Mobile One Note

[Heidi H]

Last question I promise.

From what I have been reading you can sync your PPC with the PC....

What the PPC is used for is just take notes and other information to sync
withthe notebook in the PC.

There is no way the full notebook information can be put on it.

Are these statements true?

Thanks again for the help.
Heidi

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

If you have a supported WM device, you can sync a single dedicated
section file from the full version of ON2007 to the WM device. Pages in
that section and content in those pages can be created and edited on
either copy and will be synchronized to the other copy.

You cannot sync your entire set of all Notebooks from ON2007 to the WM
device.

 

[Sven]

Another thing to be pointed out is that OneNote Mobile is designed for WM
Smartphones, not Pocket PCs. It will run and sync on a PPC but it does not
support ink, so you cannot write (scribble) on the PPC screen. You can
pop-up a keyboard and enter text that way. Adding voice clips and photos is
well supported though, which would be the predominant ways of adding to a
page on a Smartphone, I would guess.

 

[Jonathan]

Last question I promise.

Heidi -- Questions are the best resource here! Please return and ask again;
other people new to the possibilities learn from other's questions.

I am working on making my Dell Axim into a useful conduit for OneNote info.
Sven implies that WM5 pdas that are not smartphones are less useful, but so
far that does not seem to be the case from my limited experience. I have a
Dell Axim, a non-phone WindowsMobile 5 pda, that can record with the push of
a side button so I expect that I will grab and explore ideas this way. I
also am considering a approx $85 folding bluetooth keyboard to allow
out-of-office work sessions without the laptop I use as the core of it all.
Tapping letters is annoying. I do have a lot of experience using a Palm for
these needs, which I liked.

I would not have considered on-screen writing to be very efficient input for
the little screen. I have a tablet laptop so I can see why people want it,
though.

The former head of the OneNote group at Microsoft wrote about their goals
and chosen trade-offs for the Windows Mobile version and if you feel it will
help you understand how to use this OneNote2007 extension, you can skim it
here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/archive/2005/11/21/out-and-about-with-onenote-mobile.aspx

The rest of his blog helped me see uses of the program because he often
spoke of his own use of the OneNote tool for day-to-day business support.

I'm a teacher (elementary) and always ask for other's suggestions. I am
still figuring out how to have the program (and the hardware) accessible
enough to get the info INTO OneNote at the speed of the classroom. That's one
of the reasons for trying the Axim pda as a more flexible input device.

Jonathan Rawle

 

[Thurman]

Another thing to be pointed out is that OneNote Mobile is designed for WM
Smartphones, not Pocket PCs. It will run and sync on a PPC but it does not
support ink, so you cannot write (scribble) on the PPC screen. You can
pop-up a keyboard and enter text that way. Adding voice clips and photos
is well supported though, which would be the predominant ways of adding to
a page on a Smartphone, I would guess.

Are you inferring it disables Transcriber?

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Aloha Thurman,

Are you inferring it disables Transcriber?

Transcriber works fine, but it inputs the text as typewritten text, not digital
ink. I think that's what Sven meant -- no inking in your notes.


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

 

[Heidi H]

Thank you!

I had back surgery 2 weeks ago today and have nothing to do but play around
on my computer. I never opened ON 2007 before yesterday and I'm finding
great uses of it but not sure if I'm going to be able to get the information
to my iPAQ.

I sew, so what I'm doing is make a table of contents first page and then
linking the pattern number to a page. On the page it has the description of
the pattern, picture of the pattern and the fabric/notions requirement. If I
can get all of this transfered, somehow, over to the PPC it would be a HUGE
help when ever I'm out shopping for fabric. So, as you can see, I'm very
much a newbie on this.

Thanks,
Heidi

 

[Sven]

Yea, it recognizes transcriber now. The original betas didn't even do that.
Would be nice to be able to use ink on a platform that really supports it.

