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Jonathan
All,
I need help with a decision between OneNote and another program, InfoSelect.
I use InfoSelect as my minute-to-minute hub. This program, from
www.miclog.com is outline-focused and has lightning search included. The
outline structure helps but its super-quick full-index searches means that
you don't ever have trouble finding anything if you remember *any* of the
text in the page you seek.
InfoSelect can cull whole pages from the web with a single click. It offers
instant grids, quick databases, and forms within the program. It can do
simple word processing and merge. You can link between pages. It has easy
templatization. A programming Swiss Army knife.
OneNote has always been very appealing to me, too, and I do own the program.
I try it from time to time, especially in meetings. I wish I typed faster! I
don't have a tablet pc, but plan to get one soon.
I have been looking at the information about ON2007 and wonder whether I
should switch. Ink works OK for InfoSelect with Tablet OS support, but not as
fully integrated as ink use in OneNote. I figure that templates work in a
similar way between the two programs except that a recent post amazed me with
the complaint that there was not a truly "default" page template for OneNote.
Another OneNote endorsement is the experience of a 3rd-4th grade teacher
who, it was reported to me, switched from experienced and expert use of
InfoSelect to similar use of OneNote for her classroom "hub" and she is very
happy with the OneNote capabilities. However, she may be more organized than
I am. (Actually, *everyone* is more organized than I am.)
So I thought I'd put out a couple of questions:
1. Is OneNote quick to find text within its own pages?
2. Does a product like X1 "see" the text in OneNote pages and therefore
report them out after X-1 indexed searches? I assume Google Desktop does not
see inside "*.one" files. I would consider buying X1 to have this capability.
3. What strategies do you all use for sharing work you do in OneNote when
you are the only one with a copy of the program?
4. I am a teacher (elementary) so my day runs very fast. I like the idea of
storing an entire year's curriculum in one of these programs. Is OneNote sill
fast when it hold LOTS of pages and pdf's, etc.
5. I assume it can "hold" a pdf? This is important because many of the
pieces of a curriculum will have to be brought to OneNote as pdf's.
6. If I build a template that has a space for a photo, can I drag a photo in
jpeg format into that picture box and have it stay that designated size on
the page? The same for other art: diagrams, PDFs, clipart GIFs, vector fomats?
7. Are there good printing controls? Schools still run on paper.
8. Last question: is it important to have a lot of screen real estate to use
OneNote and a tablet well? I ask because the IBMs still offer only 1024x768
(I think I have the numbers right) rather than the next standard above that,
Seems limiting especially with inking dialogs (TIP, right?) etc.
No OLE, only 25 flags, and a few of the comments here make me wonder how
seamless it will truly be sharing the work I do in OneNote with others who
use standard Office apps. InfoSelect has e-mail inside it but I have decided
to use Outlook from now on no matter which way I go. However it means you can
send out content really easily.
I realize that, probably, few of you know InfoSelect. Perhaps some of the
issues noted throughout this forum will be cleared up by the arrival of
ON2007. (But I know there's still no OLE in 2007.)
Please reply with thoughts about OneNote's ability to handle a lot of
content, multiple file types, and a rapid-fire elementary classroom. Think 24
meetings going on at once!
Finally, thanks, everyone, for bearing with such a long post.
Jonathan
I need help with a decision between OneNote and another program, InfoSelect.
I use InfoSelect as my minute-to-minute hub. This program, from
www.miclog.com is outline-focused and has lightning search included. The
outline structure helps but its super-quick full-index searches means that
you don't ever have trouble finding anything if you remember *any* of the
text in the page you seek.
InfoSelect can cull whole pages from the web with a single click. It offers
instant grids, quick databases, and forms within the program. It can do
simple word processing and merge. You can link between pages. It has easy
templatization. A programming Swiss Army knife.
OneNote has always been very appealing to me, too, and I do own the program.
I try it from time to time, especially in meetings. I wish I typed faster! I
don't have a tablet pc, but plan to get one soon.
I have been looking at the information about ON2007 and wonder whether I
should switch. Ink works OK for InfoSelect with Tablet OS support, but not as
fully integrated as ink use in OneNote. I figure that templates work in a
similar way between the two programs except that a recent post amazed me with
the complaint that there was not a truly "default" page template for OneNote.
Another OneNote endorsement is the experience of a 3rd-4th grade teacher
who, it was reported to me, switched from experienced and expert use of
InfoSelect to similar use of OneNote for her classroom "hub" and she is very
happy with the OneNote capabilities. However, she may be more organized than
I am. (Actually, *everyone* is more organized than I am.)
So I thought I'd put out a couple of questions:
1. Is OneNote quick to find text within its own pages?
2. Does a product like X1 "see" the text in OneNote pages and therefore
report them out after X-1 indexed searches? I assume Google Desktop does not
see inside "*.one" files. I would consider buying X1 to have this capability.
3. What strategies do you all use for sharing work you do in OneNote when
you are the only one with a copy of the program?
4. I am a teacher (elementary) so my day runs very fast. I like the idea of
storing an entire year's curriculum in one of these programs. Is OneNote sill
fast when it hold LOTS of pages and pdf's, etc.
5. I assume it can "hold" a pdf? This is important because many of the
pieces of a curriculum will have to be brought to OneNote as pdf's.
6. If I build a template that has a space for a photo, can I drag a photo in
jpeg format into that picture box and have it stay that designated size on
the page? The same for other art: diagrams, PDFs, clipart GIFs, vector fomats?
7. Are there good printing controls? Schools still run on paper.
8. Last question: is it important to have a lot of screen real estate to use
OneNote and a tablet well? I ask because the IBMs still offer only 1024x768
(I think I have the numbers right) rather than the next standard above that,
Seems limiting especially with inking dialogs (TIP, right?) etc.
No OLE, only 25 flags, and a few of the comments here make me wonder how
seamless it will truly be sharing the work I do in OneNote with others who
use standard Office apps. InfoSelect has e-mail inside it but I have decided
to use Outlook from now on no matter which way I go. However it means you can
send out content really easily.
I realize that, probably, few of you know InfoSelect. Perhaps some of the
issues noted throughout this forum will be cleared up by the arrival of
ON2007. (But I know there's still no OLE in 2007.)
Please reply with thoughts about OneNote's ability to handle a lot of
content, multiple file types, and a rapid-fire elementary classroom. Think 24
meetings going on at once!
Finally, thanks, everyone, for bearing with such a long post.
Jonathan