I almost hate to say it, but I am growing dependent on Microsoft OneNote.
Don't get me wrong: I hate OneNote. Its user interface sucks. There are so many improvements I could make to it...
But: it is really useful just to have something that I can drag and drop bitmaps into. Screen Clippings. That makes the bitmaps searchable via OCR.
E.g. today I made OneNote notebooks as I was (1) moving my NoIP accounts, and (2) shopping for a better wireless phone plan. With OneNote, I could just grab screen dumps of the various windows - that can't be cut and paste as text at all well - and can search the result.
Sure, I would like better. E.g. I wish OneNote's automatic recording of attribution worked more often. E.g. I have had OneNote cxrash and lose data, when using it at work, more times than I like to remember. But neverr
But what there is, is a start.
I tried Evernote as well today. I like the net centeredness. Haven't really used it another to now how it compares. One immediate problem: it doesn't work properly on my USB displays, only working on my laptop LCD. I also can't get screen clipping working outside of a web browser. But I'll probably figure that out evenntually.
The above was dictated using Microsoft Vista's speech recognition.
ReplyDeleteLook at all the typos, and dangling words!
I should review more carefully. But I am beginning to wonder if there need to be different review tool tunings for speech recognition than for typing. I make different errors typing than I do dictating.