I just read some of the threads on GoBinder and I also went to the website. As a student, I must say that it does sound very interesting. I just had one concern though. My gateway convertible came with Microsoft OneNote and this program seems to be pretty top of the line, and its part of Microsoft's Office Suite so its compatible with all of the other Microsoft programs. How integrable is GoBinder with MS Office and One Note?

In article <22A4375E-0199-49C8-AC1E-34DC04E16E65@microsoft.com>,
RV@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> I just read some of the threads on GoBinder and I also went to the website. As a student, I must say that it does sound very interesting. I just had one concern though. My gateway convertible came with Microsoft OneNote and this program seems to be pretty top of the line, and its part of Microsoft's Office Suite so its compatible
with all of the other Microsoft programs. How integrable is GoBinder with MS Office and One Note?
>

Well, for one thing, OneNote is NOT that especially compatible with
Microsoft Office. Certainly no more than many other programs, including
GoBinder. OneNote has NO OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) so you can't
embed any part of an office document into OneNote. If you copy and paste
almost anything into OneNote it looses almost all formatting. You can
paste things as a picture but this can't be edited or searched. It looks
good in a demo but it is practically worthless. Many will be tempted to
reply saying that you can use the 'Microsoft Office Document Image
Writer' printer driver to print Office files to OneNote. All this really
does is print them to a .TIFF file that can be imported into OneNOte as
yet another picture. Yes you can annotate on top of it but nothing of the
document can be searched or edited.

While OneNote can create Outlook tasks, it is a one way operation.
GoBinder 2005 will do two way synchronization of calendar, task, and
contact items with Outlook. GoBinder's copy and paste functionality is
currently as abysmal as OneNote's and it doesn't have OLE either but it
still has better Office integration than OneNote does.

RV, OneNote is part of the Office "family" and not a part of any suite of
Office products. It is more like a nephew by a cousin's second marriage at
this point. I would look further at GoBinder, quite honestly, since it is
written specifically with Tablets in mind (both product do work on Tablets
and desktops/laptops), but I've found GoBinder to be very adaptable. You
can get information on GoBinder 2005, with a free trial download, here:
http://www.gobinder.com/gobinder2005.aspx

One of the really neat things about GoBinder beside the integration with
Blackboard use on college and university campuses, is you can "print" to
GoBinder from Word or a PDF file for instance and the file enters GoBinder
in native form to be edited with Ink on the Tablet PC. Both OneNote and
GoBinder include licenses allowing the installation on both a Tablet PC and
another computer, so you could work on your thesis on a desktop as well as
the Tablet in class. 8-)

If you have further OneNote questions, you might wish to post them to the
microsoft.public.onenote newsgroup when the Microsoft developers monitor the
discussions quite closely. GoBinder also has a discussion/support forum
hosted here: http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=58 where
the devs hang out to directly answer user questions.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"RV" <RV@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I just read some of the threads on GoBinder and I also went to the
website. As a student, I must say that it does sound very interesting. I
just had one concern though. My gateway convertible came with Microsoft
OneNote and this program seems to be pretty top of the line, and its part of
Microsoft's Office Suite so its compatible with all of the other Microsoft
programs. How integrable is GoBinder with MS Office and One Note?

this won't help in terms of Office integration, but it circumvents many
of the fundamental compatibility issues by creating a persistent,
web-based personal data store. http://www.flynote.com . worth a try.

Does anyone know if it is possible to create multi line TO Do Items in
Go Binder? I have not been able to figure out how to do this and one
line is just too short for some items, It would make a difference in my
deciding to buy. I am currently evaluating the product.

Terri

Terri, you may want to visit the support forum over at the Tablet PC Buzz:
http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=58 There are a lot of
active GoBinder users over there.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


<terriblue******.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know if it is possible to create multi line TO Do Items in
> Go Binder? I have not been able to figure out how to do this and one
> line is just too short for some items, It would make a difference in my
> deciding to buy. I am currently evaluating the product.
>
> Terri
>

To answer my own question... I was reading the manual to try to figure
this out. The best solution I can find is to use the TIP to enter the
TODO item as text. I tried entering a really long TODO in text and
found that it seemed to get cut off, but then I found out that you can
add notes about a TODO by hovering the pen over the item and clicking
the arrow to the right. When I did this I found that my entire TODO
appeared at the top of the detail page, and I could have entered more
detail in the notes area if I had wanted to. So I guess I can live
with the shortended TODO in the one line listing. I suppose the most
important thing would be to make the first part of the items
descriptive enough.

Terri