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/

James used the contact form to ask about Excel and OneNote:

Pull in a Excel shreadsheet into OneNote and retain the cell formating?

It would be great if it could also mantain the formulas, but thats a plus only.

According to a comment on Brad Covelle’s Blog (link broken, details in previous post here) there was a similar powertoy that was a Contest Winner, but I can’t find it on the public internet…

Send to OneNote by Piyush Shah

• This Powertoy adds a Send to OneNote into the right-click Send To menu in Windows Explorer.
• Put a button in Excel and PowerPoint to send the selection / entire document to OneNote.
  

OneNote 2007 has a basic table layout, so a simple Copy/Paste will produce a table with most of the basic formatting. The row/column width data is lost and ON2007 doesn’t support Borders, so it won’t look quite the same.

OneNote 2007 does have Insert Files as Printout which produces a searchable image and looks much better, but the data can’t be modified.

OneNote 2007 also allows Hyperlinks to files, so that would be my suggested route.

Anyone have a better suggestion? Preferably something that works in 2003 as well (such as how to get Piyush’s PowerToy and what it’s out output looks like.)