Recommendation for tablet

Posted by TonyJ
Dec 26, 2007 at 07:45 PM

My tablet came with OneNote, so far it looks like a good piece of software. Do I need a combination of programs to do it all, or is OneNote sufficient? Here’s what I’d like to be able to do:

1 - Annotate ebooks, preferably in ink. Mostly .pdf or .djvu. Perhaps other formats in the future. Link from a given paragraph of one document to a selected paragraph of another. I think OneNote can handle this.

2 - Store all my email. My email is on an IMAP server. An offline backup where I can link emails to a list of contacts and tasks (and link them back to the emails) is ideal. ON - not as far as I can tell.

3 - As implied in 2, keep a master list of contacts, and manage my projects and to-do lists with a calendar. A good fit with GTD would be ideal but it isn’t necessary. ON - ?

4 - Accurately save web pages. Saving the entire site isn’t necessary but Web Research’s feature of allowing the user to save some of the pages linked to is very nice. An editor where I can cut chunks out of the webpage and eliminate animations, banners and ads would be a strong feature. Ability to export as an html or mht file is a plus. ON can import them as a screen capture but my preference is for the links to work. Linking to a specific section in the web page from an external document is another plus. ON - ?

5 - General note taking. ON does this very well.

6 - The more easily I can use ink, the better.

Linking documents and annotating in ink are the two big wants, but none of this is written in stone. All the linking between different types of documents (email, .pdf, .doc, .jpg, etc.) suggests one database to hold the whole thing. UltraRecall and InfoSelect are getting my attention. Web Research also has some strong features but I don’t know if it can handle a big database and I expect some of these OneNote files holding printed text books, will be rather large. What about SQL Notes? I hear that scrapbook is a free way to save webpages. Are they saved as html? If I used scrapbook is there a good, maybe even free, database for organizing and annotating them, which I can then link to the ON pages?

OK, that’s a lot of questions. Thank you for your thoughts.