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Realtime OneNote Collaboration / Synchronization
We collaborate with remote colleagues and find ourselves trying to use onenote as a collaborative whiteboard which also handily doubles as a historian of our collab sessions. The issue is that synchr...
Sync delay is almost a must. By experience, desktop version of OneNote does auto-save about every 10 second of any movement made on a notebook.
So when you say "20 seconds" I guess it does make sense because your editing takes 10 seconds to upload then the other side needs approx 10 seconds to download.
If you really like a solution of making it "real-time", I suggest try using OneNote online (make a few test first). Imagine, the 10 second loading time is actually because of the "platform", from your machine to cloud then to other machine(s).
So if the platform was on the cloud, means both side are on the same platform, same page editing.
Hope these info helps. Cheers.
So when you say "20 seconds" I guess it does make sense because your editing takes 10 seconds to upload then the other side needs approx 10 seconds to download.
If you really like a solution of making it "real-time", I suggest try using OneNote online (make a few test first). Imagine, the 10 second loading time is actually because of the "platform", from your machine to cloud then to other machine(s).
So if the platform was on the cloud, means both side are on the same platform, same page editing.
Hope these info helps. Cheers.
- That makes some sense but is not going to work because we will be using it for group white boarding during Skype for business meetings. I am surprised that we were unable to use even the Skype white boarding during our meetings (too slow). I am also surprised that Microsoft creats a group notebook in onenote for s4b meetings. This made me think we could use it in real time.
- One thing that is interesting is that the surface hub allows real time synchronized white boarding so it has to be possible somehow.
EDIT:This is not true. Surface hub currently suffers from the same issue.Just FYI: Looks like microsoft whiteboard is being worked on:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3197761/software/microsoft-shows-the-power-of-its-pen-with-a-new-whiteboard-app-and-other-upgrades.html
