Ultrarecall export to OneNote??

Posted by dan7000
Sep 30, 2007 at 01:55 AM

Hi Jan,

Well, I really need a consistent way to store formatted docs and web pages AND notes AND link it all together. And I want to be able to create topics and notes of any length, without worrying about using the mouse or having to create new topics like in Ultrarecall.
I prefer a heirarchical outline like ADM, but with unlimited text in the topic titles unlike Ultrarecall.

OneNote is not set up hierarchically, but it can easily create links between topics, and I can easily create a table of contents with lots of links. I basically use it like a wiki - but unlike most wikis there’s not an “edit” and “preview” mode - it’s always wysiwyg. A create lots of links between everything, and table of contents pages using the outline feature.

And that’s what really sold me - they actually have a usable outliner in OneNote 2007. You create an outline in one page of text, just like in Word. BUT the outline topics are collapsable (“foldable” was used here recently) AND unlike in old versions of Word, you can drag outline topics easily (with their children) to some other place in the outline. The outline keeps its formatting, unlike ADM, and can contain hyperlinks to onenote pages, web addresses or files. So in that way, it’s superior to any outliner I’ve used.

personally, I’d still prefer ADM, but I’m getting used to OneNote and I may end up liking it even better.

Here’s how I converted ADM to OneNote if you’re interested:
1. export adm outline to “HTML with CSS”.
2. Edit the html file - change the STYLE headings so that each level is indented at least 40 pixels more than the last. For instance, copy the following over the paragraph stiles .rvps2 through .rvps7:
———————————————————————
.rvps2
{ margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
} .rvps3
{ margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px;
} .rvps4
{ margin: 0px 0px 0px 80px;
} .rvps5
{ margin: 0px 0px 0px 120px;
} .rvps6
{ margin: 0px 0px 0px 160px;
} .rvps7
{ margin: 0px 0px 0px 200px;
}———————————————————————————

3. Now open the html file in word. Select all, copy, and paste into OneNote.
4. In OneNote, turn on the “outlining” toolbar.
5. On the outlining toolbar, select “collapse” to level 4. Then to level 3. Then to level 2.
6. Finally, collapse all.

I do step 5 because OneNote remembers whether the children of a topic were previously collapsed or not. So if you just collapse all to level 1 initially, the next time you open up a topic, it will expand all - because that topic was previously expanded to all. I’d rather have all my topics open just to the next level when I expand them. (hope that’s clear enough).