Archive for February, 2006

New Site Feature

Some of you might have noticed the “Whispers” section on the right had side. This is our version of “tips”. We will use it to post short little tips which increase productivity, get rid of headaches, or just make life a little easier.

OneNote 12 Beta Review Part 2: All New Features

Here are a list of all the features from OneNote 12 itself. OneNote 12 comes with a section called “New Features in OneNote 12″ that has the following information:
1) Multiple Notebooks: Use different notebooks to separate your various work and personal notes
2) Better Navigation and Organization: Use the Mini-bar or the navigation tree [...]

OneNote Tip – Shortcuts to Sections

OneNote 2003 has a dropdown navigation menu that I use frequently, but a comment on OneNotePowerToys.com got me thinking about quicker ways to get to a section…

Created shortcuts on my desktop for my more frequent .one files.
I added some of them to my Quick Launch toolbar as well.
Inside Franklin-Covey’s PlanPlus, I add a hyperlink to [...]

GoBinder 2006 Beta… Review Cancelled

I was starting a review of GoBinder 2006 Beta, since I like the tasks/calendar functions. It was going fairly well, besides being a memory hog and “jumpy” at times. Then I wrote three pages of important meeting minutes during a “Training/Overview” session with a vendor. The next morning I went to review it and it [...]

OneNote 12 Beta Review Part 1: Installation and First Run

I finally got around to installing OneNote 12 on my computer and here are my first impressions. OneNote 12 is not completely ready for prime time yet and crashes once in a while. The crashes should get resolved as the beta testing program moves forward.
Installation: Installation was very smooth but long. If [...]

Curio 3.0.1 (Mac Only)

I really wish I hadn’t sold my Mac recently, because this looks like a cool program…
Curio 3 by Zengobi and the features that I found interesting…

” Curio is the ultimate project-based brainstorming and document management application”
Idea Spaces looks similar to OneNote, but in the StoryBoard screenshot there is a windows pane with a table of [...]

Turn off Ink formatting in OneNote

How to Turn-Off Ink Formatting in OneNote:
Change the pen mode to drawings only (Tools-Pen Mode-Create Drawings Only). However, your Ink won’t be searchable.

Whispers test

Whispers Test:
Testing the aside feature

Alpha Testing of WordPress to OneNote

I’m not sure if the qualifies as a PowerToy, since it is more of a hack, but I’ll share my progress so far…
WordPress has a built-in feature to check an email account and automatically post it. The default wp-mail.php is not very feature rich. John Blade improved upon this with WP-Mail. Economy Sized Geek [...]

Using OneNote instead of Bookmarks

Bookmarks are fairly limiting for remembering why you wanted to save a site. Social bookmarking and tagging improves the concept, but sending to OneNote allows you to get snippets or the whole page and make additional notes. It can be accomplished using any of the Browser to OneNote PowerToys, but I’ll focus on Flock (since [...]