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Mar. 17th, 2011 07:33 pmProgress was slow around these parts today. Galina and I did some garage clean-up work, I cleaned up some of the junk in my office. I had another conversation with Bertrand, from France. This one was entirely in French, and I only struggled to find a handful of words. Next week, it'll be my turn to speak English with him.
I don't know why, but I've never been able to wrap myself around Microsoft's OneNote product, which basically gives you the ability to make "notes" and organize them into "sections," that are in turn organized into "notebooks." The product makes advances with every version, and now does pretty much what Evernote does, which includes syncing information over the Internet link.
The one area where it is apparent to me that OneNote outperforms Evernote is the ability to "clip" part of the screen, thus ending up with a bitmap image of what you've clipped inside of OneNote. I do a lot of such clipping, especially of online transaction confirmation screens. Fortunately, one can copy the clipped images from OneNote and paste them into Evernote (and if you use the OneNote Side Note from the system tray, you can elect to copy such images to the Clipboard only), but there nevertheless is one annoyance with the OneNote clipping feature.
As far as I can tell, once you've depressed the mouse key to start defining a chunk of screen real estate in OneNote, there's no way to cancel the operation so that you can reposition the mouse and start over. I've found I have to let the application paste what is, to me (by this time), a bitmap of no use to me into OneNote, whereupon I have to go back and try again and (eventually) chuck the useless bitmap.
In any event, while browsing a page of links to Autohotkey scripts (yes, I'm still exploring AHK), I ran across a script that lets you make screen clips with hardly any fuss at all, and there's no need to have an extra application open, either.
In other news, some weather appeared to zip past our window around dinnertime, when Galina and I were enjoying some corned beef and cabbage, and it put some snow on the mountains. Hopefully, that'll be all for the nonce.
Cheers...
I don't know why, but I've never been able to wrap myself around Microsoft's OneNote product, which basically gives you the ability to make "notes" and organize them into "sections," that are in turn organized into "notebooks." The product makes advances with every version, and now does pretty much what Evernote does, which includes syncing information over the Internet link.
The one area where it is apparent to me that OneNote outperforms Evernote is the ability to "clip" part of the screen, thus ending up with a bitmap image of what you've clipped inside of OneNote. I do a lot of such clipping, especially of online transaction confirmation screens. Fortunately, one can copy the clipped images from OneNote and paste them into Evernote (and if you use the OneNote Side Note from the system tray, you can elect to copy such images to the Clipboard only), but there nevertheless is one annoyance with the OneNote clipping feature.
As far as I can tell, once you've depressed the mouse key to start defining a chunk of screen real estate in OneNote, there's no way to cancel the operation so that you can reposition the mouse and start over. I've found I have to let the application paste what is, to me (by this time), a bitmap of no use to me into OneNote, whereupon I have to go back and try again and (eventually) chuck the useless bitmap.
In any event, while browsing a page of links to Autohotkey scripts (yes, I'm still exploring AHK), I ran across a script that lets you make screen clips with hardly any fuss at all, and there's no need to have an extra application open, either.
In other news, some weather appeared to zip past our window around dinnertime, when Galina and I were enjoying some corned beef and cabbage, and it put some snow on the mountains. Hopefully, that'll be all for the nonce.
Cheers...