 

[Sven]

Jonathan,
Which keyboard are you contemplating? Dell sold their branded version of a 4
row ThinkOutside keyboard that is very compact, but annoying in that it has
no number row. Q, 1 and ! are all on the same key, and you use left function
and right function depending on whether you want 1 or !. TO has a newer
one with the full set of keys, but it is quit large. Makes your X51 look
svelte.

BTW, you seem to have put One-Note mobile to much more use than I. I played
with it mostly during beta time. Appreciate your keeping me straight on what
the current version can do.

 

[Jonathan]

Jonathan,
Which keyboard are you contemplating? Dell sold their branded version of a 4
row ThinkOutside keyboard that is very compact, but annoying in that it has
no number row.

Sven, There is a new 5-row unit out using BT.
See:
http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2006/09/thinkoutside_si.html#more

About the size of a paperback book.

I had the one you refer to for my Palm. It was better than my first one, the
Landware model. I think the new one just out will be good.

I hope there will be more OneNote->mobile->OneNote discussion on this forum.

Helen, good idea for mobile use of OneNote, especially if you take pix of
material while out researching your project.

Jonathan Rawle.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Sven shared these words of wisdom:

BTW, you seem to have put One-Note mobile to much more use than I.
I played with it mostly during beta time. Appreciate your keeping
me straight on what the current version can do.

I only played with it for a couple of days (as I got my WM5 PDA only a
few days ago).
But I find the combination of ON Mobile and ON on the PC far better
than using Notes on the PDA and have them synched into Outlook.

Images as well as sound recordings come over to the PC pretty fine.
And it's easy enough to save a recording as a separate file from ON on
the PC (soemthing that does not work with Outlook and requires to
manually copy recordings WAV-file [which do not get synched as files]
from the PocketPC).

So it seems that I will stick with ON instead of Notes.

Rainald
P.S. It's a real pity that Hyperlinks pointing to other pages in ON
don
not work in ON Mobile [siiiiigh]

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Heidi H shared these words of wisdom:

I sew, so what I'm doing is make a table of contents first page and
then linking the pattern number to a page. On the page it has the
description of the pattern, picture of the pattern and the
fabric/notions requirement. If I can get all of this transfered,
somehow, over to the PPC it would be a HUGE help when ever I'm out
shopping for fabric.

Unfortunately this does not work.
As to my experience Hypeelinks to other pages in ON are synched over
to ON Mobile, but they are not functional (clicking produces an error
message).

So, as you can see, I'm very much a newbie on
this.

No problem.
Use ON and you'll soon be most productive with it.

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Heidi H shared these words of wisdom:

...I can't seem to figure out how to
get the information over to the mobile unit. I guess I'll be
reading a bunch to figure this out.

Pages in the Notebook "One Note Mobile" and its section <mobile
device> are synched fine (incl. pictures and sound recordings).
The notebokk as well as the section are created automatically when
installing ON Mobile.

What is not functional, however, are hyperlink to other ON pages
(hyperlinks to external sources work fine).

I guess my back up plan would
be to do it Word/Excel and send it over.

Don't go this way.
Both Word and Excel are not too easy to use on a mobile device.
It's far easier and more comfortable with ON.
And some important features like emebdding pictures (f.e. from a
camera in the PDA/phone) and sound recordings.

Rainald

 

[Sven]

Heidi, what are you using to sync other stuff like word, excel, contacts,
etc. Are you on ActiveSync something or on Vista and Windows Mobile Device
Center. If in AS take a look in Tools options and see if there is a
OneNote Notes item listed and see if it is checked. I am not sure, but you
may need the latest version of AS which is 4.5 Beta. It has been very stable
for me. I have heard of some problems with Office 2007 apps with earlier
versions of AS. More with Outlook 2007, but that is more frequently used.

 

[Sven]

I have that one. It is quite solid, but I think the pictures with both
unfolded tell a pretty good story (I have the other one too, and don't
really like it). I agree with the whole review, and can confirm the
fingerprint magnet feature, doubling as a mirror.

You'll like it.