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One Note ?
--scanning through results of a "Hijack This" scan,
I see numerous references to something of MS's called "One Note". What is that? |
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One Note ?
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:10:32 -0500, Pfsszxt wrote:
--scanning through results of a "Hijack This" scan, I see numerous references to something of MS's called "One Note". What is that? Although I already knew the answer, I just did a Google search to find a link for you. It took a fraction of a second to find https://www.onenote.com/ In the future, please do a web search yourself, and ask questions like this here only if you can't find the answer. |
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Pfsszxt wrote:
--scanning through results of a "Hijack This" scan, I see numerous references to something of MS's called "One Note". What is that? Less than two notes. |
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One Note ?
On 3/28/2017 10:22 AM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:10:32 -0500, Pfsszxt wrote: --scanning through results of a "Hijack This" scan, I see numerous references to something of MS's called "One Note". What is that? Although I already knew the answer, I just did a Google search to find a link for you. It took a fraction of a second to find https://www.onenote.com/ In the future, please do a web search yourself, and ask questions like this here only if you can't find the answer. I'm sorry for all the trouble I've caused you. I know you have some important things you could have been doing and I forced you to stop that just to respond to me. |
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One Note ?
On 3/28/2017 10:22 AM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:10:32 -0500, Pfsszxt wrote: --scanning through results of a "Hijack This" scan, I see numerous references to something of MS's called "One Note". What is that? Although I already knew the answer, I just did a Google search to find a link for you. It took a fraction of a second to find https://www.onenote.com/ In the future, please do a web search yourself, and ask questions like this here only if you can't find the answer. I'm sorry for all the trouble I've caused you. I know you have some important things you could have been doing and I forced you to stop that just to respond to me. |
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:42:05 -0500, Pfsszxt wrote:
On 3/28/2017 10:22 AM, Ken Blake wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:10:32 -0500, Pfsszxt wrote: --scanning through results of a "Hijack This" scan, I see numerous references to something of MS's called "One Note". What is that? Although I already knew the answer, I just did a Google search to find a link for you. It took a fraction of a second to find https://www.onenote.com/ In the future, please do a web search yourself, and ask questions like this here only if you can't find the answer. I'm sorry for all the trouble I've caused you. I know you have some important things you could have been doing and I forced you to stop that just to respond to me. As you well know, you didn't force me to do anything. I did it because I wanted to help you. And my second paragraph, beginning "In the future...," was another attempt to help--to help you to learn how to solve problems by yourself. But with your snotty attitude, I'll try to remember not to try to help you again. |
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On 3/28/2017 10:22 AM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:10:32 -0500, Pfsszxt wrote: --scanning through results of a "Hijack This" scan, I see numerous references to something of MS's called "One Note". What is that? Although I already knew the answer, I just did a Google search to find a link for you. It took a fraction of a second to find https://www.onenote.com/ In the future, please do a web search yourself, and ask questions like this here only if you can't find the answer. Well, I am so sorry thaat you were forced to read my post and to take the time to write a response. I know how valuable your time is. |
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One Note ?
In message , Ken Blake
writes: On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:10:32 -0500, Pfsszxt wrote: --scanning through results of a "Hijack This" scan, I see numerous references to something of MS's called "One Note". What is that? Although I already knew the answer, I just did a Google search to find a link for you. It took a fraction of a second to find https://www.onenote.com/ In the future, please do a web search yourself, and ask questions like this here only if you can't find the answer. I can't help thinking OneNote has a lot of emperor's new clothes about it, but I'm obviously not "getting" it. Shortly after it arrived (at least after my previous employer got it, which I _think_ wasn't long after it arrived), we had lectures one could go to about it, given by someone I think might have been from Microsoft; regardless of whether he was or not, his enthusiasm was very refreshing. And subsequently at least one person I otherwise respect waxed enthusiastic about it (OneNote) too. But I really couldn't see what it could do for me that I couldn't do perfectly well with all the tools that I already had. I think it's just a different way of working, whose advantages I am not seeing. (Similar to "Workspace", which I also don't "get", but that employer was very much embracing, more or less as a replacement for shared drives, as far as I could understand it.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf [What's your guilty pleasure?] Why should you feel guilty about pleasure? - Michel Roux Jr in Radio Times 2-8 February 2013 |
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:25:58 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: In message , Ken Blake writes: On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:10:32 -0500, Pfsszxt wrote: --scanning through results of a "Hijack This" scan, I see numerous references to something of MS's called "One Note". What is that? Although I already knew the answer, I just did a Google search to find a link for you. It took a fraction of a second to find https://www.onenote.com/ In the future, please do a web search yourself, and ask questions like this here only if you can't find the answer. I can't help thinking OneNote has a lot of emperor's new clothes about it, but I'm obviously not "getting" it. Shortly after it arrived (at least after my previous employer got it, which I _think_ wasn't long after it arrived), we had lectures one could go to about it, given by someone I think might have been from Microsoft; regardless of whether he was or not, his enthusiasm was very refreshing. And subsequently at least one person I otherwise respect waxed enthusiastic about it (OneNote) too. But I really couldn't see what it could do for me that I couldn't do perfectly well with all the tools that I already had. I think it's just a different way of working, whose advantages I am not seeing. (Similar to "Workspace", which I also don't "get", but that employer was very much embracing, more or less as a replacement for shared drives, as far as I could understand it.) I used OneNote for a while when it first came out, but I switched to EverNote, which I like better. Don't ask me why I like EverNote better; it's been too long and I can't remember. |
