Just discovered this is now part of Office.

Anyone here use it?

Is it any good? (seemed pretty clunky, at first sight)

• Is it any good? (seemed pretty clunky, at first sight)

Upon reading your post I just opened it for the very first time and I am not sure what it does. Looks like where you can collect things together but I don’t know how it is better than putting things into well organised folders. But maybe it is more than that? I don’t know…

I’ve used it a bit for collating notes, video files and audio… it’s bit like a clipboard where you can collate a myriad of different resources…

I think if you used it religiously you’d get the value, but I found it a bit too much effort.

There are a whole heap of other similar 3rd party products and I kinda like Evernote because of its mobile device interface…

Just for context… I was trialing it as an electronic diary – for timekeeping purposes etc..

It’s great if you have touchscreen with pen input, otherwise it’s a bit meh.

Sounds like the sort of thing I’d do in a spreadsheet.

I actually used it today for converting notes on a scanned pdf image into text. It did that OK, once I’d worked out where they’d hidden the required menus.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Sounds like the sort of thing I’d do in a spreadsheet.

I actually used it today for converting notes on a scanned pdf image into text. It did that OK, once I’d worked out where they’d hidden the required menus.

OCR built in to One Note, Rev?

Peak Warming Man said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Sounds like the sort of thing I’d do in a spreadsheet.

I actually used it today for converting notes on a scanned pdf image into text. It did that OK, once I’d worked out where they’d hidden the required menus.

OCR built in to One Note, Rev?

Yes, apparently it used to be in Word, so they moved it to One-note to make things more difficult.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Peak Warming Man said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Sounds like the sort of thing I’d do in a spreadsheet.

I actually used it today for converting notes on a scanned pdf image into text. It did that OK, once I’d worked out where they’d hidden the required menus.

OCR built in to One Note, Rev?

Yes, apparently it used to be in Word, so they moved it to One-note to make things more difficult.

Well it mustn’t have been very good because that is the first I’ve heard of it, could of saved me a shed load of typing over the years.

poikilotherm said:

It’s great if you have touchscreen with pen input, otherwise it’s a bit meh.

+1

I use it to keep notes from one event together.. like when organising a festival or party.. you can have separate files and keep them all in one section… it took a while to get used to but you can make check lists and cost lists etc. I find it useful for that stuff, but yes, it’s not something that can’t be done in excel

The Rev Dodgson said:

Just discovered this is now part of Office.

Anyone here use it?

Is it any good? (seemed pretty clunky, at first sight)

G’day Rev, I used it in the early days and then stopped. The last place I was at used Evernote ( a non MS equivelent) for collarobration and I jumped on board with that for a while also. It can be useful, but you must really embrace fully either it or evernote to get the benefit. If you don’t want to use it as your ecosystem, then stay with the spreadsheets or just use it for the few useful tools it offers.

By the way, off topic, I came up with some VBA code I asked a question about here and thought you might be interested in it. How can I get it to you?

cheers,

stan101 said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Just discovered this is now part of Office.

Anyone here use it?

Is it any good? (seemed pretty clunky, at first sight)

G’day Rev, I used it in the early days and then stopped. The last place I was at used Evernote ( a non MS equivelent) for collarobration and I jumped on board with that for a while also. It can be useful, but you must really embrace fully either it or evernote to get the benefit. If you don’t want to use it as your ecosystem, then stay with the spreadsheets or just use it for the few useful tools it offers.

By the way, off topic, I came up with some VBA code I asked a question about here and thought you might be interested in it. How can I get it to you?

cheers,

Stan – dougaj4 at gmail , I’d be interested to have a look, thanks.