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Posted by bboyd
Jul 3, 2007 at 01:52 AM
Cassius wrote:
>3. How well/easily/accurately does it save Web pages?
I finally registered here, because I’ve been reading this forum for a while, and it has been very helpful in focusing in on a primary program to use. I pretty much ended up with OneNote, but more about that process some other time, perhaps.
One of my biggest concerns with OneNote is that it does NOT save web pages accurately. I also use Surfulator, and it’s much better for that specific purpose. (OneNote is so flexible in so many other ways that I decided to go with it.)
The problem with OneNote is that it saves web pages almost randomly, with a tendency to a vertical sequence: first you might see everything that’s on the left, then you see what’s in the middle, then you see what was on the right. I lived with it, but not without tweaking: I’d import that page, then spend a few minutes cleaning it up so that what showed in OneNote was the important stuff, that piece of the page that when I come back to it some time later, I’ll know why I saved it.
Then I finally clued in to another OneNote trick, that also works well in Firefox. (“Send to OneNote” only works in Explorer.) Now it’s what I use regularly: when I’m on a web page and want to save some part of it, I do “Windows + S”, which lightens the page and puts a special cursor on screen. Use the cursor to draw a box around the piece you want, then you can copy that piece over to OneNote. Unfortunately, you can’t scroll down with that box, and what it brings over is an image, not a live page with hot links, but at least it’s *exactly* what you saw on the web page. I then copy the URL over, which is a live link, and all of that is 90% of what I’ll usually need. It’s not always what I want (what Surfulator does with web pages is what I want…), but it works well enough, and fast enough, that it suits me. I haven’t been doing this long enough to test whether any of the imported material is indexed and searchable; I suspect not, which is a problem. Usually I make the title of the page specific enough to find it when I need it; one can always add key words too.
By the way, I was reluctant to abandon the tree structure, but this notebook metaphor works well. I especially like that I can put *anything* on the page *anywhere*. I’m not using OneNote for highly structured information, like Contacts, but it’s great for a vast number of items. I clip reviews, save receipts, make lists, collect articles, outline projects, post future ideas, and just throw in everything I have. If it goes more or less on the right page in the right notebook, I can find it without searching. (Which is great, because searching is also not a strong point of OneNote, or at least I haven’t mastered it.)
- bboyd
Posted by Graham Rhind
Jul 4, 2007 at 04:27 PM
bboyd wrote:
>I haven’t been doing this long enough to test
>whether any of the imported material is indexed and searchable; I suspect not, which
>is a problem.
In OneNote you need to right click on the image and choose “Make Text in Image Searchable”. It only works at the moment for US English, French and Spanish. When the image is clear, such as a screen capture from a website, it indexes without problem. The search in OneNote is the native Window’s search and, to my taste, is rather slow.
Graham
Posted by Cristina Ramos
Jul 4, 2007 at 05:24 PM
bboyd wrote:
>when I’m on a web page and want to save some part of it, I do “Windows + S”, which lightens
>the page and puts a special cursor on screen. Use the cursor to draw a box around the
>piece you want, then you can copy that piece over to OneNote. Unfortunately, you can’t
>scroll down with that box, and what it brings over is an image, not a live page with hot
>links, but at least it’s *exactly* what you saw on the web page. I then copy the URL over,
Instead of creating a screen clipping, which is very useful but only for small areas, you may select what you want to copy (and in this case you can scroll down) and apply the usual Copy and Paste. OneNote automatically adds the link to the page from where you copied.
Cristina in Lisboa, Portugal
Posted by Cassius
Jul 6, 2007 at 07:33 AM
I want to thank all of you who responded to my questions about OneNote. The information you provided was sufficient for me to decide that ON is not for me. You saved me many hours of testing ON. For this I am most grateful. My sincerest THANK-YOU to each of you.
-c
Posted by Cristina Ramos
Jul 26, 2007 at 07:47 PM
Cristina Ramos wrote:
>Instead of creating a screen clipping, which is
>very useful but only for small areas, you may select what you want to copy (and in this
>case you can scroll down) and apply the usual Copy and Paste. OneNote automatically
>adds the link to the page from where you copied.
Another feature I love in OneNote is its printer. You can print from every programme (including web browsers) to OneNote.
For example, you can send a pdf file to OneNote and then annotate it to your heart’s content. I do like this programme. :)
Cristina in Lisboa, Portugal