Markus, a lot of your questions/suggestions have already been aired in the
OneNote public newsgroup: microsoft.public.onenote where the OneNote Team
from Microsoft is quite active and various MVPs support the program. You
might also want to view a demo (really wonderful and educational) on OneNote
which is available here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...423061033.aspx I have
gone back to it several times, and each time learn something more about
OneNote I had no idea the program could do.

And, for the record, Windows Journal is a simple, "this is how good Ink can
be on a Tablet PC" program written primarily for everyone to use as a
demo/beginner application. OneNote, although written for use both on a
Tablet with Ink and a laptop/desktop without Ink, is a more advanced
application. Especially with the OneNote SP1 version where Microsoft dumped
the traditional "fix-bugs-only" approach and added more features in the
update.

Lastly, Windows Journal should not be taking 100% of the CPU at all. If you
continue to have issues with it, there are several things we can try to fix
the situation for you.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"Markus Bauer" <mc_mc_mc@lycos.de> wrote in message
news:O6MdtezdFHA.892@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
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> I mainly use my TabletPC for a "paper block". I used MS Journal but soon
> I lost enjoyment of my new Tablet: After a little time, the fan began to
> be noisy, although I did not very much on my Tablet except writing and
> reading PDF.
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> After some time, I saw that MS Journal Writer needs 100% (!!!!!) of the
> CPU while writing (fast). I could not imagine how such a "simple"
> operation (compared to others!) could waste whole CPU making my tablet
> very noisy and reducing battery life a loot.
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> Then I found OneNote and was very happy that it just takes 30-40% of CPU
> while writing as fast as in JournalWriter.
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> But I like the concept of JournalWriter more (just VERY simple, no
> useless things) and therefore I have a few questions how I could improve
> OneNote to be more like JournalWriter.
>
> 1.) The rubber is not accurate. I use the big one and want to clear
> anything thats under the square. In JournalWriter it worked, in OneNote
> not. Now I have to "move around" and then it can happen that things get
> erased that I don't wanted to be erased.
>
> 2.) Why are there so big grids in OneNote? Now I must always use the 50%
> view so that I have a grid thats as small as in JournalWriter. Is there
> any way to set the grid smaller then the smalltest (5mm) grid like on a
> real paper? And in 50% the lines from the pen are much finer than in 100%
> view. Is there a way to make them also as thin as in 50% view?
>
> 3.) Is it somehow possible to also print the grid?
>
> 4.) A very annoying "feature" is that OneNote automatically sets text
> mode. But I really don't need textmode, I just want to write with my
> stylus! So I have always to "re-select" the pen-icon to enter penmode.
> Also, after a few seconds, or when the Tablet enters standby the last
> "group" is marked. This is also VERY annoying! (it's possible to just
> disable text mode?)
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> 5.) Is it possible to "fix" the header? The problem is that when I write
> in the first line I unintentionally resize the header.
>
> 6.) Scrolling is very cumbersomely: In JournalWriter I just could use
> "Page down" and I had a new sheet of "paper". I also could use arrows to
> scroll a just a little bit. This is great because the tablet has
> hardwarebuttons assigned to PG-UP, PG-DOWN, UP and DOWN.
> When I use the cursor keys in OneNote, OneNotes swichtes to textmode
> instead of just scrolling. Page UP/DOWN even does not work at all! How
> can i *simply* add a sheet of paper as I did in JournalWriter?
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> ...Or is there a small hack for JournalWriter that it needs as less CPU
> as OneNote?
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> Thank you very much in advance,
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