“Ideas for PowerToys?”

1. On July 10th, 2007 at 3:37 am adminid Says:

   Table of Contents

   Referred to in John's post and more info in the newsgroup…
   http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us...

2. On July 10th, 2007 at 4:10 am adminid Says:

   Favorites Page with Hot-Key
   – Sort of like IE favorites.
   – Icon to add current page to a favorites page in the background
   – Hot key to pull up that favorites page
   – - See the Journal powertoy for this functionality.
   – More info in newsgroup…
   http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public...

3. On July 10th, 2007 at 4:59 am Pavel Calda Says:

   Print individual containers and individual pages.
   Better integration with Outlook: sync To-Do, Tasks

   Thank you.

4. On July 10th, 2007 at 5:37 am adminid Says:

   Table of Contents

   Referred to in John’s post and more info in the newsgroup…
   http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.onenote&tid=de904d4d-8182-44e7-8ab5-8db122e1dcbf&cat=en-us-office-onenote&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1

5. On July 10th, 2007 at 6:10 am adminid Says:

   Favorites Page with Hot-Key
   – Sort of like IE favorites.
   – Icon to add current page to a favorites page in the background
   – Hot key to pull up that favorites page
   – - See the Journal powertoy for this functionality.
   – More info in newsgroup…
   http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.onenote/browse_frm/thread/9e0902b830db1f2c/c772fc1ceebcc3b0?lnk=gst&q=powertoy&rnum=18&hl=en#c772fc1ceebcc3b0

6. On July 10th, 2007 at 6:59 am Pavel Calda Says:

   Print individual containers and individual pages.
   Better integration with Outlook: sync To-Do, Tasks

   Thank you.

7. On July 11th, 2007 at 12:18 am Alceste Says:

   - Bi-directional hyperlinks (i.e. some tool to search for pages quoting current paragaph, page, section)
   - Applying templates to existing page

8. On July 11th, 2007 at 12:25 am Brian Rous Says:

   1) Automatic hyperlink generation. If you type a word or phrase that is already a title of another section automatically create a hyperlink to that section.

   2) A shortcut for creating different heading styles – could be generated with a simple dropdown menu like the bullet options. Preferably editable, but even fixed would be a useful improvement.

   Thanks,

   Brian

9. On July 11th, 2007 at 2:18 am Alceste Says:

   - Bi-directional hyperlinks (i.e. some tool to search for pages quoting current paragaph, page, section)
   - Applying templates to existing page

10. On July 11th, 2007 at 2:25 am Brian Rous Says:

    1) Automatic hyperlink generation. If you type a word or phrase that is already a title of another section automatically create a hyperlink to that section.

    2) A shortcut for creating different heading styles – could be generated with a simple dropdown menu like the bullet options. Preferably editable, but even fixed would be a useful improvement.

    Thanks,

    Brian

11. On July 11th, 2007 at 3:33 am adminid Says:

    Update of “OneNote 2007 + MindManager” (MindJet Labs) to work with v7.

    http://mindjetlabs.com/cs/files/folders/mindjetlabs/entry618.aspx

12. On July 11th, 2007 at 5:33 am adminid Says:

    Update of “OneNote 2007 + MindManager” (MindJet Labs) to work with v7.

    http://mindjetlabs.com/cs/files/folders/mindjetlabs/entry618.aspx

13. On July 11th, 2007 at 8:57 am adminid Says:

    Change/History/Version Log
    – Shows last modification date, time, and user.
    – Creates a list at the bottom of the page.

    Sync Log
    – Shows last successful sync date/time.

14. On July 11th, 2007 at 10:57 am adminid Says:

    Change/History/Version Log
    – Shows last modification date, time, and user.
    – Creates a list at the bottom of the page.

    Sync Log
    – Shows last successful sync date/time.

15. On July 11th, 2007 at 2:27 pm matias Says:

    - a “river view” like blog for all the pages in the section.
    - backup for preferences, templates and tags.
    - A page in various sections in sync or a better sistem for tag entire pages.

16. On July 11th, 2007 at 4:27 pm matias Says:

    - a “river view” like blog for all the pages in the section.
    - backup for preferences, templates and tags.
    - A page in various sections in sync or a better sistem for tag entire pages.

17. On July 12th, 2007 at 2:08 am Peter Lewis Says:

    Simultaneous Audio/Pen-Input Recording & Simultaneous Playback.

    College students, at least, need to be able to see their notes played back in front of them *while* they listen to an audio recording (which likely occurred at the time of their note-taking). Without pen-input-playback it can be almost impossible to tell why, for instance, a messy graph looks the way it does. Simultaneous Audio/Pen-Input Recording w/ Simultaneous Playback capabilities just helps polish it off.

