Microsoft Prototypes a Useful Canvas for OneNote
Fans of Microsoft OneNote, listen up! If you’re running the productivity software on Windows Vista, you’ll want to download Canvas for OneNote. The prototype application comes from the Office Labs team and provides all new ways to organize your notebooks spatially and find information fast. The above demo vid I saw on Dan Escapa’s OneNote Blog explains it far better than I could.
You can easily move pages all around the canvas, group them, resize the groups and more. Simple zoom controls allow you to see your pages in more detail, so you can verify the information you’re looking for. There’s also a useful Activity View that highlights content you created during a specific period, using a time-frame slider. Very nice!
Looks to me, that you will need a very large screen, and great eye sight. Personally I do not like my environment that crowded. It just seems to me that I have too much to do. Time for Coffee?
Crashes horribly for me.
What might be more useful is a less linear structure: instead of the normal directory tree structure with notes as leaves, a directed graph (so two categories can connect to the same note or category) with notes as either leaves or nodes. How about that?
Microsoft should buy proper microphones to make videos. Sounds like they used an integrated laptop microphone.
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