Hot Keys while in Tablet config

[Jonathan]

I use ON2007 on a tablet for moment-to-moment content presentation and
classroom management in elementary school. This post asks for suggestions for
using (or mimicking the benefit of) OneNote hotkeys while in tablet
configuration. I checked the Help files. Nada.

I do as much as possible on the computer, because managing paperwork is my
weakest skill in teaching. Fifth graders love writing on the tablet,
especially when it's connected to the projector! I love hearing ANY
suggestion for better use of OneNote for elementary school.

Back to my question: Ok, so if I am in tablet mode how can I bounce around
my pages if I take the trouble to make a set of hot keys that call certain
pages immediately?


The pace of the day does not allow me to unhook the screen and rotate it,
etc. to get at the keyboard. Navigating the notebooks takes a while and is
dicey with the pen, unfortunately. The page I want may be buried. Just
entering the info wherever I am runs the [high]risk that the paragraph will
not get moved at the end of the day to the page it should be on. Complicating
this is the required switch to 1024 x 768 for the projector which constricts
what I can see on the screen.

Jonathan Rawle

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Aloha Jonathan jonathan7zerozero7(use numbers) at yahew dot usual domain,

I'm sort of curious to hear how the pen is "dicey" for navigating notebooks.
I do it all the time on my Acer -- what issues are you seeing there?

As for mimicking hotkeys in Tablet mode...what if you attached an external
USB or Bluetooth keyboard when you were in tablet mode and used it just for
activating hotkeys?

Or...would take more practice...if you were to attach a wireless mouse and
use something like AutoHotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com) to create mouse
gestures that would then activate the hotkey (or desired result)?

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr - MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

 

[Jonathan]

Ben, I have the high res screen on the Toshiba M400, so some of the
navigation artifacts are small. (I love the screen overall so I have no
qualms about that choice.) I can easily hit the "right click" button during
an operation, and if inking, that drops me out of ink.

I was inspired by David Rasmussen's [blog] description about shooting with
hyperlinks from one far-off corner of OneNote to another. These are
event-driven needs and hard to predict, except that some sudden tasks happen
a lot. So I thought I'd build a set of the links. However, most of them are
multiple keys pressed at once.

But I like your idea of a wireless presentation mouse with a 3-D gesture
space. The kids would love that! (It would have to be just for the teacher!)
The projectors rolling table is piled with stuff as it is so a full size
keyboard is hard to fit now. So when I really need to type with the laptop on
that table I open the screen and rotate it around.

Your suggestion made me think of those small number-entry keypads used by
auditors, etc, to augment a laptop's keyboard. Maybe that forem factor. I was
really hoping for a screen-based panel that could be invoked like the TIP.
Speaking of the TIP I have tried many ways to make the little floating
button show for a couple more seconds -- to be used to call the TIP into
view. It's gone TOO fast. Toshiba shrugged their collective shoulders on that
one.

The projector has a wireless port for laptop input but unfortunately that
hogs all the laptop wireless and I can't show any internat material live. I
am looking into web "collectors/aggregator software" like Adobe
Distiller/Catalog.

Anyway, I will look at the auto key tool.

Mahalo from the big island...

Jonathan Rawle

Aloha Jonathan jonathan7zerozero7(use numbers) at yahew dot usual domain,

I'm sort of curious to hear how the pen is "dicey" for navigating notebooks.
I do it all the time on my Acer -- what issues are you seeing there?

As for mimicking hotkeys in Tablet mode...what if you attached an external
USB or Bluetooth keyboard when you were in tablet mode and used it just for
activating hotkeys?

Or...would take more practice...if you were to attach a wireless mouse and
use something like AutoHotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com) to create mouse
gestures that would then activate the hotkey (or desired result)?

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr - MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

I use ON2007 on a tablet for moment-to-moment content presentation and
classroom management in elementary school. This post asks for
suggestions for using (or mimicking the benefit of) OneNote hotkeys
while in tablet configuration. I checked the Help files. Nada.

I do as much as possible on the computer, because managing paperwork
is my weakest skill in teaching. Fifth graders love writing on the
tablet, especially when it's connected to the projector! I love
hearing ANY suggestion for better use of OneNote for elementary
school.

