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I keep setting up organizations of items in OneNote, but then find ways that are easier for me to use and never go back to those organizations. Quite often, the reorganization involves an Access database. But for PDF studies, what you are doing sounds good.
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I use OneNote to keep track of my all activities. 
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I just started using OneNote for Electronic reference materials and am liking it.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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I think OneNote had been out for a solid decade before I finally "got it". Before that I couldn't see what the point was. Nowadays I more or less use it as a technical daily diary, if you will. A log book might not be an inaccurate way to describe it.
For work, I have a chronological notebook where I create a new page for each workday. Some days a page might end up containing a single bullet point; on other days it might be as long a 5 printed pages (if I were to print it out). Embedding links to external resources (Ctrl-K) is useful much beyond a favorites/bookmarks list.
If I had to look up some obscure command with non-obvious arguments, it'll go there. If I had to change some important settings on some server, I'll take a screenshot (possibly writing down how to get to that hidden dialog box). I might include some debug output. Every pull request I submit gets its own link pasted. Any important note that doesn't belong in a source code file is probably going to end up on a page as well.
It ended up being somewhat of an unorganized scrapbook (save for the fact that everything is sorted by day), but it's still extremely useful. Hardly a day ever goes by where I don't look up something I wrote down some time ago.
The search results window could be better (I've never found the holy grail to organizing these tidbits into logical categories), but still, it's been incredibly valuable.
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It sounds like a poor version of asana to me.
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Cpichols wrote: It sounds like a poor version of asana to me.
asana.com?
Never heard of it, and based (purely) on their web site's screenshots, it looks more like a project management tool than something that lets you write down unstructured, random notes. The only "structure" I have in my notes is the fact that each workday gets its own tab.
As a project management tool, yeah, OneNote would be rather poor. But that's not what I use it for.
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So you're saying that asana is more than you need? It absolutely has no rules on where you put your random notes, so it covers that nicely as well as things that you want more structure for.
iow: a poor version (maybe it's better to say, 'a very limited sample') of asana.
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No, I was just saying they seem to put a lot of emphasis on pretty graphs showing progress and dependencies and relationships and those sorts of things (again, judging purely from screenshots on their main page. Maybe it could do the job for my simple note-keeping, but that's not how they're trying to sell it. That's where I stopped looking - mostly because I have a tool that works and I'm not trying to replace it.
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There was a program before it called "Ecco". It was the first of this sort that I was exposed to. Seemed like major over the top then - wish it was around today. As I recall, you entered stuff once, and could present it on different views. It had the folders and tabs of OneNote, but AIR, better presentation options.
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Good old Ecco(Pro). It was kept alive for years by Compusol Creative Solutions and "slangmgh". I never mastered all the views, but it was the best outliner/list keeper I've ever used.
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ADHD wouldn't let me stick with it long enough to get geek'd by it.
I keep waiting for one of the other trapper-keeper(s) to bring that back.
Google photos - one photo, many albums.
I suppose I could make my own cross-links in OneNote.
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I don't even know WTF it is, except that I have to kill it every time I use a new PC because it wants to illegally occupy my desktop with an inane widget.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I use it for a couple of things
1. recording invoicable time
2. OCR on images, this only works in the installed program not the app version, paste the image in, right click on it and extract the text
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I dabbled in OneNote when it first came out and never quite found my groove with it. For some reason text files and word docs with screenshots pasted in and saving in folders was just more "natural" for my cluttered mind.
At work, early in my dev career, a couple of dev projects were "documented" in a notebook but it wasn't until about 7-8 years ago that something just clicked.
A work project turned into a personal project management and meeting notes tool.. then a digital whiteboard (as i ended up losing my whiteboard at my cubicle.) Then a cheatsheet repository for all devops functions of a specific product I was lead dev on..
Then it bled into my personal life.. Todo lists, shopping lists, travel notes and planning, hobby stuff, even became a personal blog like journal for an adventure I took.
I jumped on the bandwagon with EverNote for a year or so back before the pandemic and it just didnt click the same for me as OneNote.. So I migrated the notes over and have my OneNote notebooks all saved onto OneDrive so I can freely access them on any device.
Still a full representation of my cluttered mind.. But at least I evolved a little from files in folders on a USB drive. Which I still do sometimes.
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ALl the time, from shopping list to to do task to quick notes.
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I am going out on a limb here so if I am breaking rules just delete the post
A while back the lounge had a discussion about "The Best Way to Store Code Snippets"
Rick Zeland did his Slant thing. JoanA ask why not write your own?
So I DID While I am novice compared to the likes around here. I like to say its amazing.
You have two options to store Code Snippets.
1. As text files you store in a folder on your hard drive
2. The more robust way in a SQLite DB so they are revertible by code language type
I am willing to share the code or an installer exe file that has an uninstaller
Code is written with VB.Net and is a WinForms application.
I have a GitHub repo but do not know if I am able to post here a link.
I would post in the Questions but not sure I can add a link and that seems like an inappropriate place to Post.
I would enjoy writing an article but sorry to say the explanation of how to do that is less than friendly.
If you respond I can share a link to the GitHub repo
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Hi, could you post the Github repo? I would like to take a look at it. Thanks!
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I started Journaling back in the early 90's. I have a page pretty much for every day of my life since then. Or at least a section. When onenote came out with ink support and Samsung came out with the Note phablet. I was hooked! It is the bomb for journaling. Yes I use it for other stuff mentioned here. SQL scripts that I thought were kewl at the time. Coding examples I want to remember, Screen shots of server settings etc.... But The really awesome part for me is the writing on my tablet and having that sync across all my devices and having a back up of my disjointed thoughts. And my handwriting is even searchable. Which is amazing! I pretty much live in OneNote.
I have mine categorized into
Work stuff only for me.
Work Teams OneNotes
Very Personal Journal
Personal Notes - lists, inventions, thoughts, weird random ideas etc...
Personal notes with my family members. (they sometimes actually use it. not often though) Shopping list from my lady etc..
the only downfall for Onenote in my opinion is that Microsoft owns it and at some point in the future they are going to make it something I don't want. I just know it. They are excellent and ruining a perfectly good application. Soo, I have been checking out other things. The best of the other options I have found is Joplin Notes. It is worth checking it out. If only it supported Pen input(writing on Screen).
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: Microsoft owns it and at some point in the future they are going to make it something I don't want. I just know it. They are excellent and ruining a perfectly good application
That's when you hang on to your old version's ISO/installer and never upgrade. Heck if it wasn't for work, I'd probably still be using Office 2003.
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naw, I would be 100% open source or Linux if it wasn't for work. I have no problems giving money to open source projects and I support more than one financially.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Nope, never touched it and now that I'm retired probably never will.
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I use OneNote to capture web pages on things I research, such as blogs on how to use various packages or software development concepts needed to work on an assigned task at work.
Although I have terrible organizing when it comes to looking for specific things in one Note, it has a robust search capability.
I need to figure out a good tagging system on the various things collected though. I think that would help tremendously.
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I have seen other people using it very well. (or at least, it looks to me like they are) I even attended classes on using OneNote.
I have tried on multiple occasions to make use of it, but it always ends up looking like a digital version of that one, single file drawer; full of all kinds of info that I think is either useful, or may be in the future. None of it really fitting together well enough to make up a combined file, so everything is either a folder with one piece of paper in it, or a stack of random papers crammed between two folders.
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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