04-21-2004, 04:00 PM
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OneNote SP1 Preview Released, Features Pocket PC-To-OneNote Conversion
Microsoft has just released a "preview" version of Service Pack 1 for OneNote. If you've never used OneNote, it's a note-taking tool that's part of the Office System 2003. SP1 is loaded with new features, including picture and document integration, export to Word, real-time sharing, and more.
The most interesting new feature, though, is the ability to copy notes from your Pocket PC into OneNote. Apparently this was a frequently-requested feature. Unfortunately, though, it's only one-way, so you can't take OneNote notes and move them back onto the Pocket PC. I hope they'll develop a better long-term synchronization solution, but at least it's a start.
This Yahoo! News article suggests that the final release of SP1 will coincide with the release of SP1 for the rest of Office 2003, which is slated for this summer. Scattered reports suggest that this preview is stable; let us know if you've played with it.
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04-21-2004, 04:35 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jul 2003
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I've used OneNote a few times on my laptop but never really committed to it. One reason is that it doesn't work as naturally in a keyboard/mouse environment as it does in a stylus environment (it is really nice on a Tablet PC). The biggest reason is that it didn't support the Pocket PC. I try hard to avoid such general purpose apps that leave me with no mobile solution.
This is a good first step toward giving me access to OneNote on my PocketPC. I'll be glad to see true synchronization in the future if and when it happens.
I am curious as to why MS stopped at uploaded content from the PPC to OneNote. Could it be to just altogether avoid the issue of losing info on synch (a la Pocket Word, Pocket Excel)?
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04-21-2004, 04:52 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Dec 2006
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Re: OneNote SP1 Preview Released, Features Pocket PC-To-OneNote Conversion
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
Unfortunately, though, it's only one-way, so you can't take OneNote notes and move them back onto the Pocket PC. I hope they'll develop a better long-term synchronization solution, but at least it's a start.
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Got your attention? Good, now read this carefully:
Can you please make OneNote for Pocket PC, please? Add it to your task list for Pocket PC 200(3+n), where n is a positive non-zero integer.
Thank you for you attention! 
Now, back to the regular topic.... 
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04-21-2004, 05:08 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Re: OneNote SP1 Preview Released, Features Pocket PC-To-OneNote Conversion
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Originally Posted by manywhere
Can you please make OneNote for Pocket PC, please?
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If it's any consolation, you're not the first to ask. We as MVPs are begging for it...
--janak
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04-21-2004, 05:22 PM
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Sage
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Re: OneNote SP1 Preview Released, Features Pocket PC-To-OneNote Conversion
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
The most interesting new feature, though, is the ability to copy notes from your Pocket PC into OneNote.
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OK, after an exhaustive five minute study of the product I have found:
1) The phrase "to copy notes" refers to the Notes app on the Pocket PC. Anyone who got excited about there being a OneNote app on the PPC, please calm down; there is no PPC software involved in SP1, just an ActiveSync convertor.
2) The download is over 80 MB in size because it is the entire app, not just a service pack. To use the preview download you first have to uninstall OneNote 2003. When the final SP1 is released you'll have to uninstall the preview, reinstall OneNote 2003, and then apply the SP1.
3) The Notes viewed in OneNote are all copied to the same Section, titled Copied Pocket PC Notes. There doesn't seem to be a way of copying any folder structure in place on the Pocket PC to the OneNote organization.
4) The Notes are still viewable from Outlook and still retain the folder\name Subject line when viewed there.
Hope this helps.
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04-21-2004, 05:25 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Nov 2006
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One-note for Pocket PC?
Dunno...
One-note is *very* screen-area intensive.
(as in physical size)
The 4" VGA screen would help but I think you might need a virtual screen (pan-and-zoom) to handle OneNote files on a pocket PC.
I mean, onenote pages can handle a *lot* of data types and sources, not just text and ink...
Would a pocketPC version of journal do the trick?
Text-and-ink synching but no audio, video, or external links...
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04-21-2004, 05:32 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
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Re: OneNote SP1 Preview Released, Features Pocket PC-To-OneNote Conversion
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Originally Posted by Jimmy Dodd
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
The most interesting new feature, though, is the ability to copy notes from your Pocket PC into OneNote.
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OK, after an exhaustive five minute study of the product I have found:
1) The phrase "to copy notes" refers to the Notes app on the Pocket PC. Anyone who got excited about there being a OneNote app on the PPC, please calm down; there is no PPC software involved in SP1, just an ActiveSync convertor. |
Bleh.
And this is just enough of a product to keep third parties out of the market but is about as bad as Pocket Word is as far as being a useful solution. :cry:
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04-21-2004, 05:33 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Wow, I didn't realize how good OneNote was until today.
I could see myself using OneNote and a Tablet PC to take notes in my Computer Science and Organic Chemistry classes.
My next laptop will be a Tablet PC if they're still around in 3 years.
Microsoft, this is the kind of innovation I've been begging for! 
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04-21-2004, 06:27 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Originally Posted by zkmusa
Wow, I didn't realize how good OneNote was until today.
I could see myself using OneNote and a Tablet PC to take notes in my Computer Science and Organic Chemistry classes.
My next laptop will be a Tablet PC if they're still around in 3 years.
Microsoft, this is the kind of innovation I've been begging for! |
Fear not, they'll be around.
Ramp-up may be slower than the optimists at ACER thought but most other Tablet PC vendors seem satisfied with the sales rate.
And as people start to take notice of onenote, sales are steadily increasing...
(at work, five of the last six portables we've gotten have been tablets. When asked if they'd give up their tablets, their users mutter stuff about "cold-dead-fingers"...)
HP, ElectroVaya, ACER, and Toshiba are shipping second-generation products; Motion Computing is shipping their third gen, so Tablets are *not* going away. If nothing else, because neither APPLE nor the OpenSourcerors have the tech to compete in this arena.
BTW, if you don't mind last year's model, check this out:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...1000&CatId=219
Its what I use.
Not the fastest Tablet, but exactly adequate to the job.
Best ebook ready on the planet, too.
(In the "over 9-ounces" category, of course.) >;-)
I get nine non-stop hours of ebook reading.
The NEC Versalite is great, too, but it doesn't have the jog wheel on the side for paging like the HPs...
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04-21-2004, 06:28 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
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I like OneNote and just installed the new version yesterday. So far it's got some decent improvments over the original release, especially in the UI. I will be trying the Pocket PC note import soon.
I use it on a laptop, but agree that it would be far more useful on a Tablet PC. I tried to get my company to buy me a tablet instead of the laptop, but was told "we're not bringing those into our environment". 
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