New Extensibility in OneNote 12

re: New Extensibility in OneNote 12

dave t — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:09:31 GMT

Welcome back...*Oi Sergeant Major! Cancel the search party and recall that helicopter please!* *SAH!* (stamps to attention)

Thank goodness you're back - my poor wee finger got so sore clicking your blog link every day to see if your sensible take on all things OneNote was back yet....we now expect at least ten posts a day until Christmas to make up for it 8-)

re: New Extensibility in OneNote 12

Hermann Klinke — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:12:27 GMT

Sounds good for the start. It would be great if you could also
-create and apply flags to nodes and be able to query for these flags programmatically.
-access to the task bar: adding and removing items
-be able to subscribe to events such as when a notebook, section or page is added, modified or deleted or a flag is applied. You could build a notification system that would show you all the new sections or all the new pages that contain a certain flag. Very useful in a team environment to find out what has been changed or added since I have seen that shared notebook.

re: New Extensibility in OneNote 12

Sucky Marketing — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:35:11 GMT

This is great. You are taking it in the right direction. I am a recent OneNote convert and I am starting to really love it. Hey, how about adding a blog editor/poster? Why should I have to jump out to a buggy shareware app like Ecto or BlogJet?

Does Scoble have any thoughts on this?

re: New Extensibility in OneNote 12

owenb — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:16:03 GMT

dave_t - that's very kind, and thanks for not giving up. Don't know if I can manage ten posts a day, but we'll see :).

Hermann - great suggestions. FYI, there are some discussions about events going on right now within our team. We're extremely limited in what we can add at this point, but we might yet get something here. We all keep burning the torch for Note Flag extensibility, but it just didn't fit in this release. For "task bar", are you referring to the note flag summary? If so, you can in fact add to this using the import API (by applying flags programmatically). You can even apply to existing content by exporting, identifying the paragraph you want to flag, and re-importing.

S.M. - glad this sounds good. Re: blogs, Scoble asks us about it every time we see him :). We definitely think it's a good fit, and since a direct "publish to blog" feature didn't make it into the product for this release, this is one of the scenarios we hoped to enable via extensibility. The APIs are sufficient for it - we just haven't had a chance yet to build the powertoy. I expect we'll see more than one of them in the relatively near future :).

re: New Extensibility in OneNote 12

Jack Shainsky — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:32:15 GMT

Thanks for the great news!

The feature that I'm most missing in OneNote 2003 is the ability to synchronize the Note Flag summary with Palm or Web. I'm using OneNote for implementing the GTD system and ability to view and add my Next Actions in my phone or over the web via PowerToys will make OneNote12 The Tool for GTD.

re: New Extensibility in OneNote 12

Hermann Klinke — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:30:10 GMT

Owen Braun: For "task bar", are you referring to the note flag summary?

Yes, I meant the flag summary pane. You call it "Task Pane" in OneNote under the View menu. Your import/export suggestion is a little hackish, I would actually like to create my own list since the task pane can contain different content (e.g. page list).

I have a list of more than 30 suggestions and bugs to send to you, but they do not have anything to do with extensibility. But I have noted several API Usage examples. I'll send it all to you when I'll get around to do it. I do not have much time right now.

re: New Extensibility in OneNote 12

Owen Braun — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:29:39 GMT

Jack - that's a great scenario. Keep an eye on Will Kennedy's Outlook blog, and future posts on mine here - part of the reason we haven't gone after that scenario as much for OneNote alone is because of some increased integration between OneNote and Outlook tasks (along with some changes on the Outlook side).

Hermann - definitely send along the list when you get a chance. Or even pieces of it. Thanks for posting!

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EMRhelp.org — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:35:25 GMT

""and potentially simple DM connectors as well, although this one gets a little trickier due to the combination of OneNote's saving strategy (save all changes all the time) and Document Management systems' approach (require checkout, keep version histories).""

Having OneNote be a part of my Document Management solution would be a huge leap forward for OneNote. Allowing the Handwriting Recognition results would make it an indispensable tool for Tablets and people like me who write and type on documents with a graphics tablet.

Owen - I'd love for you to try OneNote with a Wacom Graphire4 6x8 graphics tablet. You should feel how nice it works and plus you'd see that you need a few things to get it to FLY ... like a way to toggle between INK and Type/Selection Tool (with a keyboard shortcut).

re: New Extensibility in OneNote 12

Tim — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:12:50 GMT

Please please please let us know if the team is reconsidering only syncing content in the "mobile" folder to a ppc or palm device. That limitation would cripple its capabilities. When you search for something, you count on google desktop (or a similar app) to index _the whole drive) to find what you're looking for -- if it had to be in a specific folder, you wouldn't find what you're looking for most of the time. I know images, audio and video get huge, but please give us a workaround! Like, since OneNote will OCR pdfs, make the pdf _content_ searchable, and don't sync the actual pdf. Something. Please let us know if your team thinks of alternatives... Thanks!

re: New Extensibility in OneNote 12

Lawrence — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:33:18 GMT

There's a great OneNote PowerToy that automatically creates a new Journal entry page based on the current date. However, a crippling limitation with the current API is that the new page created does not pick up the default stationery for the current section. Any chance of this being fixed in OneNote 12?

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ErikR — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:27:44 GMT

Comment: When I describe OneNote, I explain it is like a hybrid app... It has word-processing like Word, object positioning like Publisher, organization like Access (searching notes), searching prowress of a web search engine, and even audio and video capabilities to boot! OneNote is really a revolutionary application that has really changed the way I use my computer, and made my TabletPC an indespensible work tool.

Now, since OneNote has the functionality of so many other applications, is there anyway you can take on email?! OneNote is great, but Outlook fizzles in comparison, when a TabletPC user has to use Outlook. There are so many places that Outlook could do better if it could do things that OneNote could do...even in just the simple areas of Notes or Journals. Yeah, I've got the Tablet Enhancements for Outlook TEO, but its an add-in and not "fully" integrated as much as I'd like.

If the functionality of Outlook and OneNote could somehow be brought together...now that would be an incredibly usefull business tool!!!

OneNote 12 Beta 1 released!

Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 05:22:43 GMT

Beta 1 of "OneNote 12" (and "Office12") is now available for download for those people who are signed...

re: New Extensibility in OneNote 12

Geoff — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 02:37:07 GMT

When you say a little while yet for a managed wrapper, do you have a time frame in mind? Are you planning to have this available in Beta 2? I'd really like to see OneNote fully integrated to .Net and also included in the next release of VSTO.

re: New Extensibility in OneNote 12

David Joyce — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:35:11 GMT

You chaps have done a fantastic job - and the granularity of your audit trail is fantastic. One essential thing in the post SOX \ FDA regulated world I live in is audit of what is deleted by who and when.

Change control is possible via the API but I cant see how I would attribute the delete events to a user.
The best I could do would be to say XYZ item was deleted during this period..

Is there a way around this for us regulated folk?

Perhaps an event which flags a user change is all we need - or a deleted tag in the schema?

All the best,

DJ

OneNote 12 Beta 1 released!

Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:34:41 GMT

Beta 1 of "OneNote 12" (and "Office12") is now available for download for those people who are signed

re: New Extensibility in OneNote 12

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