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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.
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,
Drew
Obviously 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
