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MicrosoftIntroducing web capture for Microsoft Edge
HotCakeX So develop Snip & Sketch for the other OS's and platforms like they are for Edge... perhaps as a feature set of Sticky Notes. Better than having multiple apps. Still waiting on them making sense of all their Task Management apps which are inconsistent at best.
one takes screenshots, the other takes text notes.
it's like saying instead of using notebooks for your class, use a drawing board.
developing this feature into Edge is easier and logical than publishing apps for other OSes. this can count as an advantage for the browser.
HotCakeX I just discovered that Sticky Notes support images.
My take is that if all of these apps can handle the same basic data, then put all the data in a pool and access the pool through whichever app makes sense.
- Sticky notes and Snip & sketch are very very different apps. it'd be ridiculous to merge them. it's not even the topic of this thread.
one of them takes screenshot, the other takes text notes and ALSO has the ability to store pictures next to text notes.
- Build the functionality into Collections
Build the functionality into Sticky Notes
Build the functionality into the OneNote Web Clipper
Build the functionality into Snip n Sketch
My point is, how many apps does MS need that do almost, but not quite the same thing?MartinJoyce67 Collections are a part of Edge, but perform a very different function
Sticky Notes is a separate app, not available on Linux/MacOS
OneNote Web Clipper only works with OneNote
Snip & Sketch is not available on Linux/Mac.
This is a different use-case than those options, that's why it's a part of Edge.
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MartinJoyce67 wrote:
Build the functionality into Collections
Build the functionality into Sticky Notes
Build the functionality into the OneNote Web Clipper
Build the functionality into Snip n Sketch
My point is, how many apps does MS need that do almost, but not quite the same thing?that makes no sense. collections? Snip & sketch? Sticky notes? each of them has an entirely different use case.
Collections = save web content the way they are, without converting them to other formats like images.
Sticky notes = mainly for keeping text notes with the ability to add images next to texts
Snip & Sketch = the main screenshot tool for Windows 10 with the ability to annotate screenshots.
OneNote web-clipper extension = created for Chromium browsers so that users of those browsers (not just 1 browser) to be able to save their content to OneNote.
each has different use case, makes absolutely no sense to be merged. engineers are developers with brain power thought about all of these well before making them.
I've been thinking of the same thing. Right now:
To-Do links up to Sticky Notes
Sticky Notes links up to Project Moca / Spaces
Project Moca Tasks link up to To-Do Tasks.
It looks like One-Note provides an interface with Sticky Notes and it's the only way to do Sticky Notes on iOS that I know of.
A baseline framework for sharing all of these things seems to be possible, but there are a few kinks to work out. For instance, OneNote and Sticky Notes could be better integrated (sticky notes could be a page each, contained in a special section in OneNote. Then your OneNote Web Clipper can send things to your "Sticky Notes" section and you've got "Send to Sticky Notes" for free.).
Let's say they take web captures and turn them into an element of data that is interchangeable with a Sticky Note or a OneNote page. (I'd like to see collections get the same treatment).
I think this would reduce the frustration with having many apps. Each app offers a specialized way to deal with the data, but all the data is in all the apps and you don't have to worry about picking one app to work with.
Sorry it was a long walk to address your comment, but I do see this as a good solution.
