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A OneNote haiku helps with the keeping a balanced perspective

  • Artigo

This item showed up in email today:

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A OneNote Haiku. This was written on our whiteboard by our coffee machines, and long time readers may know I've mentioned this before in an attempt at getting some testing completed.  For what it’s worth, I echo this sentiment and humbly suggest a change to make the first line read “My lovely OneNote.”

This week the topic on the board was simply "Office Haiku." I guess this one stood out to OneNote for two reasons. First and obviously, this mentions OneNote. In some ways, we are still the "new kid on the block," so any time we get mentioned creates a sense of pride.

The second reason this stood out (to me at least) was the last line - "Do not let me down." That's key for us and helps temper that feeling of pride mentioning OneNote brings. We don't want to lose your data, corrupt it, munge it, move it, lose it, prevent you from finding it, slow you down when trying to enter it and so on. No application ever wants to have this behavior, but when you are the "new kid on the block," it is twice as important to build that trust.

The lesson here is obvious - keep the trust intact.

Let me know if we don't.

Questions, comments, concerns and criticisms always welcome,

John

Comments

  • Anonymous
    October 07, 2009
    I've been a faithful OneNote user since Fall of 2003 and I LOVE IT!  I evangelize about it to everyone that I can, I can't understand why everyone doesn't use it. Great work, OneNote team!

  • Anonymous
    October 07, 2009
    Wow - in OneNote terms, that is a LONG time.  I guess you have earned the title of "OneNote Old Timer"! (oot?) :)

  • Anonymous
    October 07, 2009
    Interesting timing on this article- there have been a few posts on the Office 2010 Connect site about ON2010 not being able to import Onenote pages created in ON2007 beta in any readable fashion.   I am one of those affected people, and let me tell you it's sorta scary to not be sure which of my valuable information will not be readable after Office 2010.   Maybe you can push back on MS to support a MODI conversion tool for those of us.  Onenote is an information storage tool- let's make sure it's a reliable one.

  • Anonymous
    October 07, 2009
    Feel free to email me the files.  The email link is at the upper right.  I can take a look and see if our new builds are working better than the preview.

  • Anonymous
    October 07, 2009
    The response on Connect is that this is 'by design.'  I know that beta applications aren't production stuff, but when ON 2007 read the pages just fine, you'd sorta expect ON 2010 to do the same thing.   I'll email you, and thanks for looking into this.