Hi

Has anyone noticed that Microsoft Journal supports searching for text that
has been written on any angle (even upside down - how cool is that?!) but
most other applications like OneNote do not?

I like to write notes on angles (usually amendments) and the inability to
search for text on an angle in OneNote is really limiting which means that
I'll be using Journal for all my note taking for the foreseeable future -
despite it's "notepad" like feature-set ;(

-Tum

Hello Thong,
I have noticed this - but I think it's just how the application designers anticipated their users would like the system to behave. Journal is actually a bit amazing about how it works. You can write a word, flip the screen over and write the same word upside down. Then select both and convert to text and Journal will recognize both! Amazing!
OneNote just seems to be targeted differently. It seems to be a bigger application - not a scratch pad but more like the legal pad you want to be able to show to other people. Notes are arranged into nice columns, images and hyperlinks fit right in, and the top and side tab strips seem to give this app the weight that Notepad lacks. Personally, as cool as Journal is, it's just a toy compared to OneNote IMHO. I love OneNote. Did you know that you could record a conversation or lecture and take notes at the same time? When you select a note you took, the audio track will let you play what was being said at that exact moment, while you were writing? How cool is that!?!

-- Matt Ranlett
http://weblogs.cerkit.com/regularguys

> Hi
>
> Has anyone noticed that Microsoft Journal supports searching for text
> that has been written on any angle (even upside down - how cool is
> that?!) but most other applications like OneNote do not?
>
> I like to write notes on angles (usually amendments) and the inability
> to search for text on an angle in OneNote is really limiting which
> means that I'll be using Journal for all my note taking for the
> foreseeable future - despite it's "notepad" like feature-set ;(
>
> -Tum
>