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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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Since 2003. Best developer collaboration tool. I use for code reviews. Great for research using the OneNote Clipper Tool. Great for quick notes that you can research later. I could go on and on.
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Switched from OneNote and Evernote to [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/).
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I use it for documentation. I have a suite of network automation tools and I use OneNote as a repository for each project from start to current. You can divide each project page into sections for troubleshooting, program purpose, change history, etc. I link in specific network folders for project files and documents. It is easy to navigate and search.
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I love OneNote for dumping notes in. if you have the full office I would suggest adding on NoteHighlight it allows you to insert formatted and colored code in quite a few programming languages.
also using it to checkoff tasks or reminders, cheat sheets, locations of things on the servers....
my only issue is going back one in a while and cleaning up my notes.
If I ever leave this place, they are going to keep the OneNote backups safe.
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I've used it before at work and it has a lot of features. However isn't it tied to the Microsoft eco system? Does it exist outside of Windows? I'm a big Notepad++ user, but I also save a lot of notes in a TiddlyWiki for various projects. Anyone else explore TiddlyWiki? https://tiddlywiki.com/
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I used to - but after losing data through broken cloud synch a few times, I've given up. I'm using text files and markup(with images) - with a python script that indexes the lot. At least I can validate it's being saved and grep across the detail if I need to do a word search.
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I use a 20yr old delphi tool called ActionOutline.
A Spell Checker and slightly improved export feature set would be welcomed... LOL
But for similar things. I take meeting notes, track things. It's multi-tabbed (multiple open projects).
And then it's an outline. Very easy to navigate.
In any outline, F3 lets me search downward from where I am.
I do store snippets of commands, SQL, etc. In some files, TODO items, Recipes. Etc.
Many many years ago there was a fancy tool.
the BIGGEST downside is that it is SO GOOD of an outliner, that I prefer it over everything. LOL
And then you go to use MSFT Project, and you LITERALLY WANT TO CHOKE SOMEONE!
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My organization has dozens of small C# projects, compiled in every version of VS that has been published, and some have not been recompiled in a decade (not broken, don't fix it!). Unfortunately, as time marches on, the older code is less and less likely to compile successfully in newer versions of C#/VS. I'm looking at upgrading some of the programs to either VS 2019 or 2022.
Moving to VS 2022 provides a longer lifespan before it's sunsetted (01/13/2032), at which point I should be retired and it will no longer be my problem.
Is VS 2022 ready for usage, or does MS need to fix more things first?
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Some of our devs are using 2022 now and they don't see any major issues. I think we will moving to it here soon.
for what it is worth, Microsoft is still fixing bugs with VS 2019. The VS IDE versions are never "really" ready for prime time.
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Slacker007 wrote: Microsoft is still fixing bugs with VS 2019. The VS IDE versions are never "really" ready for prime time.
Very true!
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VS 2017 seems to finally be stable.
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...only because MS Devs are not really messing with it anymore.
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We have been using it since the production release without any issues. You may have more issues moving to the new .net version than with VS itself. We are staying on .Net 4.8 with VS2022 for our desktop app, but we moved to .NET 6 for the Blazor app. No issues for us in either case.
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GadgetNC wrote: We are staying on .Net 4.8 with VS2022 for our desktop app The old applications are mostly desktop -- written in every version of .Net possible.
On the plus side, there is currently no listed end-date for .NET Framework 4.6.2, 4.7.x or 4.8. Current projects are all on 4.8, and I suspect all our older desktop applications will remain on 4.8 until they are rewritten, or until the end of time, whichever comes first (although "end of time" is more likely).
I assume others are facing the problem I am. How are you handling it?
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