HTML Importer

Last year Jamie Hill of StratusNine.com created an HTML Importer for OneNote. (found via http://del.icio.us/tag/onenote)

It allows you to save a web page (“complete” or as single page) and import it into OneNote 2007.

Also of interest is another version, just called “The Importer” which is for text and html files. More specifically, part of his PINE email export (via perl script) to OneNote (via The Importer). Check out all his OneNote posts.

Posted: December 3rd, 2007 under Taskbar & Utilities - 4 Comments.

Double Hyperlink

From http://tabletpcstudent.wordpress.com/2007/11/17/powertoy-double-hyperlink/

Double Hyperlink – What is it? It creates a new page, with the user specified title, pastes a hyperlink to the new page in the current page, and navigates to the new page where it puts the hyperlink from the current page .

Note: As of 12/3/07 the download link is “Disabled :- Fixing Bugs”

Posted: December 3rd, 2007 under Taskbar & Utilities - 3 Comments.

TreeView Beta

Anirudh has released a beta version of his TreeView PowerToy, which launches a navigation window for OneNote. Far more condensed and quicker to expand/condense than the built-in navigation options.

The list of features keeps evolving and this is just the first beta release, so please provide him comments and feedback on his blog.

Posted: November 4th, 2007 under PowerToys - 5 Comments.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM2OneNote

From CodePlex Project site…

Description

The Microsoft Dynamics Snap for Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 integrates the Microsoft Dynamics CRM system with the note-taking capabilities of OneNote 2007. In today’s business world, collecting customer information is essential to building customer relationships and a sales pipeline. CRM2OneNote provides sales representatives with a streamlined process for capturing, storing, and finding relevant customer notes which can contain images, audio recordings, embedded files, and other rich information.

The WhitePaper has screenshots and a better description.

Found via the Groove Advisor blog.

Posted: November 2nd, 2007 under PowerToys - 3 Comments.

Waiting for… TreeView + Title Change + Move and more

Anirudh Saraf, a college student, has started a blog… Tablet PC – A Student’s Perspective

So far it only has 4 posts. One “Hello World”, two about OneNote usage, and one about starting to develop a OneNote PowerToy…

 

So after a week of learning XML and C# I finally dived into playing with the OneNote API

Here is the result of my first experiment with the One Note API.

What the program basically does is convert the OneNote Notebook structure into a TreeView structure. Not too useful at this stage, but its a start. A few of the features I hope to implement before releasing a powertoy based on this.

1. Add SubPages as a seperate Node
2. Link to Notes from Tree View
3. Ability to change the page title
4. A page preview pane
5. Ability to move pages pages.

Please do leave feature requests/ideas in the comments below. Also if anyone is interested in developing/collaborating in the development of OneNote Powertoys do drop me an email.

Posted: October 19th, 2007 under Researching - 9 Comments.

OneNote Printout Manager

via Daniel Escapa…

OneNote Printout Manager

Yet another powertoy written by Jeff Cardon (*applause*) that will help you when you are printing a lot of documents to OneNote. I will just let his user guide speak for itself:

Installation:

• Download from here: ONPrintManager.zip
• Run Setup.exe and follow the prompts.
• Run OneNote and click on the following button:

UI and options:

Preview:

Changes made to any of the settings in the dialog are displayed in the preview pane. The preview pane will display up to 3 images per column. An elipses (…) is used to indicate that additional images may appear beneath the current set of images.

Printout size:

The Printout size slider control can be used to adjust the size of the printouts. The size range can be between 1% and 200%. 100% is the default size.

Printouts per page:

Use the Printouts per page option to specify that you want OneNote Printout Manager to separate a given number of printouts onto separate pages. The printouts per page can range from 1 to 99. When this control is checked, OneNote Printout Manager will create a new subpage after it reaches the image representing the value specified and continue execution. Each subpage will have the title of the original page with a sequential number appended to it. If the original page is untitled, OneNote Printout Manager will attempt to obtain the text inside the first printout on the page and use for the title. See Additional information below.

Set printouts as background:

Use the Set printouts to background option to set the printouts to be background images instead of floating images. When a printout is set to be a background image the printout is anchored to the page and notes can be added on top of the image without it moving or becoming selected.

Columns per page:

Use the Columns per page setting to determine the number of columns per page to organize your printouts in. The printouts are laid out in order from left to right. e.g. printout image #1 will appear in column 1, printout image #2 will appear in column 2, etc. Once the number of columns is reached, OneNote Printout Manager will repeat the process in the next row. e.g. printout image #3 will appear in column 1, printout image #4 will appear in column 2, etc.

Spacing between printouts:

Use the Spacing between printouts setting to specify the amount of space you want OneNote Printout Manager to put between each printout. The amount of space indicated will be used for both horizontal and vertical spacing. The value is expressed in points, where there are 72 points per inch.

Margins:

Use the Margins settings to specify the top and left margins. These values are expressed in points, where there are 72 points per inch.