18. On July 12th, 2007 at 3:45 am adminid Says:

    SnagIt to OneNote
    – Send from TechSmith's “SnagIt” (screen clipping) to OneNote.
    – Especially helpful for marked up images.

    SnagIt is awesome and extremely powerful. Even if it's not quite as easy to send to OneNote, the capabilities/flexibilities of SnagIt makes up for it in many more ways.

    Idea gathered from the ON Newsgroup…
    http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public... powertoy snagit&rnum;=1#0a4c1cc0140bd1d0

19. On July 12th, 2007 at 4:00 am adminid Says:

    Update to “Daily Journal” PowerToy
    – Easier config in 2007
    – Other enhancements?

20. On July 12th, 2007 at 4:08 am Peter Lewis Says:

    Simultaneous Audio/Pen-Input Recording & Simultaneous Playback.

    College students, at least, need to be able to see their notes played back in front of them *while* they listen to an audio recording (which likely occurred at the time of their note-taking). Without pen-input-playback it can be almost impossible to tell why, for instance, a messy graph looks the way it does. Simultaneous Audio/Pen-Input Recording w/ Simultaneous Playback capabilities just helps polish it off.

21. On July 12th, 2007 at 5:45 am adminid Says:

    SnagIt to OneNote
    – Send from TechSmith’s “SnagIt” (screen clipping) to OneNote.
    – Especially helpful for marked up images.

    SnagIt is awesome and extremely powerful. Even if it’s not quite as easy to send to OneNote, the capabilities/flexibilities of SnagIt makes up for it in many more ways.

    Idea gathered from the ON Newsgroup…
    http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.onenote/browse_frm/thread/5592d9367e3f438f/0a4c1cc0140bd1d0?lnk=st&q=onenote powertoy snagit&rnum=1#0a4c1cc0140bd1d0

22. On July 12th, 2007 at 6:00 am adminid Says:

    Update to “Daily Journal” PowerToy
    – Easier config in 2007
    – Other enhancements?

23. On July 15th, 2007 at 2:37 pm craig mackenzie Says:

    Unlimited tags

24. On July 15th, 2007 at 4:37 pm craig mackenzie Says:

    Unlimited tags

25. On July 20th, 2007 at 6:35 am ThomasK Says:

    Hi. What I would like to see is a tool that lets you send the document to OneNote from INSIDE the office apps (Word, excel, powerpoint). It would be just like the “Send to Onenote” tool in explorer except that you could do it from inside the app, while you are viewing the document. (Not a cliping, but a link to the document or embedding of the document in OneNote)

    See also discussion at:
    http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin/archive/2007/07/...

    ThomasK

26. On July 20th, 2007 at 8:35 am ThomasK Says:

    Hi. What I would like to see is a tool that lets you send the document to OneNote from INSIDE the office apps (Word, excel, powerpoint). It would be just like the “Send to Onenote” tool in explorer except that you could do it from inside the app, while you are viewing the document. (Not a cliping, but a link to the document or embedding of the document in OneNote)

    See also discussion at:
    http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin/archive/2007/07/09/7-9.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

    ThomasK

27. On July 23rd, 2007 at 6:57 am Brian Rous Says:

    An add-on that lets you embed flash (*.swf) files would also be useful.

28. On July 23rd, 2007 at 8:57 am Brian Rous Says:

    An add-on that lets you embed flash (*.swf) files would also be useful.

29. On August 6th, 2007 at 10:35 pm ton Says:

    I would love to be able to collaps all sub pages of a page so i only see page headings…
    Ton

30. On August 7th, 2007 at 12:35 am ton Says:

    I would love to be able to collaps all sub pages of a page so i only see page headings…
    Ton

31. On August 12th, 2007 at 6:41 am Hector Says:

    - An option to “resize to original” after pasting images.

    OneNote resizes images pasted. It would be nice if there is an option (with a shortcut) to bring it back to its original size. Dragging the rectangle size is not good because raster images end up having jagged lines. This is bad if you have a screen clipping and the font size is small albeit very readable.

    - Programmable shortcuts.

    What is reasonable for you might not be so for me. Moreover, shortcuts should be easy to remember, and this is a personal matter. Visual Studio has a great way to personalize your shortcuts.

    - Get away from ribbon

    Whatever you do, please do not include the ribbon interface on Outlook or OneNote.

    - Copy with formatting (from pdf).

