I'm a law student trying to read as much as I can on my tablet so I
don't have to print things out. Combining Journal and OneNote together
is pretty good; I think it could be made better. I have an idea for an
application and would like to know if it's out there.

I have to read, highlight and mark up cases with lots of marginal
notes, along with "flags" next to important sections. I love OneNote's
ability to extract information you've flagged in your own writing to
one document, but I would like a program that can take text that you've
highlighted and flagged and combine it into a document.

The reason OneNote won't work is that printing to OneNote produces a
background image, and when you flag some highlighted text and get a
Notes Summary page, it just gets your highlighting, none of the
underlying text.

Reading on the tablet is not tons more efficient than reading on paper.
After I mark up sections, I still have to go back over my marked up
sections and make a list of the important points. Once I've marked
something as important it seems like a program should be able to put it
all in a list for me.

Does anyone know of anything that can do this?

You may have untapped capabilities in OneNote. Take a look at the OneNote
Log by Chris Pratley (he's one of the designers of the program) here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/default.aspx If you haven't already
viewed it, there is a very informative and educational "demo" of OneNote
which is quite thorough and 45 minutes in length here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...423061033.aspx

If you have further specific questions regarding OneNote usage, I'd suggest
you post to the microsoft.public.onenote newsgroup. Not only does Pratley
read and post quite often over there, but the OneNote MVPs are also around
all the time to assist.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"phancy" <pdedge******.com> wrote in message
news:1114966068.503769.81670@o13g2000cwo.googlegro ups.com...
> I'm a law student trying to read as much as I can on my tablet so I
> don't have to print things out. Combining Journal and OneNote together
> is pretty good; I think it could be made better. I have an idea for an
> application and would like to know if it's out there.
>
> I have to read, highlight and mark up cases with lots of marginal
> notes, along with "flags" next to important sections. I love OneNote's
> ability to extract information you've flagged in your own writing to
> one document, but I would like a program that can take text that you've
> highlighted and flagged and combine it into a document.
>
> The reason OneNote won't work is that printing to OneNote produces a
> background image, and when you flag some highlighted text and get a
> Notes Summary page, it just gets your highlighting, none of the
> underlying text.
>
> Reading on the tablet is not tons more efficient than reading on paper.
> After I mark up sections, I still have to go back over my marked up
> sections and make a list of the important points. Once I've marked
> something as important it seems like a program should be able to put it
> all in a list for me.
>
> Does anyone know of anything that can do this?
>

This would be relatively easy to do in Word, but it's odd that there doesn't
seem to be an easy way to do it in OneNote...

Cheers
Ken

--
Blog: www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/
Web: www.adopenstatic.com

"Chris H." <winxpnews********.com> wrote in message
news:uf4%23ORnTFHA.2908@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
: You may have untapped capabilities in OneNote. Take a look at the OneNote
: Log by Chris Pratley (he's one of the designers of the program) here:
: http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/default.aspx If you haven't already
: viewed it, there is a very informative and educational "demo" of OneNote
: which is quite thorough and 45 minutes in length here:
: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...423061033.aspx
:
: If you have further specific questions regarding OneNote usage, I'd
suggest
: you post to the microsoft.public.onenote newsgroup. Not only does Pratley
: read and post quite often over there, but the OneNote MVPs are also around
: all the time to assist.
: --
: Chris H.
: Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
: Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
: Associate Expert
: Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
:
:
: "phancy" <pdedge******.com> wrote in message
: news:1114966068.503769.81670@o13g2000cwo.googlegro ups.com...
: > I'm a law student trying to read as much as I can on my tablet so I
: > don't have to print things out. Combining Journal and OneNote together
: > is pretty good; I think it could be made better. I have an idea for an
: > application and would like to know if it's out there.
: >
: > I have to read, highlight and mark up cases with lots of marginal
: > notes, along with "flags" next to important sections. I love OneNote's
: > ability to extract information you've flagged in your own writing to
: > one document, but I would like a program that can take text that you've
: > highlighted and flagged and combine it into a document.
: >
: > The reason OneNote won't work is that printing to OneNote produces a
: > background image, and when you flag some highlighted text and get a
: > Notes Summary page, it just gets your highlighting, none of the
: > underlying text.
: >
: > Reading on the tablet is not tons more efficient than reading on paper.
: > After I mark up sections, I still have to go back over my marked up
: > sections and make a list of the important points. Once I've marked
: > something as important it seems like a program should be able to put it
: > all in a list for me.
: >
: > Does anyone know of anything that can do this?
: >
:
: