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Haven't given it much thought; the Home screen mentions shopping lists and such.
Been working on a project that references multiple pdfs; with tables referencing other tables and appendixes and procedure paragraphs. Mentally exhausting.
Started "snipping" everything using Snipping Tool; pasting it into OneNote however I wanted.
Access times reduced to a minimum; a new, more relaxing study experience.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I use OneNote to keep track of SQL snippets (especially ones that were painful to write), server lists, phone numbers, etc. As you said, access is quick.
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SQL, yes. I usually wind up with test scripts called test1, test2 ... and forget what they were for.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Among other things, I support an ancient system that was not well designed. I have to execute a fair number of ad hoc queries, and some of the techniques I've developed to navigate around the poor design are NOT anything I'd care to figure out twice. So I have my queries saved in well named tabs, and have comments with each query.
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Here’s a link to a comment I made about saving SQL Scripts:
The Lounge
As for OneNote, I use it regularly for my shopping list, and sporadically for travel notes, recipes, etc.
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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I have, years ago for a couple of projects, but not since. It's funny you mention it though as I was considering it again after having lost a half-dozen queries (work in progress) pasted into Notepad windows when the power was briefly interrupted. (it's also happened due to a windows update...you'd think I'd have learned by now!) Having an autosave/recovery would have been nice!
From what I remember, it was fantastic...organize by tabs and freeform placement of anything you want, all self-contained. I really don't know why I stopped using it???
I've also recently started using the Snipping Tool instead of Ctrl+PS and cropping in paint...much easier. I recently found that it has a delay feature to enable you do things like show a dropdown list for a screen grab.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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kmoorevs wrote: It's funny you mention it though as I was considering it again after having lost a half-dozen queries (work in progress) pasted into Notepad windows when the power was briefly interrupted.
For this purpose, consider use Notepad++ instead of Notepad. NP++ saves all windows, so if the app is terminated, the next time it opens it will load all previous windows. It also has a large number of plugins available.
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For NP++ - I don't believe the auto-save windows is turned on by default. It's in the Backups section of Preferences called "Remember current session for next launch". It will remember new document tabs that are not saved.
Mike
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I'm not talking about the auto-save, which I didn't turn on. I rarely use an auto-save feature in any application, as it is likely to save changes I don't want saved.
The feature I mentioned is that all tabs are re-opened the next time NP++ is opened. If a file has unsaved changes, when closing the tab, NP++ prompts to save. NP++ saves each tab in a temporary area.
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What, no UPS?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Ahem, a UPS will not protect you from the dreaded "We're from Microsoft, and we're here to help - rebooting now" malware attack.  but point taken.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I use OneNote all the time at work and for personal. Mine saves to the cloud (OneDrive) which is nice because I can then access my notes from any device.
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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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