    While Microsoft might have been barred from providing pdf support in Office, I think that including a special option to capture text with formatting from pdf and saving it as emf graph would be nice. This would fall under compatibility rather than direct competition, so it might not be included in the nasty monopoly thing. In fact, this would be a great addition that would keep college kids from buying Macs. My classmates that bought a Mac said that their main reason was because the could use LaTeX to generate the formulas, use dvi2pdf, and then paste them onto their presentation software. I use dvi2ps, then pstoedit ($50 for a single filter!) to obtain an emf vector graph from ps. Then I paste the formulas to either OneNote or Powerpoint.

    Hector

32. On August 12th, 2007 at 8:41 am Hector Says:

    - An option to “resize to original” after pasting images.

    OneNote resizes images pasted. It would be nice if there is an option (with a shortcut) to bring it back to its original size. Dragging the rectangle size is not good because raster images end up having jagged lines. This is bad if you have a screen clipping and the font size is small albeit very readable.

    - Programmable shortcuts.

    What is reasonable for you might not be so for me. Moreover, shortcuts should be easy to remember, and this is a personal matter. Visual Studio has a great way to personalize your shortcuts.

    - Get away from ribbon

    Whatever you do, please do not include the ribbon interface on Outlook or OneNote.

    - Copy with formatting (from pdf).

    While Microsoft might have been barred from providing pdf support in Office, I think that including a special option to capture text with formatting from pdf and saving it as emf graph would be nice. This would fall under compatibility rather than direct competition, so it might not be included in the nasty monopoly thing. In fact, this would be a great addition that would keep college kids from buying Macs. My classmates that bought a Mac said that their main reason was because the could use LaTeX to generate the formulas, use dvi2pdf, and then paste them onto their presentation software. I use dvi2ps, then pstoedit ($50 for a single filter!) to obtain an emf vector graph from ps. Then I paste the formulas to either OneNote or Powerpoint.

    Hector

33. On August 14th, 2007 at 1:17 pm David Says:

    Convert straight quotes to smart quotes. A lot of my notes eventually get printed, and they look a lot better with typographical (‘curly’) quotes. Now, I have to type ALT codes to get the proper quotes. I have yet to find an Auto-correct sequence that works well for this purpose.

34. On August 14th, 2007 at 3:17 pm David Says:

    Convert straight quotes to smart quotes. A lot of my notes eventually get printed, and they look a lot better with typographical (‘curly’) quotes. Now, I have to type ALT codes to get the proper quotes. I have yet to find an Auto-correct sequence that works well for this purpose.

35. On August 31st, 2007 at 3:15 am John Says:

    Numbered tags — automatically sequenced numbering 1, 2, 3, etc. with option to edit numbers and/or move numbered tags to different locations.

36. On August 31st, 2007 at 5:15 am John Says:

    Numbered tags — automatically sequenced numbering 1, 2, 3, etc. with option to edit numbers and/or move numbered tags to different locations.

37. On September 21st, 2007 at 7:47 am Michael Says:

    Some great ideas here,

    I have to agree with the idea about collapsing subpages. That would be cool.

    I have enjoyed the sort powertoy very much a great tool. A possible addition to that tool would be the ability to sort pages by date. I currently have to type in the date in a specific format to allow date sorting. ie: 2007-09/16. This is working great and is a huge improvement over before. It does seem that if it could be done, utilizing the existing entry date of the page as a sort option would be be more effective.

    Thanks for providing forum and for providing a venue for continuous improvement on such a great product as onenote.

38. On September 21st, 2007 at 9:47 am Michael Says:

    Some great ideas here,

    I have to agree with the idea about collapsing subpages. That would be cool.

    I have enjoyed the sort powertoy very much a great tool. A possible addition to that tool would be the ability to sort pages by date. I currently have to type in the date in a specific format to allow date sorting. ie: 2007-09/16. This is working great and is a huge improvement over before. It does seem that if it could be done, utilizing the existing entry date of the page as a sort option would be be more effective.

    Thanks for providing forum and for providing a venue for continuous improvement on such a great product as onenote.

39. On October 9th, 2007 at 12:14 am Alexander Ioffe Says:

    Drawing tools in onenote are surprisingly primitive compared to what can be found in Word and PowerPoint. Word and PowerPoint 12 drawing tools include a whole host of predefined autoshapes the most useful of them being the 'contour' tool for creating smooth curves, such functionality would be very useful in onenote. Also, Word and PowerPoint 12 allow for linestyle editing which can make regular lines into dotted lines, add arrows on either side etc…
    I think a powertoy that allows line editing (dotted lines are especially useful for geometry notes) and smooth contours in onenote would be very useful.

