OneNote PowerToys - Latest Comments in Ideas for PowerToys?

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

Frustrated me — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:30:54 -0000

I'm searching for shrink font, grow font, change case and format painter in OneNote. I couldn't find them. I'd like to see these tools added if they're not there already. If they are there, could you please tell me where? Thanks!

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

Peter Helstrup — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:13:39 -0000

I have to agree with Michael, a "sort pages by date" function would be nice. I actually don't understand why it isn't default in Onenote.

Please could anyone help me?

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

Matus Bonete — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:09:30 -0000

Visualizing Options.

I would be fantastic to switch between different visualisations of my notes. Maybe going from the notebook view where notes are organized in notebooks to a kind of mindmap view, where the links between the pages are used in order to create automatically a graph or an mindmap where I can navigate in etc. Of course it should be possible to make the map manually as well (where the nodes are the pages).

There are a lot of different views one can imagine: a chronographical view (diary type) and so on... (Tinderbox for Mac might be an inspiration as well)... go go go...

Matus.

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

Jason — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:34:43 -0000

IntegratedAD security -- I use a shared notbook for my IT Department. I would like to restrict certain tabs to certan members of my department, for instance, a tab for Network Operations, another for Helpdesk -- with some general tabs accessible to all IT, and other accessible only to specific users based on AD Group memership.

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

Kevin — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:16:28 -0000

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.

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

ben — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:55:50 -0000

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.

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

Scott Klein — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:16:08 -0000

A power toy to change the page tab color, we have notebook and section colors.

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

Alexander Ioffe — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:14:28 -0000

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.

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

Michael — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:47:00 -0000

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.

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

John — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:15:41 -0000

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

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

David — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:17:24 -0000

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.

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

Hector — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:41:04 -0000

- 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

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

ton — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:35:24 -0000

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

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

Brian Rous — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:57:26 -0000

An add-on that lets you embed flash (*.swf) files would also be useful.

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

ThomasK — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:35:56 -0000

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

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

craig mackenzie — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:37:21 -0000

Unlimited tags

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

adminid — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:00:23 -0000

Update to "Daily Journal" PowerToy
- Easier config in 2007
- Other enhancements?

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

adminid — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:45:48 -0000

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

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

Peter Lewis — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:08:58 -0000

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.

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

matias — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:27:21 -0000

- 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.

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

adminid — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:57:32 -0000

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.

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

adminid — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:33:33 -0000

Update of "OneNote 2007 + MindManager" (MindJet Labs) to work with v7.

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

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

Brian Rous — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:25:35 -0000

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

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

Alceste — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:18:25 -0000

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

Re: Ideas for PowerToys?

Pavel Calda — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:59:00 -0000

Print individual containers and individual pages.
Better integration with Outlook: sync To-Do, Tasks

Thank you.