Do you use IE to OneNote or Print to OneNote powertoys?

[Alex]

Hi everyone, my name is Alex, I am a Program Manager on the OneNote team.

I am investigating features we might add to future releases, and I wanted to
ask you some questions about how you work today with a few OneNote power toys.

1. Do you currently use the IE to OneNote powertoy? (sends your selected
content to OneNote as html)
2. How useful do you find it?
3. Can you describe a specific task where you find yourself using it most
often?
4. What do you wish it did better?

5. If you have the Print to OneNote powertoy, do you ever use it in IE while
browsing the web?
6. When do you find yourself using this over the IE to OneNote powertoy
(what are you doing that is different)?

7. If you had to choose between IE to OneNote (sends html) versus Print from
IE to OneNote (only consider usage with IE), which would you choose? How
easy or hard was that decision?

As always, thanks so much for your input. We appreciate the time you spend
helping us make this product better.

-Alex <MS>

 

[James Gockel]

Responces in Original Message

Hi everyone, my name is Alex, I am a Program Manager on the OneNote team.

I am investigating features we might add to future releases, and I wanted
to
ask you some questions about how you work today with a few OneNote power
toys.

1. Do you currently use the IE to OneNote powertoy? (sends your selected
content to OneNote as html)

Not really!

2. How useful do you find it? Sucky

3. Can you describe a specific task where you find yourself using it most
often? Never
4. What do you wish it did better?

Actual Clean representation of the original webpage... Where Images are
inline with the text, not on the next line, making the note extra long.

5. If you have the Print to OneNote powertoy, do you ever use it in IE
while
browsing the web? Yes.

6. When do you find yourself using this over the IE to OneNote powertoy
(what are you doing that is different)?

Any time that a copy of a webpage is needed.

7. If you had to choose between IE to OneNote (sends html) versus Print
from
IE to OneNote (only consider usage with IE), which would you choose?

If IE to Onenote had better page representation, and had some way to make a
jpg out of any item that can't be imported into onenote, and kept everything
inline and proper to how the page was designed. I'd use IE to Onenote.

How

 

[mbwpgh]

I have been using the One Note to IE Power Toy and it would be quite useful
if it would transfer the formatting. Often, I think in multiple framed
pages, the transfer is almost unintelligible and I have to use cut and paste
instead. In almost every case, I have remove garbage from the transferred
pages.

 

[Elbert]

I tried IE to ON, but as I recall it puts the page in a special section for
web pages, which is almost never where I want it. Of course, I could move it
to a different section, but that's not real convenient in ON.

I sometimes use the ON image writer because it lets me put the image where I
want it more easily, although you do have to work your way through folders
and subfolders until you find the file (oops...section) you want to put it
in, but that's not too bad if you're careful about how you organize stuff in
ON. I'm OK with a picture rather than HTML--usually I just want the
information, and a picture is fine.

I find myself using the ON screen clipper most often--I can select just the
information I want, it puts it on the ON page where I'm taking notes, not on
a separate page, and if I use IE as the browser it puts a link to the
original web page so I can go to the whole thing if I like.

Elbert

 

[Natalie]

Hi alex,

1. Do you currently use the IE to OneNote powertoy? (sends your selected
content to OneNote as html)
Every DAY
2. How useful do you find it? The powertoy works great until you use pdf files
3. Can you describe a specific task where you find yourself using it most
often? I copy articles for school on to one note to decided which ones i
will use to write the paper on
4. What do you wish it did better? Import pdf and other format files and the
ability or retaining the original format.

5. If you have the Print to OneNote powertoy, do you ever use it in IE while
browsing the web? YES
6. When do you find yourself using this over the IE to OneNote powertoy
(what are you doing that is different)? PDF files

7. If you had to choose between IE to OneNote (sends html) versus Print from
IE to OneNote (only consider usage with IE), which would you choose? How
easy or hard was that decision? Easy decision, the first one since one has
the ability to still highlight. Whith the print to onenote one does not keep
the ability to highlight unless you do it in freehand mode.

As always, thanks so much for your input. We appreciate the time you spend
helping us make this product better.

-Alex <MS>

 

[Natalie]

Mike instead of cutting and pasting you can use several different powertoys.
The first one is for transfering web pages so you have the ability to
highlight. The second is one where you want to retain the web page format and
have to free had highligh, and the third is for pdf files being sent to
onenote (freehand highlighting as well). You can also set the resolution by
printing the document with control p, then properties, then advanced (on the
bottom, not the top tab) and then selecting the print quality of your liking
(i find 300x300 sufficient). If you need anything else, please email me at
(e-mail address removed).

Nat

 

[Natalie]

By the way, when you use a onenote powertoy, you can also print just to one
page in onenote instead of one sub page for every page.

 

[Karel]

1. YES very often
2. Very
3. Newspaper articles, MS KB pages and other tips to keep for later
4. Some Newspaper articles come out garbled (different language) so I have
to resort to cut & paste. The text and graphics get shifted on the page.