Back to my question: Ok, so if I am in tablet mode how can I bounce
around my pages if I take the trouble to make a set of hot keys that
call certain pages immediately?

The pace of the day does not allow me to unhook the screen and rotate
it, etc. to get at the keyboard. Navigating the notebooks takes a
while and is dicey with the pen, unfortunately. The page I want may be
buried. Just entering the info wherever I am runs the [high]risk that
the paragraph will not get moved at the end of the day to the page it
should be on. Complicating this is the required switch to 1024 x 768
for the projector which constricts what I can see on the screen.

Jonathan Rawle

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Aloha Jonathan jonathan7zerozero7(use numbers) at yahew dot usual domain,

If you were to use a Bluetooth keyboard, especially a small one, you could
have the keyboard up to 30 feet away from the tablet -- maybe you've got
a little counter or desk space a couple of steps away?

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr - MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

Ben, I have the high res screen on the Toshiba M400, so some of the
navigation artifacts are small. (I love the screen overall so I have
no qualms about that choice.) I can easily hit the "right click"
button during an operation, and if inking, that drops me out of ink.

I was inspired by David Rasmussen's [blog] description about shooting
with hyperlinks from one far-off corner of OneNote to another. These
are event-driven needs and hard to predict, except that some sudden
tasks happen a lot. So I thought I'd build a set of the links.
However, most of them are multiple keys pressed at once.

But I like your idea of a wireless presentation mouse with a 3-D
gesture space. The kids would love that! (It would have to be just for
the teacher!) The projectors rolling table is piled with stuff as it
is so a full size keyboard is hard to fit now. So when I really need
to type with the laptop on that table I open the screen and rotate it
around.

Your suggestion made me think of those small number-entry keypads used
by
auditors, etc, to augment a laptop's keyboard. Maybe that forem
factor. I was
really hoping for a screen-based panel that could be invoked like the
TIP.
Speaking of the TIP I have tried many ways to make the little floating
button show for a couple more seconds -- to be used to call the TIP
into
view. It's gone TOO fast. Toshiba shrugged their collective shoulders
on that
one.
The projector has a wireless port for laptop input but unfortunately
that hogs all the laptop wireless and I can't show any internat
material live. I am looking into web "collectors/aggregator software"
like Adobe Distiller/Catalog.

Anyway, I will look at the auto key tool.

Mahalo from the big island...

Jonathan Rawle

Aloha Jonathan jonathan7zerozero7(use numbers) at yahew dot usual
domain,

I'm sort of curious to hear how the pen is "dicey" for navigating
notebooks. I do it all the time on my Acer -- what issues are you
seeing there?

As for mimicking hotkeys in Tablet mode...what if you attached an
external USB or Bluetooth keyboard when you were in tablet mode and
used it just for activating hotkeys?

Or...would take more practice...if you were to attach a wireless
mouse and use something like AutoHotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com)
to create mouse gestures that would then activate the hotkey (or
desired result)?

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr - MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

I use ON2007 on a tablet for moment-to-moment content presentation
and classroom management in elementary school. This post asks for
suggestions for using (or mimicking the benefit of) OneNote hotkeys
while in tablet configuration. I checked the Help files. Nada.

I do as much as possible on the computer, because managing paperwork
is my weakest skill in teaching. Fifth graders love writing on the
tablet, especially when it's connected to the projector! I love
hearing ANY suggestion for better use of OneNote for elementary
school.

Back to my question: Ok, so if I am in tablet mode how can I bounce
around my pages if I take the trouble to make a set of hot keys that
call certain pages immediately?

The pace of the day does not allow me to unhook the screen and
rotate it, etc. to get at the keyboard. Navigating the notebooks
takes a while and is dicey with the pen, unfortunately. The page I
want may be buried. Just entering the info wherever I am runs the
[high]risk that the paragraph will not get moved at the end of the
day to the page it should be on. Complicating this is the required
switch to 1024 x 768 for the projector which constricts what I can
see on the screen.

