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My OneNote Wish List

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Let me be absolutely clear - I have no inside information about what is planned for Office 12, but after my little moan yesterday I got thinking about what I'd do if I were a OneNote PM.  So here's my own personal wish-list for OneNote v.Next.

 

  • Full extensibility - A native .NET API
  • Better visualisation of notes - The tabbed page metaphor works for a while but quickly becomes difficult to manage when you take notes in meetings almost every day. I really hope we can come up with something really innovative here - perhaps making use of the upcoming Avalon presentation layer to help me categorize, group and define relationships between notes and sections.
  • Add links to other notes pages (in the same way that in Word I can add links to document sections). This could use the CTRL-K command like other Office apps, but perhaps wiki-style linking would be appropriate too?
  • Some usability work on toolbars when working with ink on a Tablet PC. Personally I find the menu commands and buttons too small and fiddly when working with a pen-input device. I hope our user experience folks take a hard look at this for Office 12.
  • I want to be able to post my notes up to a server running a web service so that I can sync my notes to other machines and locations.
  • I want OneNote to be able to understand my notes and suggest to me other related pages, notes or even documents based on the stuff I am writing about.

 

What would you like to see added or changed in the next version of OneNote?

Comments

  • Anonymous
    October 08, 2004
    Unless I'm missing something, some way to"hook" writing areas together. For example, I have my usual outline in one area, then I jot some information down "in the margin". I can draw an arrow over to the thing I'm making a margin note about, but if I edit the original text (or resize it, or whatever) the arrow now points to something completely different.
  • Anonymous
    October 08, 2004
    Tables, please give us tables.....
  • Anonymous
    October 08, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    October 08, 2004
    Mix OneNote with some Wiki concepts, and you will have not only digital replacement for piece of paper, but really powerfull "personal database".
  • Anonymous
    October 09, 2004
    On the posting to a web server thing - you can kinda do this with Sharepoint already. If you have a Sharepoint server published and available, it's do-able.
  • Anonymous
    October 13, 2004
  1. To have an agenda, where each note can hang on a day and time. When a note is made it's displayed by default on the day and time written.
    2. Possibility to store the notes on SQLServer, so I can access them everywhere.
    3. Possibility to add dropdownboxes in the header of all notes where the values come from a webservice e.g. so I can hang a note on a customer stored in a CRM product on SQLServer
    4. Find all notes that hang under an selected value see point 3.
    5. Drop emails within onenote (then they become a note), and onenote notes as emails within outlook

    This way everything is organised!