J
J Wilcoxson
OneNote has huge potential to be "workplace central" for students and
scholars, as well as other knowledge workers who follow similar processes. It
just needs to build on its existing structure, giving a few more options as
well as connecting seemlessly with other office applications.
A couple examples:
1) Items on a page need to be able to be grouped together to form "notes" or
"cards" or "blocks" or whatever. One use: when researching and brainstorming,
small pieces of information could be kept, as with notecards, but pictures or
diagrams could be added as well.
These could then be arranged (possibly with an interface not unlike the
Canvas concept floating around a little while ago
http://www.officelabs.com/projects/canvasforonenote/Pages/default.aspx) and
rearranged, fitting pieces of research together in meaningful,
spatially-organized ways, and ultimately creating a "storyboard" for
paper-writing, etc.
2) Rapid automatic generation of pages or subpages would help remarkably.
For instance, if OneNote could "talk" to Access or Excel, a page (or the
aforementioned "notecard") could be designed based on a customized template,
and the fields could autopoulate from the spreadsheet or database.
This would be particularly useful in research. Since many scholars already
keep databases of books, articles, etc., one could make a OneNote notebook of
this information: a virtual card catalog that could be linked to notes in
other notebooks and to each other.
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scholars, as well as other knowledge workers who follow similar processes. It
just needs to build on its existing structure, giving a few more options as
well as connecting seemlessly with other office applications.
A couple examples:
1) Items on a page need to be able to be grouped together to form "notes" or
"cards" or "blocks" or whatever. One use: when researching and brainstorming,
small pieces of information could be kept, as with notecards, but pictures or
diagrams could be added as well.
These could then be arranged (possibly with an interface not unlike the
Canvas concept floating around a little while ago
http://www.officelabs.com/projects/canvasforonenote/Pages/default.aspx) and
rearranged, fitting pieces of research together in meaningful,
spatially-organized ways, and ultimately creating a "storyboard" for
paper-writing, etc.
2) Rapid automatic generation of pages or subpages would help remarkably.
For instance, if OneNote could "talk" to Access or Excel, a page (or the
aforementioned "notecard") could be designed based on a customized template,
and the fields could autopoulate from the spreadsheet or database.
This would be particularly useful in research. Since many scholars already
keep databases of books, articles, etc., one could make a OneNote notebook of
this information: a virtual card catalog that could be linked to notes in
other notebooks and to each other.
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This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...aace-55bee617f7b8&dg=microsoft.public.onenote