Anthony Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I then > decided to write my own note taking application, but have since gave > up realising that nothing i could write could ever meet the power of > one note. One note was the one single reason I installed windows in > the first instance. > I'm using Onenote quite a lot myself at the moment, for two things. The most powerful is the way that annotations are automatically attached to the right place in audio recordings, so that I can jump instantly from my notes of an interview to the exact quote. I think it migh tbe possible to do something like that using OOo as a starting point. This would involve extending the capabilities of the Navigator if it were done throgouhly, but you could get a long way with macros anyway. There is, or was, a media player built in to OOo; even if it has fallen out of the 2.0 builds, there are plenty of python modules that will play sound files and can be built into OOo components. What's needed is a new bookmark type which would contain informaiton about where it is in an audio file as well as where it is in the page. This is the sort of thing that I suppose XML ought to make possible. Similarly, but much more easily, you could build "Note flags" into OOo, using characters styles. all one needs is a mapping between characters styles and categories of meaning -- everything Green and bold is a to-do, for example -- and then collecting all examples of that particular styl and being able to jump between them. The other nice thing about onenote -- the free-form, and infinitely extensible page that you write on -- is harder to imitate but may be less useful. But certainly onenote is a genuinely innovative product, and one of the nicest things that Microsoft has ever made. -- Andrew Brown The email in the header does not work. Contact details and possibly useful macros from http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
