OneNote PowerToys

Ideas for PowerToys?

July10

Last year we ran a poll for “What OneNote PowerToy would you most like to see?” and yesterday John Guin posted that he watches the newsgroups for ideas.

It’s time for another poll, so leave a comment on this post with your ideas and I’ll generate a poll for the sidebar soon.

The results from our March 2006 poll…

Better PDF Importing: 23% (32)
Getting Things Done (GTD): 15% (21)
print to OneNote1: 9% (13)
OneNote Replication/Sync (.one to .one content merge): 6% (9)
Better integration with Outlook ToDo: 6% (9)
MindManager “Outline” to OneNote: 6% (8)
GroupWise to OneNote: 4% (6)
Lotus Notes to OneNote: 4% (6)
OneNote to WordPress: 4% (5)
Better “Printing” and “Save as” feature: 4% (5)
Ability to copy FROM OneNote as functional RTF: 4% (5)
OneNote Folder/Functionality within Outlook: 3% (4)
A taskbar utility for Tasks: 2% (3)
Configurable Text File Importer: 2% (3)
A OneNote reader: 2% (3)
a one note calendar task function similar to GoBinder’s: 2% (3)
FlexWiki OneNote Sync Capabllities: 1% (2)
More PP2One Options: 1% (1)
OneNote (e.g. tasks) to GroupWise: 1% (1)
onenote and writely/writeboard sync: 1% (1)
Ruler across the top of the page with tabs capability for use when typing: 1% (1)
“Batch” Importing: 0% (0)

Total Votes : 141

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UPDATE: Testing of inline poll:

UPDATE2:Removed Temp Poll and Posted a new one…

http://www.onenotepowertoys.com/2007/07/18/poll-what-onenote-powertoy-would-you-most-like-to-see-2/

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adminid 1 year ago 1 point
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Table of Contents

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

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adminid 1 year ago 1 point
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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...

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Pavel Calda 1 year ago 1 point
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Print individual containers and individual pages.
Better integration with Outlook: sync To-Do, Tasks

Thank you.

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Alceste 1 year ago 1 point
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- Bi-directional hyperlinks (i.e. some tool to search for pages quoting current paragaph, page, section)
- Applying templates to existing page

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Brian Rous 1 year ago 1 point
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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

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adminid 1 year ago 1 point
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Update of "OneNote 2007 + MindManager" (MindJet Labs) to work with v7.

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

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adminid 1 year ago 1 point
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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.

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matias 1 year ago 1 point
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- 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.

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Peter Lewis 1 year ago 1 point
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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.

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adminid 1 year ago 1 point
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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

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adminid 1 year ago 1 point
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Update to "Daily Journal" PowerToy
- Easier config in 2007
- Other enhancements?

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craig mackenzie 1 year ago 1 point
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Unlimited tags

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ThomasK 1 year ago 1 point
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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

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Brian Rous 1 year ago 1 point
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An add-on that lets you embed flash (*.swf) files would also be useful.

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ton 1 year ago 1 point
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I would love to be able to collaps all sub pages of a page so i only see page headings...
Ton

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Hector 1 year ago 1 point
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- 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

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David 1 year ago 1 point
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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.

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John 1 year ago 1 point
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Numbered tags -- automatically sequenced numbering 1, 2, 3, etc. with option to edit numbers and/or move numbered tags to different locations.

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Michael 1 year ago 1 point
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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.

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http://www.nationalsalesco.com

Alexander Ioffe 1 year ago 1 point
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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.

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Scott Klein 1 year ago 1 point
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A power toy to change the page tab color, we have notebook and section colors.

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ben 1 year ago 1 point
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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.

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http://vger.aa.washington.edu/triplett

Kevin 10 months ago 1 point
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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.

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Jason 10 months ago 1 point
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IntegratedAD security -- I use a shared notbook for m

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