OneNote
Thoughts and Tips on OneNote
Chris Prately has announced the availability of OneNote Service Pack1. While this is just a preview, it seems pretty stable and offer alot of new features.
Some highlights:
Drawings can be edited by selecting parts of them
Use pen as a pointer (very nice, and quite useful when demoing)
Simple API
Capture Screen Clips
Open Folder (this was a major annoyance of mine)
Insert MS-Office Docs (as pictures though, not as objects)
Import Pictures ...
Chris Pratley is writing about adding Blogging capabilities to OneNote.
I was wondering a while ago why OneNote has no support like the rest of the Office Tools for 3 things...
An API, Add-in modules and Scripting.
I understand this is a 1.0 release product, but really, it's billed as part of Office sytem, but acts totally like a stand-alone product that has no relation
I have been using OneNote daily for about 2 months now, I Love it and Hate it at the same time.
For Organization of Notes, it's pretty close to Ideal.
For Pen Input, its pretty close to awful.
I have tried every way possible to take accurate notes (I'm dealing with formulas and graphs right now) and it not only is difficult to make things line up correclty or recognize my handwriting, but besides that-- It has several times turned a page of notes into utter jumble with no way that I have
Added Chris Pratley's weblog. He is the Program Manager for the Office Team and the weblog seems to be mostly about OneNote.
Speaking of OneNote, despite my praise in previous post it really frustrates the hell out of me. I think it's a great app, just not very well implemented in some areas. See http://weblogs.asp.net/chris_pratley/archive/2004/01/31/65647.aspx for a little explanation of the OneNote/Journal differences. This is Frightening. I like Journal alot for drawing math functions
I thought this was going to be just a standalone version of Journal and Notes combined from outlook.... Boy, was I ever wrong. I think this is going to be a constantly open, indispensible tool for me. I have this great little capture tool that I can use to snap portions of my app at runtime (or error dialogs...), add a snippet of my code, make some highlights and annotations, then spit the whole thing out as an html
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