40. On October 9th, 2007 at 2:14 am Alexander Ioffe Says:

    Drawing tools in onenote are surprisingly primitive compared to what can be found in Word and PowerPoint. Word and PowerPoint 12 drawing tools include a whole host of predefined autoshapes the most useful of them being the ‘contour’ tool for creating smooth curves, such functionality would be very useful in onenote. Also, Word and PowerPoint 12 allow for linestyle editing which can make regular lines into dotted lines, add arrows on either side etc…
    I think a powertoy that allows line editing (dotted lines are especially useful for geometry notes) and smooth contours in onenote would be very useful.

41. On November 8th, 2007 at 12:16 am Scott Klein Says:

    A power toy to change the page tab color, we have notebook and section colors.

42. On November 8th, 2007 at 3:16 am Scott Klein Says:

    A power toy to change the page tab color, we have notebook and section colors.

43. On November 18th, 2007 at 12:55 pm ben Says:

    Latex, latex, latex. One of the reasons I don't use MS products more is lack of MS latex support in office products. Mac has great latex support in all their programs. Why not MS? I hate Mac, so I use linux instead. I use Vista and like it, but if it had more latex support I'd use it more.

44. On November 18th, 2007 at 3:55 pm ben Says:

    Latex, latex, latex. One of the reasons I don’t use MS products more is lack of MS latex support in office products. Mac has great latex support in all their programs. Why not MS? I hate Mac, so I use linux instead. I use Vista and like it, but if it had more latex support I’d use it more.

45. On January 8th, 2008 at 6:16 pm Kevin Says:

    I would like something to allow for paper-like writing. Instead of only allowing a few lines when I ink to the bottom of a page, scroll down and give me an entirely blank area. This way I can continue to utilize an entire page and scroll up to review previous notes if needed. Writing at the top of the page > writing in a cramped bottom area.

    Worse case scenario, let us scroll down to blank writing area.

46. On January 8th, 2008 at 9:16 pm Kevin Says:

    I would like something to allow for paper-like writing. Instead of only allowing a few lines when I ink to the bottom of a page, scroll down and give me an entirely blank area. This way I can continue to utilize an entire page and scroll up to review previous notes if needed. Writing at the top of the page > writing in a cramped bottom area.

    Worse case scenario, let us scroll down to blank writing area.

47. On January 22nd, 2008 at 8:34 am Jason Says:

    IntegratedAD security — I use a shared notbook for my IT Department. I would like to restrict certain tabs to certan members of my department, for instance, a tab for Network Operations, another for Helpdesk — with some general tabs accessible to all IT, and other accessible only to specific users based on AD Group memership.

48. On January 22nd, 2008 at 11:34 am Jason Says:

    IntegratedAD security — I use a shared notbook for my IT Department. I would like to restrict certain tabs to certan members of my department, for instance, a tab for Network Operations, another for Helpdesk — with some general tabs accessible to all IT, and other accessible only to specific users based on AD Group memership.

49. On January 26th, 2008 at 4:09 pm Matus Bonete Says:

    Visualizing Options.

    I would be fantastic to switch between different visualisations of my notes. Maybe going from the notebook view where notes are organized in notebooks to a kind of mindmap view, where the links between the pages are used in order to create automatically a graph or an mindmap where I can navigate in etc. Of course it should be possible to make the map manually as well (where the nodes are the pages).

    There are a lot of different views one can imagine: a chronographical view (diary type) and so on… (Tinderbox for Mac might be an inspiration as well)… go go go…

    Matus.

50. On January 26th, 2008 at 7:09 pm Matus Bonete Says:

    Visualizing Options.

    I would be fantastic to switch between different visualisations of my notes. Maybe going from the notebook view where notes are organized in notebooks to a kind of mindmap view, where the links between the pages are used in order to create automatically a graph or an mindmap where I can navigate in etc. Of course it should be possible to make the map manually as well (where the nodes are the pages).

    There are a lot of different views one can imagine: a chronographical view (diary type) and so on… (Tinderbox for Mac might be an inspiration as well)… go go go…

    Matus.

51. On February 24th, 2008 at 12:13 pm Peter Helstrup Says:

    I have to agree with Michael, a “sort pages by date” function would be nice. I actually don't understand why it isn't default in Onenote.

    Please could anyone help me?

52. On February 24th, 2008 at 3:13 pm Peter Helstrup Says:

    I have to agree with Michael, a “sort pages by date” function would be nice. I actually don’t understand why it isn’t default in Onenote.

    Please could anyone help me?

53. On February 4th, 2009 at 3:30 am Frustrated me Says:

    I'm searching for shrink font, grow font, change case and format painter in OneNote. I couldn't find them. I'd like to see these tools added if they're not there already. If they are there, could you please tell me where? Thanks!