Save current settings as default:

Use Save current settings as default to remember any changes you make for the next time you run OneNote Printout manager

Additional information.

Undo is not fully supported with this utility. You’ll find that making simple sizing, margin, spacing, columns or background changes to the printouts on a single page can be undone. However, organizing printouts onto separate pages cannot be fully undone. Therefore, a mechanism to restore your page to the last state before running the utility is provided using the Restore utility. This utility (restore.exe) is located in the install folder where you initially installed OneNote Printout Manager. You can simply run Restore.exe to restore the original page back to the section you are currently viewing.

This is great for those people who have been asking for this on the newsgroups as well as the many students who use OneNote. Hope you enjoy and once again thank you to Jeff Cardon who developed & tested this, nice work Jeff!

Posted: September 19th, 2007 under MS OneNote Team, Print Driver - 12 Comments.

Make Subpage PowerToy

Another powertoy from Jeff Cardon, one of the OneNote Testers…

Make Subpage icon…

• 
• Works for multiple pages as well

http://johnguin.members.winisp.net/Shared%20Documents/makesubpage_setup.zip

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via John and Dan

Posted: August 23rd, 2007 under MS OneNote Team, Taskbar & Utilities - 8 Comments.

Merge Pages PowerToy

A powertoy from Jeff Cardon, one of the OneNote Testers…

Takes selected pages in OneNote and at the click of a button it will merge all of the pages together into one page.

A screenshot of what it looks like in the toolbar:

Direct download link mergepages_setup.zip

Some notes: there is a popup dialog which explains Undo is not supported.  You can disable this dialog if you want, and I recommend disabling it as soon as you get comfortable with the implications that Undo is not supported.  There is another warning if you merge more than 10 pages at a time.  Again, you can disable this warning.

 

The reason I suggest disabling those warning are this is another managed code addin, so we cannot control focus of the confirmation dialogs.  If you click the button and it looks like nothing happened, look “behind” OneNote to see the dialog.  It’s easier just to live without the dialogs when you merge pages.

 

When installing, as usual, exit OneNote, run setup.exe and choose to install for all users.

Posted: August 23rd, 2007 under MS OneNote Team, Taskbar & Utilities - 5 Comments.

OneNote 2007 Integration with MindManager Pro 7

The MindJet “OneNote 2007 + MindManager” PowerToy has been updated for MM7 and can be obtained from MindJet Labs…  

OneNote 2007 Integration with MindManager Pro 7 (Registration required for download)

From MindJet…. 

1.0.7: OneNote 2007 Integration with MindManager Pro 7: Send To MindManager, OneNote Hyperlinks in MindManager, and Notebook Hierarchy Mapping

Version 1.0.7 (8/3/2007)

This demonstrates a synergistic relationship between two applications, Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 and Mindjet MindManager Pro 7:

• From MindManager, you can easily map out the Notebooks, Section Groups, Sections, Pages, and Subpages, including hyperlinks:
  Select Add-Ins Tab…OneNote 2007 Notebooks.
• From MindManager, you can send the current map to OneNote as an image that you can sketch on and annotate:
  Select MindManager …Export…Microsoft Office OneNote 2007.
• From OneNote, you can send a page to MindManager as a hyperlinked topic:
  Press the Send to MindManager button on the Standard toolbar in OneNote.

The hierarchy of OneNote 2007 notebooks, sections, and pages in MindManager

A MindManager map in OneNote that you can sketch on.

Posted: August 7th, 2007 under Mind Manager - 8 Comments.

SnagIt Output for OneNote 2007!

SnagIt Output for OneNote 2007 has entered my Top 3 favorite PowerToys.

From Kathy’s blog…

The new accessory lets you send almost any snag to OneNote directly from the SnagIt preview. By default, the snags go to your cursor location. But you can easily change the output location to any page in any section in any open notebook or to any page in your unfiled notes. If you want, you can even have SnagIt create a page in a section and put the output there. (New pages get the title “Snag” followed by a sequence number.) You can change the default from your cursor location to any of the other locations as well. (What’s a Snag? That’s a screen shot you take with SnagIt!)

I have been testing it out and have found a lot of great uses for it. For example:

• I hate that there has been no easy way to get long/wide pages to my notes. Now I can set up a Snag to grab the scrolling page, then send that straight to the page in my notes that I want.
  
• I can annotate my screen captures and then send them to OneNote. Since the OneNote clipping tool doesn’t let me do annotations, this is a biggie for me. I hate that when I annotate a capture in OneNote, the annotations don’t move with the capture if I drag the capture. By using Snagit, I can capture my content, annotate it, and then send it to OneNote. Really slick.
• I want to capture specific objects from PPT or a web page and drop them in OneNote. I can copy and paste, but I have to hope that the person who created the object did it right in order to always get what I want. Now, I can snag the object and send the object to my notes.

Posted: July 31st, 2007 under Clipboard & Print Screen, Taskbar & Utilities - 6 Comments.