Beta 2

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Now that OneNote 2007 Beta 2 has been out for a couple of days, I'm curious to hear your thoughts.  While I'm probably directly responsible for your gripes regarding: Migration, Tables, Drag and Drop, along with the updated UI, I'd love to hear your feedback regardless! What do you like?  What works well?  And more importantly, what isn't so great?  What would you like to see changed?

Also: please report those bugs!  Dan Escapa, one of our PMs, posted instructions on his blog about how to go about sending us your pesky issues.  Click away.  We really do read them.

And for those interested in what's new on the extensibility front, do be sure to check out: What's New for Developers in OneNote 2007 Part 1 and Part 2.

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  • Anonymous
    June 01, 2006
    Beta 2 is looking quite nice.

    While I realize this is more an OS issue than a OneNote issue, I am still holding out hope of full tablet support for the desktop OSes for those of us who use drawing tablets - being able to have the handwriting recognition in OneNote using my Wacom tablet would be incredibly handy.

  • Anonymous
    June 13, 2006
    Thanks, Donovan!  Beta 2 does look nice, and if you had anything to do with tables, than I salute you.

    I have already submitted a bug to the connect site (dealing with shared notebooks on an https WebDav server), and I hope to add a couple more as I find time to play around with some more.  The search stuff seems a little unstable, and "make text in image searchable" has crashed the poor thing more than once.  (But I think that the most natural thing would be for migrated notes to automatically have this done.)

    Blog suggestion:  Why not explain the design process behind the new OneNote API?  (Jensen Harris has become a bit of a celebrity talking about the design process of the Office UI.  Why not API design?)

  • Anonymous
    September 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 02, 2006
    Jeffrey_t_b: That's a great idea -- but unfortunately I haven't been as involved in the design of the OneNote 2007 extensibility work, so don't really feel comfortable talking about the design.  However, Dan Escapa (on http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/) is the PM who owns the feature, and he's been blogging quite a bit about extensibility related issues.   Blair: Have you tried the B2TR update?  We made quite a few fixes with InkAnalysis that should make life better with auto-recognition of multiple lines.  Also, if you have a button on your stylus, you can lasso select in ink mode without having to switch to the selection tool. Hope this helps, Donovan

  • Anonymous
    October 06, 2006
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