subdirectories of the chosen directory.

around line 90 in Form1.cs:

//Willem added SearchOption.AllDirectories.

string[] fileName = Directory.GetFiles(pathToTextFiles, "*.txt", SearchOption.AllDirectories);

2. It adds a <br> automatically before each line feed and the original filename at the end in all files.

around line 120 in Form1.cs:

inputFileString = myFile.ReadToEnd();

//Willem added <br> before each linefeed.

inputFileString = inputFileString.Replace("\n" , "<br>\n") +

"Pasted from <<a href=\"" + fileName[i] + "\">" + fileName[i] + "</a>>";

If anybody is interested, then tell me how I can upload the files, executable and source (converted to Visual Studio 2008).

What I would like to do as well, is give the note the date and time of the original text file.

I know how to extract the date and time from the file, but I do not know how to change the date and time of the note. If this can be done at all.

Any suggestions?

Finally, I will use this program to upload (text) notes from Outlook 2003. I'll write an Outlook VBA macro to unload these in text files first.

When this is ready, I will let you know, because I am willing to share it as well.

With kind regards,

Willem

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

John — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:00:26 GMT

I made a similar fix for the <br> & \r\n problem and uploaded new source files last night. I can add your fix for searching subdirectories as well and post an even newer build today if you want.

The new files are converted to VS 2008 as well.

I have a separate Outlook to ON tool that might be useful as well at http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2007/02/14/export-your-outlook-notes-to-onenote.aspx.

John

Outlook to ON tool: Outlook 2007 only

Willem — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:29:58 GMT

Dear John,

I had seen your other tool but it is Outlook 2007 only. I, and many others, still have Outlook 2003.

About the fix for searching subdirectories. Ideally it would be an option on the form, because not all user will want to search subdirectories as well.

With kind regards,

Willem

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

JohnGuin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:20:26 GMT

Hi Willem,

I was thinking about this over the weekend and figured a nice feature resolves around this - the subfolders holding text files should get imported as separate sections. But then I got stuck with thinking about how they would be held in section groups...

John

Updating the OneNote Text File Importer

OneNote Testing — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:42:15 GMT

I received an email which pointed out a limitation and a design problem with the OneNote Text File Importer.

re: Customer feedback results in another powertoy

asadal — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:39:38 GMT

Dear John,

Good! This is what I needed. However the importer doesn't support UNICODE e.g. KOREAN. :(