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What I really don't understand about OneNote is the default to a white-board-like free form placement mode for text blocks. If you move it a little, accidentall

by jasonv 6y ago

What I really don't understand about OneNote is the default to a white-board-like free form placement mode for text blocks. If you move it a little, accidentally, it's not aligned the same as the other notes. This really put me off when I first started using it, and at a client site, it's really the only option. Otherwise, the organization system is something I've come to like/live-with, but still -- why the boxes that can be moved around? Is there a "turn off free-form placement" mode that I haven't found?

linuxdaemon 6y ago
That stupid placement thing is the "feature" I hate the most about onenote. Sometimes that is a benefit and the kind of note you'd want to make. But this seems like an easy fix of having two note types and being able to pick a global option of which way to default, and giving a drop-down option of what kind of note you wish to create if you wanted a one-off different than the default . Having it always be up to the user to place text frame objects is annoying when most of the time generic text notes is what you want. I personally don't care for the skeuomorphic organization of notebooks, tabs, and pages. But maybe that's just me :)
GekkePrutser 6y ago
Yes and if you type one backspace too many it will delete the whole box and place it at an off-centre location when you click to make a new one. There's a workaround though: Click on the title and then press enter and it'll create one again in the right spot :) But yeah OneNote is bloated, slow, has the typical MS UI boneheadedness... But it's what I have to work with at work :'(
- jabroni_salad 6y ago
  As much as I hate onenote, the ease of just hitting [super]+N to start a quick note is the lowest friction way to go from 'i need to write' to 'i am writing'. I've tried a few of the competitors but I guess I found my killer feature.
horizontech-dev 6y ago
exact reason why I moved from Onenote to Typora (for Mac) and Notability (for Ipad)

by jasonv 6y ago

linuxdaemon 6y ago

That stupid placement thing is the "feature" I hate the most about onenote. Sometimes that is a benefit and the kind of note you'd want to make. But this seems like an easy fix of having two note types and being able to pick a global option of which way to default, and giving a drop-down option of what kind of note you wish to create if you wanted a one-off different than the default . Having it always be up to the user to place text frame objects is annoying when most of the time generic text notes is what you want. I personally don't care for the skeuomorphic organization of notebooks, tabs, and pages. But maybe that's just me :)

GekkePrutser 6y ago

Yes and if you type one backspace too many it will delete the whole box and place it at an off-centre location when you click to make a new one. There's a workaround though: Click on the title and then press enter and it'll create one again in the right spot :) But yeah OneNote is bloated, slow, has the typical MS UI boneheadedness... But it's what I have to work with at work :'(

jabroni_salad 6y ago
As much as I hate onenote, the ease of just hitting [super]+N to start a quick note is the lowest friction way to go from 'i need to write' to 'i am writing'. I've tried a few of the competitors but I guess I found my killer feature.

horizontech-dev 6y ago

exact reason why I moved from Onenote to Typora (for Mac) and Notability (for Ipad)