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:00:10 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:42:05 -0500, Pfsszxt wrote: I'm sorry for all the trouble I've caused you. I know you have some important things you could have been doing and I forced you to stop that just to respond to me. As you well know, you didn't force me to do anything. I did it because I wanted to help you. And my second paragraph, beginning "In the future...," was another attempt to help--to help you to learn how to solve problems by yourself. But with your snotty attitude, I'll try to remember not to try to help you again. Well said, Ken. But I think you forgot to mention refunding every penny he paid you. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com/ http://OakRoadSystems.com/ Shikata ga nai... |
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:25:58 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
I can't help thinking OneNote has a lot of emperor's new clothes about it, but I'm obviously not "getting" it. I found a use for it, and it actually does a good job. I've embarked on scanning some of my paperbacks that are literally falling apart from repeated readings. Never one to do things by halves, I am not saving scanned images, but rather OCRing them and HTMLizing them, eventually converting to an e-reader format. As it happens, I don't have an OCR application. So I googled, and found someone's article explaining how to use OneNote OCR! Basically, it scans every picture you paste into it for text, and you can right- click any picture and select "Copy Text from Picture" to get the text into the clipboard. It does a decent enough job, though it sometimes confuses rn with m. It even handles multiple columns gracefully, scanning column 1 and then column 2 automatically. Its OCR is buried in that right-click menu; I still have no idea what OneNote is supposed to be used for. (And little interest, truth be told.) -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com/ http://OakRoadSystems.com/ Shikata ga nai... |
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One Note ? (now and OCR)
In message , Stan Brown
writes: On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:25:58 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: I can't help thinking OneNote has a lot of emperor's new clothes about it, but I'm obviously not "getting" it. I found a use for it, and it actually does a good job. [] Its OCR is buried in that right-click menu; I still have no idea what OneNote is supposed to be used for. (And little interest, truth be told.) Basically, you're using it purely for its OCR function. Not its main purpose, inasmuch as I understand what its main purpose _is_ (which I do only hazily). There are plenty of free OCR app.s (not sure how many do columns well); you might find one (or more) of them suits you better (I have one called FreeOCR, though I'm not recommending it or the opposite, as it's so long since I used it I can't remember if it's any good); you also used to often get one with most scanners (OmniPage is a good one). Superseded versions of commercial ones are also sometimes available for a song or even free. There is also at least one buried among the tools that come with Microsoft Office - not free as such, but free if you _have_ Office. Having said all that, doing OCR involves a certain amount of learning to use whatever software you use, and if you've learnt how to use the OCR function of OneNote, it might not be worth the effort to learn a new one. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. -Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910) |
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One Note ? (now and OCR)
On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:17:18 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: In message , Stan Brown writes: On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:25:58 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: I can't help thinking OneNote has a lot of emperor's new clothes about it, but I'm obviously not "getting" it. I found a use for it, and it actually does a good job. [] Its OCR is buried in that right-click menu; I still have no idea what OneNote is supposed to be used for. (And little interest, truth be told.) Basically, you're using it purely for its OCR function. Not its main purpose, inasmuch as I understand what its main purpose _is_ (which I do only hazily). Its purpose seems to be much the same as Evernote, except that I found a book on Evernote that explained how to use it. I found several books in bookshops and libraries that purported to explain how to use MS Office, but they said nothing about One Note, -- Steve Hayes http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm http://khanya.wordpress.com |
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 13:26:52 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:25:58 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: In message , Ken Blake writes: On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:10:32 -0500, Pfsszxt wrote: --scanning through results of a "Hijack This" scan, I see numerous references to something of MS's called "One Note". What is that? Although I already knew the answer, I just did a Google search to find a link for you. It took a fraction of a second to find https://www.onenote.com/ In the future, please do a web search yourself, and ask questions like this here only if you can't find the answer. I can't help thinking OneNote has a lot of emperor's new clothes about it, but I'm obviously not "getting" it. Shortly after it arrived (at least after my previous employer got it, which I _think_ wasn't long after it arrived), we had lectures one could go to about it, given by someone I think might have been from Microsoft; regardless of whether he was or not, his enthusiasm was very refreshing. And subsequently at least one person I otherwise respect waxed enthusiastic about it (OneNote) too. But I really couldn't see what it could do for me that I couldn't do perfectly well with all the tools that I already had. I think it's just a different way of working, whose advantages I am not seeing. (Similar to "Workspace", which I also don't "get", but that employer was very much embracing, more or less as a replacement for shared drives, as far as I could understand it.) I used OneNote for a while when it first came out, but I switched to EverNote, which I like better. Don't ask me why I like EverNote better; it's been too long and I can't remember. I suspect the two are more similar than different, but I use neither so what do I know? Some of my colleagues use OneNote and say they like it. It allows them to create tabs along the top, one for each project, then within any of those horizontal tabs they can create multiple tabs along the left side, allowing multiple levels of organization. Or maybe I have it backwards. They like being able to dump information of almost any format in there without spending much time worrying about it. It apparently happily accepts text files, screen captures, emails, HTML documents, Zip archives, and much more. I always tell myself I should start using OneNote, but it hasn't happened yet. -- Char Jackson |
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 22:09:33 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:
I used OneNote for a while when it first came out, but I switched to EverNote, which I like better. Don't ask me why I like EverNote better; it's been too long and I can't remember. I suspect the two are more similar than different, but I use neither so what do I know? http://manage-this.com/evernote-vs-onenote/ Original post a little old, but comments add more up-to-date info. |
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