Comment from adminid
July 10, 2007 at 3:37 am

Table of Contents

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

Comment from adminid
July 10, 2007 at 4:10 am

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...

Comment from Pavel Calda
July 10, 2007 at 4:59 am

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

Thank you.

Comment from adminid
July 10, 2007 at 5:37 am

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

Comment from adminid
July 10, 2007 at 6:10 am

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

Comment from Pavel Calda
July 10, 2007 at 6:59 am

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

Thank you.

Comment from Alceste
July 11, 2007 at 12:18 am

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

Comment from Brian Rous
July 11, 2007 at 12:25 am

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

Comment from Alceste
July 11, 2007 at 2:18 am

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

Comment from Brian Rous
July 11, 2007 at 2:25 am

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

Comment from adminid
July 11, 2007 at 3:33 am

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

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

Comment from adminid
July 11, 2007 at 5:33 am

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

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

Comment from adminid
July 11, 2007 at 8:57 am

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.

Comment from adminid
July 11, 2007 at 10:57 am

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.

Comment from matias
July 11, 2007 at 2:27 pm

- 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.

Comment from matias
July 11, 2007 at 4:27 pm

- 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.

Comment from Peter Lewis
July 12, 2007 at 2:08 am

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.

Comment from adminid
July 12, 2007 at 3:45 am

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

Comment from adminid
July 12, 2007 at 4:00 am

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

Comment from Peter Lewis
July 12, 2007 at 4:08 am

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.

Comment from adminid
July 12, 2007 at 5:45 am

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

Comment from adminid
July 12, 2007 at 6:00 am

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

Comment from craig mackenzie
July 15, 2007 at 2:37 pm

Unlimited tags

Comment from craig mackenzie
July 15, 2007 at 4:37 pm

Unlimited tags

Comment from ThomasK
July 20, 2007 at 6:35 am

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

Comment from ThomasK
July 20, 2007 at 8:35 am

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

Comment from Brian Rous
July 23, 2007 at 6:57 am

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

Comment from Brian Rous
July 23, 2007 at 8:57 am

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

Comment from ton
August 6, 2007 at 10:35 pm

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

Comment from ton
August 7, 2007 at 12:35 am

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

Comment from Hector
August 12, 2007 at 6:41 am

- 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

Comment from Hector
August 12, 2007 at 8:41 am

- 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

Comment from David
August 14, 2007 at 1:17 pm

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.

Comment from David
August 14, 2007 at 3:17 pm

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.

Comment from John
August 31, 2007 at 3:15 am

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

Comment from John
August 31, 2007 at 5:15 am

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

Comment from Michael
September 21, 2007 at 7:47 am

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.

Comment from Michael
September 21, 2007 at 9:47 am

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.

Comment from Alexander Ioffe
October 9, 2007 at 12:14 am

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.

Comment from Alexander Ioffe
October 9, 2007 at 2:14 am

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.

Comment from Scott Klein
November 8, 2007 at 12:16 am

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

Comment from Scott Klein
November 8, 2007 at 3:16 am

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

Comment from ben
November 18, 2007 at 12:55 pm

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.

Comment from ben
November 18, 2007 at 3:55 pm

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.

Comment from Kevin
January 8, 2008 at 6:16 pm

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.

Comment from Kevin
January 8, 2008 at 9:16 pm

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.

Comment from Jason
January 22, 2008 at 8:34 am

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.

Comment from Jason
January 22, 2008 at 11:34 am

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.

Comment from Matus Bonete
January 26, 2008 at 4:09 pm

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.

Comment from Matus Bonete
January 26, 2008 at 7:09 pm

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.

Comment from Peter Helstrup
February 24, 2008 at 12:13 pm

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?

Comment from Peter Helstrup
February 24, 2008 at 3:13 pm

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?

Comment from Frustrated me
February 4, 2009 at 3:30 am

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!