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Inking on Web Pages - Discussion
I wrote OneNote 2013 For Dummies and was curious when I saw this, so decided to check it out on my new Surface. Overall there doesn't seem to be a ton of info available obviously from the feature to make it make sense to me, but from what I can tell it just freezes the page in a way and lets you write on it.
This leads me to why this feature isn't OneNote, not Windows. It belongs in OneNote. One reason my book hasn't sold and people haven't used OneNote enough is the lack of integration into the operating system. Sticky Notes seem totally redundant to OneNote.
So, that said, if the feature moves forward I think it needs to be an extension handled by OneNote, which already includes this functionality.
As to its usefulness: the ability to mark up a page is obviously killer, but I'm not sure how it's implemented from my brief usage. Is it a screenshot of the page you're marking up?
Either way I think the feature obviously needs to move forward, but I'd let it be a OneNote addition. This would have the benefit of not having to recreate the entire feature within Linux.
- It serves a different purpose. I don't want to move a small picture into a different program. I want to be able to make a mark-up on the website I am looking at at the time. Often I don't even save, it's just for my own use at the moment. I don't want to jump back and forth between programs.
If Microsoft hadn't made this possible in the first place that would be one thing, but when you sell a device (Surface) with this as a feature, it is like a bait and switch. JHRussell1972 The feature is not a screenshot but rather the website with temporary changes, you can click scroll button to scroll page and then share, it becomes snapshot of site including temporary changes(i.e. the inking) when shared, it will be useful on Edge Chromium as it supports PDF displaying in the browser so you could take the PDF, annotate it with text or inking, highlight, etcetera, all in the browser, which would be very helpful to Students who can send in a PDF file with their own annotations in inking which is sometimes faster to display mathematical/scientific characters, without copy pasting or using Alt(ASCII) Code/Unicode, quite often time consuming, during this lockdown time.
JHRussell1972
2 points:
1. Whatever one grabs to share with Add notes can be directed to OneNote. So, they, already, DO work harmoniously.
2. It is wrong or certainly, incomplete to think of it as a 'screen or page grabber'. Web pages have heaps of stuff on them. If & when one cares to keep & or share a part of a page Add notes rises to the occasion. That "part" can be a recipe, an image, a piece of text, free-form AND THEN... one can draw, highlight, different colours & thickness, compose text ("This recipe sounds good.") Remember the recipe? It's like having a built-in Snip & Sketch... one can crop, print and more. It's terrific and invaluable!
Maybe, if & when one, in current Edge, uses Add notes and Share a wee bit, one suddenly understands & appreciates it & wants it a whole lot.
Cheers,
DrewObviously it's necessary to be able to mark up a web page, but also obviously you need to take a screen capture of it to do it. My point is that it can't be hard to recreate the feature, given it is so simple. Drew1903
JHRussell1972
Well, you know I agree 100%. We shouldn't even have be saying any of this. To be discussing whether Set aside, Add notes, Share and the other parts of Edge are in Edge or not... what? why? Makes no sense... they are parts of Edge, period. ANY Edge!
Cheers,
Drew
- Good point, there are also screenshots here
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Inking-on-Web-Pages-Discussion/m-p/1008078/highlight/true#M16984
JHRussell1972 wrote:I wrote OneNote 2013 For Dummies and was curious when I saw this, so decided to check it out on my new Surface. Overall there doesn't seem to be a ton of info available obviously from the feature to make it make sense to me, but from what I can tell it just freezes the page in a way and lets you write on it.
This leads me to why this feature isn't OneNote, not Windows. It belongs in OneNote. One reason my book hasn't sold and people haven't used OneNote enough is the lack of integration into the operating system. Sticky Notes seem totally redundant to OneNote.
So, that said, if the feature moves forward I think it needs to be an extension handled by OneNote, which already includes this functionality.
As to its usefulness: the ability to mark up a page is obviously killer, but I'm not sure how it's implemented from my brief usage. Is it a screenshot of the page you're marking up?
Either way I think the feature obviously needs to move forward, but I'd let it be a OneNote addition. This would have the benefit of not having to recreate the entire feature within Linux.
These are some examples that I did to show all the functionalities in Edge classic that people want to be shipped to the new Edge insider browser.
after you're done marking up, coloring, adding notes etc, you have 2 options. either clip a part of that page and save it to desktop. or use the "save" button at the top and save it to OneNote, favorites or Reading List.
Also I found sticky notes app very useful. specially its ability that automatically syncs everything I write and I can access the same notes on browser or my Android phone.
not to mention that I can also add images, custom fonts etc in the Sticky notes app.
- I agree with this, all these features should appear in the new Edge, they are very useful when you want to share parts of a page, highlighting some topics so you can easily observe whoever you send, giving opinions with the notes or simply underlining the important part of the website. Add this please, it is a very useful tool that should be followed in the browser.
I've nothing against Sticky Notes, but it seems even visually distinct from OneNote and I don't get why. Microsoft is usually pretty good with integration of apps and branding, but in this case they're missing the boat, I think, and OneNote has suffered in popularity because of it. HotCakeX
- Sticky Notes is a quick and simple version of OneNote. like when I want to just quickly save a piece of text or picture, I just go on and paste it in the Sticky notes app, that's the first thing comes to my mind. now I don't need to go to OneNote which is a full featured complete program. it is sometimes too much for quick and small things.
also Sticky notes don't occupy OneDrive storage whereas OneNote notebooks do.
JHRussell1972Guess it is onenote and it is just marking up a screenshot.
JHRussell1972
Please, reread my recent note, here. It is far, far more than that! Nor should it be downplayed, that would not be fair to it or the whole concept.
Cheers,
Drew
