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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 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'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.
- 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.
