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Posted by Derek Cornish
Nov 11, 2006 at 01:07 AM
Wes -
Thanks for the Stickies Store tip. I’ll take a look.
On the OneNote beta: it looks as though they have taken it off now. Only the on-line test drive is available, so I’ll wait until they issue evaluation copies in the New Year. Incidentally, the test drive did not seem to include outlining within notes, unless I missed something. Maybe it only uses simple do-it-yourself indentations.
Derek
Posted by Derek Cornish
Nov 11, 2006 at 01:21 AM
Mark -
Thanks for the information about Slickrun. It looks as though it might be very useful as part of my desktop-clearing exercise. I’m about to try out PowerPro for the same purpose - reducing icons and speeding up opening programs. The note feature is a bonus.
Derek
Posted by Derek Cornish
Nov 11, 2006 at 01:57 AM
Ike -
the memoboards do look as though they solve one of the problems of post-it notes programs (Wes mentioned Stickies Store as another solution).
When I looked at post-it notes programs, the one I most liked was ATNotes (http://atnotes.free.fr/) - especially as it was free. Unfortunately, it was discontinued last year. Individual notes can be hidden (and have alarms attached to them) and I seem to recall that they could be stored in different folders. I’m not quite sure why stopped using it. I think it was largely lack of self-discipline :-). Or maybe my need at the time was only for a single note window for quick jottings.
I must say this thread has got me thinking again about the issue of random spur-of-the-moment note-taking. When one is writing something, lots of other ideas tend to spill out and the need is really for a means of breaking off to record them and of resuming as quickly as possible. (Well, it is for me, anyway. Entertaining more than one tentative train of thought at a time without losing focus is a high-risk enterprise. It’s rather like trying to recall the details of a dream immediately after waking up.) This is why speed and simplcity are so important. Pencil and paper are often the least distracting if one has them to hand. Sometimes I even write the note in whatever program I am working in (if working in an editor, that is) and cut-and-paste it elsewhere later.
Derek
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Posted by Wes Perdue
Nov 11, 2006 at 02:03 AM
Derek Cornish wrote:
>Wes -
>
>Thanks for the Stickies Store tip. I’ll take a look.
>
>On the OneNote beta: it
>looks as though they have taken it off now. Only the on-line test drive is available, so
>I’ll wait until they issue evaluation copies in the New Year. Incidentally, the test
>drive did not seem to include outlining within notes, unless I missed something.
>Maybe it only uses simple do-it-yourself indentations.
>
>Derek
Yes, I searched the OneNote 2007’s help, and it seems tab indentations are the way to define an outline. The word “outline” doesn’t occur in the demo notebook, which is a getting-started guide.
If you place a tab-indented line below another less-indented line, when you hover above the parent line a plus appears to the left. Double-click the plus, and the child node(s) collapse.
There’s an outline toolbar in the View -> Toolbars pull-down menu. This includes the following buttons:
Decrease indent
Increase indent
Make body text
Show body text
Hide body text
Expand drop-down, with the options: levels 2, 3, 4, 5, and all
Collapse drop-down, with the options: levels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and all
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Wes
Posted by Graham Smith
Nov 11, 2006 at 08:09 AM
Ike
>For my GTD notes, the kind of information I want to have around with me all of the time, I
>use Quick Notes Plus:
>http://www.conceptworld.com/qnp/default.asp -
>$20.
A very valuable feature of QNP, is that it will also sync with Outlook Memos, thus giving a route into Zoot and into non-palm PDAs, for example Phat Notes, which runs on the Palm and Windows Mobile, will sync with Outlook Memos.
Or so I have just read - I’ve not actually tried it.
Graham