Can OneNote capture web pages ?

[ScottHW]

I was expecting OneNote to be able to capture web pages. I thought I would
find a toolbar buton in Windows Explorer saying something like "Cature to
OneNote", but it appears you have to cut and paste. How boring. Am I wrong
? Does anyone know if that is perhaps coming in SP1 ?

Thanks,
Scott

 

[Kathy J]

Scott,
Have you tried selecting the web content, then using drag and drop to
OneNote? I find it works pretty well. If I need just an area, I select it
and then do the drag and drop. If I need the whole web page, I do CTRL-A and
then do the drag and drop.

Another option, once you go to SP1, is to use the screen clip to get some of
the content. It still comes over as live links, so the content is clickable.

In both cases, you get the annotation of where it came.

Now, if you really want to get fancy, you could use the API for pushing
content to OneNote (SP1 feature) and build a tool that asks for the URL and
does the push for you. Then you would have your "Capture to OneNote". If
you do this: Let me know. I would love to test it

Does that get you any closer?

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[Kathy J]

Ben just found out that I gave some bad advice here. Taking a screen clip of
the web page won't cut it for what Scott wants. The screen clip puts in a
picture of the data, not the data. Even though it looks like you can click
the links, you can't.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
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[Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote]

Ben just found out that I gave some bad advice here. Taking a screen
clip of the web page won't cut it for what Scott wants. The screen clip
puts in a picture of the data, not the data. Even though it looks like
you can click the links, you can't.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

Never fear my child. Say 3 "Hail Pratleys" and all will be forgiven. ;-)

 

[Chris_Pratley \(MS\)]

Bless you my son.

BTW, an IE2OneNote powertoy is being refined by some people in our internal
user group so maybe you'll see it available before too long.

Chris Pratley (MS)
OneNote design team

 

[Grant Robertson]

Bless you my son.

BTW, an IE2OneNote powertoy is being refined by some people in our internal
user group so maybe you'll see it available before too long.

Cool, I may have get religion!

 

[Steve Silverwood]

I was expecting OneNote to be able to capture web pages. I thought I would
find a toolbar buton in Windows Explorer saying something like "Cature to
OneNote", but it appears you have to cut and paste. How boring. Am I wrong
? Does anyone know if that is perhaps coming in SP1 ?

If you "print" the web page using the Microsoft Document Image Writer,
you can create an image file (.mdi extension) that can be pulled into
OneNote. Granted, it's not really editable, but it's there.

--

-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email: (e-mail address removed)

 

[ScottHW]

Thanks everyone for chiming in. I have been using a great tool called
Onfolio that captures web pages or snippets of pages. I was hoping I could
chuck it for OneNote so I wouldn't have to do my research in multiple
places. Not there yet

Scott

 

[Chris_Pratley \(MS\)]

Well, I do web research in OneNote just fine. I keep a little OneNote window
open, always "on top", then drag stuff off web pages into it as needed. What
exactly do you miss from OneNote that is in OnFolio, is it really that
critical, and are you sure you've looked at what OneNote does that OnFolio
doesn't? (On Folio is really only for web research - it isn't general
purpose like OneNote is, but maybe that's all you need?)


Chris Pratley (MS)
OneNote design team

 

[Grant Robertson]

Well, I do web research in OneNote just fine. I keep a little OneNote window
open, always "on top", then drag stuff off web pages into it as needed. What
exactly do you miss from OneNote that is in OnFolio, is it really that
critical, and are you sure you've looked at what OneNote does that OnFolio
doesn't? (On Folio is really only for web research - it isn't general
purpose like OneNote is, but maybe that's all you need?)

I can tell you the big problem, Chris, you loose almost all of your
formatting. Even when you use the 'Keep original formatting' paste
option. The stuff clipped from the web page doesn't look anything like
the web page you were looking at. Snippets of text are OK (with a few
issues) but anything else comes out looking like crap. Then you have
about 5 minutes of cleanup to do if you don't want to just leave it a
jumbled mess.

The screen clipping tool is not a solution either. Yes, it LOOKS like the
web page you were looking at but none of it is editable or searchable. It
is just a big picture hogging disk space in your My Notebook folder.

As I have stated many times earlier, the OneNote page should have it's
own stripped down HTML display engine. Please, please do not use the full
IE HTML engine. I don't want to have to worry about copying and pasting
hidden malicious HTML code into my OneNote files. Just the formatting
please. No java script, no Active-X. Just the picture of what those
objects looked like on the web page placed in the right location within
the text.

This is another area where OLE could come into play. Make this inserted
web clip into an embedded object and let us move it around as a unit like
any other OLE object. The OLE server app could be a special stripped
down, secure browser that gets installed as just another common Microsoft
Office option. It would be installed with OneNote but not actually PART
of OneNote. It could then also be used in any other Office application
like any other OLE object server.

 

[J. Arthur Random]

This would be a wonderful addition. Now that I've started archiving web
pages in OneNote, I'm also hoping for better layout preservation.