Early Feedback OneNote 2010 Technical Preview

Daniel Escapa (OneNote Manager) Responding to my Feedback

Thanks for the great feedback and please see inline below...it is so great to hear from you all!

> The left hand side list of Notebooks no longer shrinks the notebook > name. I believe that this is a regression. I know what notebook it > is based on the first few letters of the notebook or its position on > the list. I favor a fast access to my notebooks, using 1 > click.

This is by design, a lot of people had problems with how this worked in OneNote 2007 because the UI would just have these little icons without any text or information. A change was made to make the notebooks scale better and now there is a notebook overflow on the bottom of the navbar on the left. This way the most important notebooks are on up on top and you can still read the text.

> If I have both 2007 and 2010 installed, and create a screen clipping, > the screen clipping goes to 2007. Even if 2007 is not open, it will > open 2007 and paste the screen clipping in.

If you are on Click-2-Run then this is a known issue. Otherwise this is due to you have two items in the Startup folder one for 2007 & another for 2010. Remove the 2007 one and you should be all set. This happens because Windows starts both of these and the first one wins which in your case is for 2007.

> Emailing seems to be different in that it will now open an new email > window. Also a .one file is no longer attached. It also seems that > the email format changed for the better.

Yay!

> There seems to be no support for publishing a whole notebook PDF. I > do not like this. I believe that publishing a notebook PDF should be > allowed. Furthermore, I believe that you should also recreate a > notebook page structure using PDF bookmarks.

You can still do this, just look in the Backstack menu, this didn't change. Also you can still choose to Save As a notebook and do the same thing you could in 2007.

> One of the challenges I have with 2007 is how can I publish or share > OneNote notebooks for people who do not have OneNote. PDF currently > is OK, but the bookmark support would make it very good. I also use > the web exporter posted on Codeplex. This publishes a IE/Opera only > (because it uses MHT) browsable notebook. I am looking forward to > your web support, but I really hope there will be an option to export > a web read-only version which works in all browsers and provides a > mirror of the notebook's structure.

Agreed : )

> Creating a new notebook should use the normal folder location > Documents/OneNote Notebooks as a default.

I think it defaults there the first time and then remembers where you chose in the past. Thanks for the feedback.

> As I mentioned in different posts (under old handle michael180): Pen > support is not working on my Fujitsu T4220 tablet; I wish that you > used the radial menus of Inkseine for change pens; and something > needs to be done similar to the QAT in full screen mode that > maximizes document space and minimizes pen taps. > > Changing a UI of a well-known program is always hard for a user. But > the new versions must be better for people to want to upgrade. > Subpage nesting and search really look good! But for me to really > want to use 2010, I need fast access, with minimum screen usage, for > my common tasks (changing pen colors, pages, etc) while in full > screen mode when using a tablet. In particular I think your > interface is best aligned for keyboard and mouse OneNote users. > While this may be the majority of the users, I think that you should > provide a fast interface for pen users. I think full screen mode > should be "tablet" mode. In my experience, I only use full screen > mode when using a pen, never when using a keyboard and mouse (which I > do a lot in OneNote). The full screen tablet mode should bypass the > ribbon by default, use radial menus, and provide fast access to > common tasks similar to 2007 full screen toolbar or the 2010 QAT > except bigger and optimized for pen.

Yup we are aware of this and working to make it better.