Jonathan Rawle

 

[Patrick]

I use a program called Stroke It that you can create right moose button
gestures and map to different hotkeys or key combinations. it works great
with my pen button.

check it out at: http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/

--
Patrick Johnson
Johnson Operations Inc
847 991 2233

Aloha Jonathan jonathan7zerozero7(use numbers) at yahew dot usual domain,

If you were to use a Bluetooth keyboard, especially a small one, you could
have the keyboard up to 30 feet away from the tablet -- maybe you've got
a little counter or desk space a couple of steps away?

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr - MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

Ben, I have the high res screen on the Toshiba M400, so some of the
navigation artifacts are small. (I love the screen overall so I have
no qualms about that choice.) I can easily hit the "right click"
button during an operation, and if inking, that drops me out of ink.

I was inspired by David Rasmussen's [blog] description about shooting
with hyperlinks from one far-off corner of OneNote to another. These
are event-driven needs and hard to predict, except that some sudden
tasks happen a lot. So I thought I'd build a set of the links.
However, most of them are multiple keys pressed at once.

But I like your idea of a wireless presentation mouse with a 3-D
gesture space. The kids would love that! (It would have to be just for
the teacher!) The projectors rolling table is piled with stuff as it
is so a full size keyboard is hard to fit now. So when I really need
to type with the laptop on that table I open the screen and rotate it
around.

Your suggestion made me think of those small number-entry keypads used
by
auditors, etc, to augment a laptop's keyboard. Maybe that forem
factor. I was
really hoping for a screen-based panel that could be invoked like the
TIP.
Speaking of the TIP I have tried many ways to make the little floating
button show for a couple more seconds -- to be used to call the TIP
into
view. It's gone TOO fast. Toshiba shrugged their collective shoulders
on that
one.
The projector has a wireless port for laptop input but unfortunately
that hogs all the laptop wireless and I can't show any internat
material live. I am looking into web "collectors/aggregator software"
like Adobe Distiller/Catalog.

Anyway, I will look at the auto key tool.

Mahalo from the big island...

Jonathan Rawle

Aloha Jonathan jonathan7zerozero7(use numbers) at yahew dot usual
domain,

I'm sort of curious to hear how the pen is "dicey" for navigating
notebooks. I do it all the time on my Acer -- what issues are you
seeing there?

As for mimicking hotkeys in Tablet mode...what if you attached an
external USB or Bluetooth keyboard when you were in tablet mode and
used it just for activating hotkeys?

Or...would take more practice...if you were to attach a wireless
mouse and use something like AutoHotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com)
to create mouse gestures that would then activate the hotkey (or
desired result)?

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr - MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm
I use ON2007 on a tablet for moment-to-moment content presentation
and classroom management in elementary school. This post asks for
suggestions for using (or mimicking the benefit of) OneNote hotkeys
while in tablet configuration. I checked the Help files. Nada.

I do as much as possible on the computer, because managing paperwork
is my weakest skill in teaching. Fifth graders love writing on the
tablet, especially when it's connected to the projector! I love
hearing ANY suggestion for better use of OneNote for elementary
school.

Back to my question: Ok, so if I am in tablet mode how can I bounce
around my pages if I take the trouble to make a set of hot keys that
call certain pages immediately?

The pace of the day does not allow me to unhook the screen and
rotate it, etc. to get at the keyboard. Navigating the notebooks
takes a while and is dicey with the pen, unfortunately. The page I
want may be buried. Just entering the info wherever I am runs the
[high]risk that the paragraph will not get moved at the end of the
day to the page it should be on. Complicating this is the required
switch to 1024 x 768 for the projector which constricts what I can
see on the screen.

Jonathan Rawle

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

The solution I use is the keyboard and "mouse" offered by Gyro. Two
versions, one works from up to 30 feet away, the other up to 100 feet. I
love mine. Makes a big difference when working in a group with my tablet. A
feature of the Gyros that your kids will love is that you can plug in two
sets of mouse/keyboard controllers (they go in a USB slot) and two people
can control things at the same time.

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

Aloha Jonathan jonathan7zerozero7(use numbers) at yahew dot usual domain,

If you were to use a Bluetooth keyboard, especially a small one, you could
have the keyboard up to 30 feet away from the tablet -- maybe you've got a
little counter or desk space a couple of steps away?

