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Some of the not-so good blog posts about OneNote

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Michael Harrison wrote a comment on my last blog post roundup post:

There is definitely a lot of good in ON 2007. Could you comment on some of the not-so good?

I am actually quite happy to see someone blog about the things they don't like about OneNote because at times I find that more interesting than the positive posts, trust me we like reading all feedback.  Okay I will reply on Michael blogs but I will write some comments here:

  1. I think the tag summary pages should link back to the source page.  The feature was unchanged since ON2003 when we didn't have hyperlinks.  I still think that summary pages are very useful and provide users a way to merge todo lists and other set of information (questions for exam, etc).
  2. Search bug isn't officially a 'bug'.  There is only one recognizer in the app and when you write something we display the top hit in the page tab (that is why is says Contact on the page tab) but we also have other high percentage hits which is why you see a search hit for "lon".  Same recognizer providing ranked results.
  3. Good feature idea, we do have crossout but the others would be nice additions.

Please post your pros & cons we like reading everything you all have to say, also thanks again Michael for posting some of your pain-points and thoughts.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2007
    I like the new OneNote mobile feature that was added in the 2007 version. But I don't like that it only uses one notebook. I would like to see the ability to mark which notebooks you would like to sync with the mobile version.

  • Anonymous
    July 17, 2007
    OneNote is a great tool for me, which is almost always open on my desktop -next to outlook. What I really miss however, is in Word 2007 and in Windows Journal: the panning hand. When reading notes, a panning hand would make navigating long notes so much easier! Especially when using the stylus (or touch I presume), scrollbars just aren’t the easiest way to quickly scan a page. BTW, are you already working on the next OneNote version? And are you already open for suggestions for that version? (And what about a mobile OneNote version for Symbian phones! :)

  • Anonymous
    July 17, 2007
    I've blogged about this before, but the spell checking and auto correct is far too primitive. We need Change All and the right-mouse autocorrect menu - run a spell check on the same text in Word 2and OneNote to see how poor ON is by comparison. And it's ON where I'm bashing out notes in a hurry and most likely to make mistakes. I have to copy my text into Word and spell check it there to be able to create autocorrections without typing the error in by hand - that's the equivalent of Word XP five years ago! OneNote Mobile; pleeeeeeease could we have ink as an option on Pocket PC? And it has to sync into a notebook that can sync onto the server with every other notebook I have; why is the mobile notebook the only one I can't see on multiple machines. Please make it easier to order and save custom flags. I use 5 custom flags and I switch PCs regularly and I have to add them and move the up the meu by hand each time - but unless I explicitly use File > Exit they're not saved. Please save them as soon as I add them, and how about an option to sort the list by frequency of use - in the menu, I mean, so my most used flags are at the top.

  • Anonymous
    July 17, 2007
    The top requests I get from my team are:

  1. Embedded Excel documents (though Sharepoint 2007's server excel may make this a moot point). Would be nice.
  2. Hard links - It's currently far too easy to break links by moving sections and pages. Would be nice for every link in all open notebooks to use hard-links so that moving stuff does not break your links.
  3. Native viewing in a Sharepoint server (Integrate the webber tool into the Sharepoint server software so that notebooks can be browsed directly on the sharepoint server).

  • Anonymous
    July 18, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    August 03, 2007
    Fix SharePoint integration.  I think I saw a post on someone's blog that the "section cannot be synced because access to the section file is denied" error is a known problem with OneNote and SharePoint, maybe due to the use of tables.  Every work day this frustrates me and I think about switching to file shares, but then when I travel to a site from which I can't use VPN, I realize why I put up with this horrible functionality.  Please, please fix it.

  • Anonymous
    August 04, 2007
    My greatest feature request is a bibliography function similar to what is in Word 07.  I am constantly taking notes and having to cite them (Thesis research).

  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2007
    sbreck - Fear not we are aware of this problem and working on a fix.  I have seen this enough times in our own shared notebooks on SharePoint that I want this fixed.  When SP1 comes out it should resolve this issue. Henry - Thanks for the feedback.

  • Anonymous
    September 13, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    March 23, 2009
    Feature request: A calendar with popup messages, OUTSIDE of Outlook. I use Outlook at work, but I use OneNote all the time. I want to be able to select some text in OneNote, enter a control-key sequence, and pop up a dialog with selected text and easy entry of date and time -- so I can turn a to-do item into something that pops up at 8:00 PM Tuesday. When the reminder pops up, I should have the option to enter another date/time, or to simply adjust the reminder to <n> minutes later, like the Outlook event popups. A calendar dialog with all the scheduled items, would be icing on the cake. Please! I'm a .NET coder, but I haven't looked into coding OneNote at all. Could I create something like this, myself? Does OneNote provide the hooks to capture control-key sequences? I could make it an external app, if I could hook the OneNote text pane and keystrokes. Maybe even post to a calendar on the web. Possible?

  • Anonymous
    November 27, 2009
    " I use Outlook at work, but I use OneNote all the time. I want to be able to select some text in OneNote, enter a control-key sequence, and pop up a dialog with selected text and easy entry of date and time -- so I can turn a to-do item into something that pops up at 8:00 PM Tuesday. When the reminder pops up, I should have the option to enter another date/time, or to simply adjust the reminder to <n> minutes later, like the Outlook event popups. A calendar dialog with all the scheduled items, would be icing on the cake." YES YES YES YES, I cannot emphasize enough how much this would improve Onenote's functionality for me.