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  #1  
Old March 28th 17, 04:10 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Pfsszxt
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Default 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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Old March 28th 17, 04:22 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ken Blake[_5_]
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Default 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.
  #3  
Old March 28th 17, 04:24 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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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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Old March 28th 17, 05:41 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Pfsszxt
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Default 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.
  #5  
Old March 28th 17, 05:42 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Pfsszxt
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Default 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.
  #6  
Old March 28th 17, 07:00 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ken Blake[_5_]
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Default One Note ?

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.
  #7  
Old March 28th 17, 07:05 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Pfsszxt
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Default 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.

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.
  #8  
Old March 28th 17, 08:25 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default 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
  #9  
Old March 28th 17, 09:26 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ken Blake[_5_]
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Default One Note ?

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.
  #10  
Old March 28th 17, 11:20 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Stan Brown
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Default One Note ?

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...
  #11  
Old March 28th 17, 11:25 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Stan Brown
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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...
  #12  
Old March 29th 17, 12:17 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default 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

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Old March 29th 17, 01:04 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Steve Hayes[_2_]
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Default 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,


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Old March 29th 17, 04:09 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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Default One Note ?

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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Old March 29th 17, 11:47 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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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/

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