My OneNote Wish List

R

Russkin

I love OneNote and use it constantly. Here's my wish list, so far, on
features I'd like to see added to it:

- A simple way to add a link to a file in the file system or a page in a Web
site (maybe I'm actually talking about a shortcut). The link would display
the file name and an icon representing the file type. I could then add notes
around or in the link element. I would rather, for example, link to a
nicely-formatted Word or PDF file than import either into OneNote. Another
option would be to actually be able to add a page (tabbed on the right with
regular OneNote pages) for the non-OneNote document. In my examples, under a
page tab in OneNote, Word, Acrobat, or IE could be called from within
OneNote to display their respective documents in native format, but within
the information- and knowledge-management framework of OneNote.

- A select tool (I posted this separately earlier). As in a drawing
program, you can choose this tool, cirle the elements that you want to
handle, and then move them (or cut, or copy) as a unit.

- A grouping tool. Often, paragraphs that I write get broken down by
OneNote as separate elements. I would like to be able to select them and
combine or group them.

- Some right-click options in the OneNote folder drop-down. I keep trying
to do this, expecting that I can create a new folder or perform some other
task in this view.

- The ability to float a toolbar under the page tabs on the right side. In
most folders, I only have a few documents, so this is unused space. Putting
it on the right or left waste a lot of valuable OneNote writing space.
 
R

Russkin

I should clarify wish #1 below. I know that I can drag a document from the
file system into OneNote and make a link to it. The problem is that the link
is just a mess of "file:///etc/etc/etc/". I would prefer to have a file type
icon and the file name.

When I save a file into a OneNote file system folder (under My Notebook or
whatever), I would like OneNote to automatically create the link inside
OneNote that I describe above. Maybe the tab could just be called "Related
Files" or something and be a somewhat different kind of OneNote page.

For Web pages, maybe OneNote can add an option to IE's Favorites menu to add
the favorite to a OneNote folder. This could create a page that contains the
URL, page title and date, or, even better, OneNote could create a "Related
Web Pages" page in each folder and it could be added there.
 

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