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr - MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

Ben, I have the high res screen on the Toshiba M400, so some of the
navigation artifacts are small. (I love the screen overall so I have
no qualms about that choice.) I can easily hit the "right click"
button during an operation, and if inking, that drops me out of ink.

I was inspired by David Rasmussen's [blog] description about shooting
with hyperlinks from one far-off corner of OneNote to another. These
are event-driven needs and hard to predict, except that some sudden
tasks happen a lot. So I thought I'd build a set of the links.
However, most of them are multiple keys pressed at once.

But I like your idea of a wireless presentation mouse with a 3-D
gesture space. The kids would love that! (It would have to be just for
the teacher!) The projectors rolling table is piled with stuff as it
is so a full size keyboard is hard to fit now. So when I really need
to type with the laptop on that table I open the screen and rotate it
around.

Your suggestion made me think of those small number-entry keypads used
by
auditors, etc, to augment a laptop's keyboard. Maybe that forem
factor. I was
really hoping for a screen-based panel that could be invoked like the
TIP.
Speaking of the TIP I have tried many ways to make the little floating
button show for a couple more seconds -- to be used to call the TIP
into
view. It's gone TOO fast. Toshiba shrugged their collective shoulders
on that
one.
The projector has a wireless port for laptop input but unfortunately
that hogs all the laptop wireless and I can't show any internat
material live. I am looking into web "collectors/aggregator software"
like Adobe Distiller/Catalog.

Anyway, I will look at the auto key tool.

Mahalo from the big island...

Jonathan Rawle

Aloha Jonathan jonathan7zerozero7(use numbers) at yahew dot usual
domain,

I'm sort of curious to hear how the pen is "dicey" for navigating
notebooks. I do it all the time on my Acer -- what issues are you
seeing there?

As for mimicking hotkeys in Tablet mode...what if you attached an
external USB or Bluetooth keyboard when you were in tablet mode and
used it just for activating hotkeys?

Or...would take more practice...if you were to attach a wireless
mouse and use something like AutoHotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com)
to create mouse gestures that would then activate the hotkey (or
desired result)?

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr - MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm
I use ON2007 on a tablet for moment-to-moment content presentation
and classroom management in elementary school. This post asks for
suggestions for using (or mimicking the benefit of) OneNote hotkeys
while in tablet configuration. I checked the Help files. Nada.

I do as much as possible on the computer, because managing paperwork
is my weakest skill in teaching. Fifth graders love writing on the
tablet, especially when it's connected to the projector! I love
hearing ANY suggestion for better use of OneNote for elementary
school.

Back to my question: Ok, so if I am in tablet mode how can I bounce
around my pages if I take the trouble to make a set of hot keys that
call certain pages immediately?

The pace of the day does not allow me to unhook the screen and
rotate it, etc. to get at the keyboard. Navigating the notebooks
takes a while and is dicey with the pen, unfortunately. The page I
want may be buried. Just entering the info wherever I am runs the
[high]risk that the paragraph will not get moved at the end of the
day to the page it should be on. Complicating this is the required
switch to 1024 x 768 for the projector which constricts what I can
see on the screen.

Jonathan Rawle

 

[Rainald Taesler]

The solution I use is the keyboard and "mouse" offered by Gyro. Two
versions, one works from up to 30 feet away, the other up to 100
feet. I love mine. Makes a big difference when working in a group
with my tablet. A feature of the Gyros that your kids will love is
that you can plug in two sets of mouse/keyboard controllers (they go
in a USB slot) and two people can control things at the same time.

Thanks a lot for the pointer, Kathy!
Seems to be what I have been after for quite some years.
I still remember that more than more then a dozen of years ago in a PC
magazine I detected a review of a similar "mouse in the air" device
called "Twiddler" and gave the article to a friend in order to look
for it in the US ...
Obviously the thing did not survive :-( :-(

I always hated the "dumb" one-slide-after-the-other PowerPoint
presentations and for my lectures for many long years had a vast usage
of hyperlinks. Main Problem: being tied to the place where the
computer stands because even with Logitech's Presenter one is not
"free" (flexible) enough.
Seems that Santa will have to care about getting me the new thing ;-)
;-)

Thanks again
Rainald

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Believe me - as one who almost never presents linearly - the gyromouse is a
lifesaver! You will love it.

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived