Make sticky notes

[Trappermark]

I love OneNotes. The only feature I would love to see added right now would
be the ability to make note containters "sticky" i.e. to be able to attach
them to a certain piece of text so that they move with it.

When taking notes in class, I often put extra material or diagrams in the
margin alongside the relevant text. But if I edit my outline later, that
extra material does not move if the original text gets moved up or down the
page

 

[Andrew Watt [MVP - InfoPath]]

I love OneNotes. The only feature I would love to see added right now would
be the ability to make note containters "sticky" i.e. to be able to attach
them to a certain piece of text so that they move with it.

When taking notes in class, I often put extra material or diagrams in the
margin alongside the relevant text. But if I edit my outline later, that
extra material does not move if the original text gets moved up or down the
page

Hi,

You can do this manually at the moment.

See http://www.tfosorcim.org/archives/000245.html

I suspect it is only a partial solution to the particular use case
that you are describing. However, if you make a separate note
container for graphics related to text (or text which has diagrams)
the technique should let you move them together.

I hope that helps.

Andrew Watt
MVP - InfoPath

 

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Thanks, Andrew. I already knew how to group notes, but that doesn't meet my
particular need. I'm not needing to physically move two note containers
together on the page.

What I have is one long continuous note container with my outline of notes.
I'm a seminary student, so occassionally I'll want to copy and paste the
Greek or Hebrew of a verse mentioned in my notes into a note container in the
margin. The problem comes if I make subsequent changes in the outline above
the marginal reference. These changes can cause the outline text below to
either move farther down or farther up the page, leaving the marginal note
behind.

What I (and many of my classmates who use OneNotes) would like to see is the
ability to attach a note to a paragraph of text (as you can do with a drawing
in Word) so that the attached note stays with that text wherever it goes. An
alternative would be to be able to hyperlink a popup note window to a piece
of text.

Mark

 

[Andrew Watt [MVP - InfoPath]]

Mark,

This may not scale properly for your use case, but subpages is one
workaround, I think. But you may well want all your text on a single
page.

If so, there is another approach which might be worth trying. I
haven't quite mastered it but it does seem to work.

I assume you have text on the left of the screen and
diagrams/Hebrew/Greek as images on the right.

Add text as needed inside the note container "between" two diagrams
(just do a couple of pieces of text with associated diagrams till you
get the hang of this).

Then in the images "column" right click over an image (I think
anywhere in that "column" works) and select Extra Writing Space. Move
the mouse to a position above what you want to move down, then drag an
appropriate distance. This seems to move ALL images down by the same
amount.

It works ... but it's hard to describe. If you start dragging at the
right position and drag by the right amount it all pretty much lines
up the text and diagrams again.

Try it and hopefully you will see what I mean ... that it works ...
and that it's hard to describe.

If you get it working please report back. I don't recall seeing this
documented anywhere.

In the long term something that associates a "bookmark" (say) in the
text with a diagram could be really handy.

Andrew Watt
MVP - InfoPath

 

[Trappermark]

Andrew:

Thanks, that works as a "fix" but I would like to see MS include a sticky or
bookmark feature.

Mark