'Sticky' side notes

[Jez]

Hi,

I can't find any discussion of issue: I hope I'm not going over well
worn ground. Side notes appear not to be 'sticky' - they can be kept
on screen, but is seems they can't be associated with particular (read
only) items. It would be good if I could create a side note while
reading, say, a pdf, and then have that note appear automatically when
I view the same page in that pdf a week later. That would be much more
like using post-it notes in the real world, after all. (Of course I
want to have my cake and eat it, and being able to see notes all in
one place and search through them is great in its own way.)

Am I right in thinking this can't be done? Are there plans to put this
into a future version.

It may be possible to put links to side notes into documents which are
not write-protected (and vice versa), but you can't tell they're in
there without opening the document. Again, in the real world you can
see post-it notes sticking out of closed books, and even read labels
on the exposed edge of the notes.

Maybe there's some other app that does this?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

Jez

 

[Erik Sojka]

SideNotes are intended to be a temporary "scratch pad", kept open while
doing some other task. For example, you might read a web page and write
notes on the SideNote window, then later transcribe them into another
application or put those notes in a permanent place in your ON hierarchy.

The integration you're talking about would probably require some kind of
ON-aware API to exist in the other application, which can send bookmark
info to ON (similar to the audio/video notes feature in ON). This does
not exist now, but the addition of a full API in ON in a future version
may help in this. Feel free to send this feature request to Microsoft by
either sending an email to (e-mail address removed) or by using the
Communities section of the Microsoft Support web site.

You didn't mention if you're using a Tablet PC or a conventional
computer, but there are a lot of applications that are "Ink aware" and
have their own annotation utilities. If you're reading an Office
document or an MS Reader book, you can insert notes and annotations in
there. It doesn't offer the "one stop shopping" search capability of
having all of your notes in ON, but if the more important feature is to
be able to take bookmarked notes, then this may be a solution.

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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

OneNote doesn't support that degree of integration. Have you looked at 3M's
post it notes?

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[Jez]

Thanks Diane, the 3M software looks like just what I'm thinking of
(and it's also cheap). It also looks as though it would work perfectly
well alongside ON as an improvement on side notes.

Cheers,

Jez

OneNote doesn't support that degree of integration. Have you looked at 3M's
post it notes?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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Hi,

I can't find any discussion of issue: I hope I'm not going over well
worn ground. Side notes appear not to be 'sticky' - they can be kept
on screen, but is seems they can't be associated with particular (read
only) items. It would be good if I could create a side note while
reading, say, a pdf, and then have that note appear automatically when
I view the same page in that pdf a week later. That would be much more
like using post-it notes in the real world, after all. (Of course I
want to have my cake and eat it, and being able to see notes all in
one place and search through them is great in its own way.)

Am I right in thinking this can't be done? Are there plans to put this
into a future version.

It may be possible to put links to side notes into documents which are
not write-protected (and vice versa), but you can't tell they're in
there without opening the document. Again, in the real world you can
see post-it notes sticking out of closed books, and even read labels
on the exposed edge of the notes.

Maybe there's some other app that does this?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

Jez

 

[Jez]

Thanks Erik - Diane's suggestion of 3M's Postit Notes seems to be what
I'm thinking of, although I do like the idea of a 'one stop shop', as
you put it. I'm using a conventional lap top, by the way.

Cheers,

Jez

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

I use both it and OneNote - 3M for short notes or things I want on my
desktop (passwords ) and OneNote for long notes.

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Thanks Diane, the 3M software looks like just what I'm thinking of
(and it's also cheap). It also looks as though it would work perfectly
well alongside ON as an improvement on side notes.

Cheers,

Jez

OneNote doesn't support that degree of integration. Have you looked at
3M's
post it notes?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/

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Hi,

I can't find any discussion of issue: I hope I'm not going over well
worn ground. Side notes appear not to be 'sticky' - they can be kept
on screen, but is seems they can't be associated with particular (read
only) items. It would be good if I could create a side note while
reading, say, a pdf, and then have that note appear automatically when
I view the same page in that pdf a week later. That would be much more
like using post-it notes in the real world, after all. (Of course I
want to have my cake and eat it, and being able to see notes all in
one place and search through them is great in its own way.)

Am I right in thinking this can't be done? Are there plans to put this
into a future version.

It may be possible to put links to side notes into documents which are
not write-protected (and vice versa), but you can't tell they're in
there without opening the document. Again, in the real world you can
see post-it notes sticking out of closed books, and even read labels
on the exposed edge of the notes.

Maybe there's some other app that does this?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

Jez