[chandler-users] Re: Chandler + MS One Note

[Keith Winsor]

Mimi Yin wrote:
> https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7612#c34
>
> Keith pointed out that on Windows, the new URL recognition feature 
> doesn't recognize Microsoft OneNote links and Jeffrey created a patch 
> you can apply to make the OneNote URLs work in Chandler on Windows.
>
> I'm wondering if it'd be worthwhile to make OneNote URLs work for 
> everyone out of the box.
>
> Depending on how people use OneNote, helping to bridge workflow gaps 
> between Chandler and OneNote might give us a way to try out some of 
> the scenarios we've been talking about re: EverNote.
>
> Keith, could you describe how you use OneNote in conjunction with 
> Chandler?
>
> Mimi
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Mimi,

As I posted in my user story, I am hopelessly disorganised. I have a 
theory that if I buy enough plastic boxes, I'll attain the miraculous 
state of 'in control'. Bits of paper containing 'notes to self' used to 
be found months after they'd been written, by which time it was too late 
to do anything with them.

OneNote has become my one piece of paper. On my tablet PC, I can hand 
write notes as I'm on the phone to customers. I can use it creatively 
for something like mind mapping - free-form, different colours, engage 
both sides of the brain. I can print web pages to it, embed photos and 
web clippings, possible solutions to problems - anything relating to 
anything, and all shared between whichever machines I'm using at the time.

Chandler provides diary and task management capabilities, shared between 
myself and my wife. I tend to use OneNote for the 'capture' phase and 
for organising my thoughts, then Chandler manages the next actions, 
appointments, and reminders. Typically, I create a list of actions in 
OneNote, hit a hot key in AutoHotKey and the selected action will be 
copied to clipboard and pasted to a new task in Chandler. One feature of 
OneNote is a right-click "copy this page's URL to clipboard" and I'm 
envisaging modifying my script to create a task in Chandler and then 
paste the URL of the OneNote page into Chandler's notes field, providing 
a one-click link back to the original OneNote page. Also, I'm looking at 
an AutoHotKey script to copy a task in OneNote and paste it into 
Chandler's search box, so that I've got a kludgey but fairly seamless 
each way link between items.

So nothing too complicated, just a quick means of linking items in each 
app to each other.

All the best,

Keith