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Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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r00fus wrote: post #93
methehack wrote: post #58

Meh. Against my better judgment, I downloaded it and poked around. Predictably, it does not play well others. Most notable, there is no export functionality. There is a 'Share as PDF' which is (a) not the same, and (b) broken for me because 'my email program is not set up properly' which is false. Hard to trust. (Evernote has a fine export capability, fwiw). One Note will, however, appeal to people who prefer 'struct…

I just want to chime in on how frustrating it is that you can't save Outlook emails in a standard non-mircorosft format that another mail client can understand (even Outlook on Windows) - apparently it saves it as ".olm" format (Outlook for Mac). Serious WTF here. For this reason alone, I'm still using a Windows VM simply for the "real" Outlook for work purposes.

In my experience, moving mail messages between clients is best done via an IMAP server. Drag them to it in client #1, then out of it in client #2. That preserves folder structure and time stamps.

The only problem I know of with this approach, when coming from Outlook, are the Winmail.dat files that Outlook (or MS Exchange?) creates "to preserve text formatting".

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by FeloniousHam »

Karunamon wrote: post #103
petercooper wrote: post #5

Free, good looking, fast (so far).. color me impressed. And I access my notes on iOS, Mac, Windows, Windows Phone and Android? Maybe I'm being idealistic but I'd love to see Microsoft become a truly cross-platform "enterprise-quality" software house. There's tons of great software out there, but rather little that works seamlessly (or even well) across iOS, Android, Windows and the Mac.. and with its resources, inhou…

I would love to see this happen. Right now though, the sheer amount of fighting I do with the Office suite on Mac.. Rant mode on: Remember how people used to feel about accidentally clicking on PDFs before Adobe cleaned their act up and the better third party readers came along? I'm that way right now with Word and Excel. It takes a full 30-60 seconds to spin up and actually render the damn paperwork, sometimes it's…

Re: Outlook search

I have to search multiple times to get any results, with the bonus that a single MOC conversation will show up as multiple, separate entries for every time it was saved.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by acdha »

Karunamon wrote: post #103
petercooper wrote: post #5

Free, good looking, fast (so far).. color me impressed. And I access my notes on iOS, Mac, Windows, Windows Phone and Android? Maybe I'm being idealistic but I'd love to see Microsoft become a truly cross-platform "enterprise-quality" software house. There's tons of great software out there, but rather little that works seamlessly (or even well) across iOS, Android, Windows and the Mac.. and with its resources, inhou…

I would love to see this happen. Right now though, the sheer amount of fighting I do with the Office suite on Mac.. Rant mode on: Remember how people used to feel about accidentally clicking on PDFs before Adobe cleaned their act up and the better third party readers came along? I'm that way right now with Word and Excel. It takes a full 30-60 seconds to spin up and actually render the damn paperwork, sometimes it's…

This is basically the same as on the PC – Microsoft has shown a few signs of changing their internal culture but for a long time they apparently prioritized new features over improvements to existing features, which meant that most of the bugs / UI mistakes I remembered from Office 2000 (or even 97!) are still present in the current version. Something like switching to asynchronous networking would make daily life better for millions of customers but no PM wants to lead a release with “UI freezes less frequently”

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by Consultant32452 »

jonhohle wrote: post #49
FreezerburnV wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A big update for Office for Mac is also supposed to be incoming soon. (as in, a major update like Office for Mac 2014 kind of major) I agree that the current stuff is kind of janky and it would be nice if it got fixed, though. My wife writes novels with it and tends to have 10+ documents open, which makes it freak out sometimes and totally stop working. Hopefully the new version will work a lot better, not be too exp…

> My wife writes novels with it… Honest question: what does Word offer the novelist that a plain text (or rich text) editor would not? I've known others who have worked on a novel in Word, but I just can't imagine a workflow where binary Word documents would be better than plain text.

I'm not a novelist but I rather enjoy being able to annotate my work with the review features in Word. That's the primary benefit to me over a plain text editor. I would assume an author working with editors and such would find these features to be even more valuable.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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jonhohle wrote: post #49
FreezerburnV wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A big update for Office for Mac is also supposed to be incoming soon. (as in, a major update like Office for Mac 2014 kind of major) I agree that the current stuff is kind of janky and it would be nice if it got fixed, though. My wife writes novels with it and tends to have 10+ documents open, which makes it freak out sometimes and totally stop working. Hopefully the new version will work a lot better, not be too exp…

> My wife writes novels with it… Honest question: what does Word offer the novelist that a plain text (or rich text) editor would not? I've known others who have worked on a novel in Word, but I just can't imagine a workflow where binary Word documents would be better than plain text.

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Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by theshrike79 »

FeloniousHam wrote: post #172
Karunamon wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would love to see this happen. Right now though, the sheer amount of fighting I do with the Office suite on Mac.. Rant mode on: Remember how people used to feel about accidentally clicking on PDFs before Adobe cleaned their act up and the better third party readers came along? I'm that way right now with Word and Excel. It takes a full 30-60 seconds to spin up and actually render the damn paperwork, sometimes it's…

Re: Outlook search I have to search multiple times to get any results, with the bonus that a single MOC conversation will show up as multiple, separate entries for every time it was saved.

Also the search starts from the oldest mail onwards, which is really handy when I need to find something that was sent to me a month ago. And my mailbox has over 4 years of mails in it...

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by migrantgeek »

Joeri wrote: post #116
thinkling wrote: post #98

FYI, Mac App Store told me OneNote runs on Mavericks (10.9) only.

Then again, why would you run anything less? Even my dated mac mini runs much better on mavericks than lion.

Corporate policy :(

I really wanted to try this out but I'm stuck on 10.8

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by latraveler »

simplify wrote: post #36
toddmorey wrote: post #6

Love to see this out there, but it seems to suffer from the same visual clutter that I believe Evernote does. I love the OCR technology of Evernote, but I have the hardest time with it as a writing environment. Does anyone know of a nice, clean note taking environment for Mac that still supports links between notes and the occasional image?

You're looking for Notational Velocity. It's free, open source, minimalistic, keyboard-centric, and extremely fast. I use it all day, every day. http://notational.net/screenshots.html It doesn't quite do images, since it's text only. nvALT is a fork of the project with extra features. Its image support might fit your needs: http://brettterpstra.com/2012/09/27/quick-tip-images-in-nval...

Notational is so badass. I'm going to give OneNote a hard look when I have some time but I'm so used to Notational that I might just stick with it. I would like to see some additional formatting options in NV but the speed and UX are unbeatable.
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