An unusual use for MS OneNote?
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Last year I scanned my roughly 2000 CD covers so I could catalogue them using a photo management system. I went for digiKam as it supported hierarchies of keywords - composer, genre, forces etc. - but I have now become frustrated, as the thumbnails are a fixed size, OK for a medium resolution screen, but too small on a high res screen, and too large on low res. Enter OneNote, courtesy of my Office 2010 Professional Plus! :~ 2010? A tightwad? Moi? ;) The CDs are organized in drawers, ranks and position in rank. CD 2F23-4 would be the second drawer, sixth rank, position 23 and is a four-disk set. With a notebook for each major genre - classical, jazz, folk etc. - a section for each rank, and a page for each CD the process is so simple it is unreal. Set up all the genres and sections you need, then in each section drag & drop each JPEG onto a new page, right-click and select 'Make text in image searchable' and job done. You can search at any level from all open notebooks down to a single page. The 'hits' are listed in page order on the right of the screen to click through. The filename of each JPEG is it's location, which I copy across as the OneNote page name. The beauty of the system versus digiKam is that images may be automatically or manually sized and the OCR means you don't need keywords. Also, in the old system I only keyworded the principal performance, and so if some Mozart piece was used as a CD filler after, say, a Beethoven work, it was unlocatable. No more! I have never touched OneNote before, but its adaptability is remarkable. Colour me impressed! :cool:
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Last year I scanned my roughly 2000 CD covers so I could catalogue them using a photo management system. I went for digiKam as it supported hierarchies of keywords - composer, genre, forces etc. - but I have now become frustrated, as the thumbnails are a fixed size, OK for a medium resolution screen, but too small on a high res screen, and too large on low res. Enter OneNote, courtesy of my Office 2010 Professional Plus! :~ 2010? A tightwad? Moi? ;) The CDs are organized in drawers, ranks and position in rank. CD 2F23-4 would be the second drawer, sixth rank, position 23 and is a four-disk set. With a notebook for each major genre - classical, jazz, folk etc. - a section for each rank, and a page for each CD the process is so simple it is unreal. Set up all the genres and sections you need, then in each section drag & drop each JPEG onto a new page, right-click and select 'Make text in image searchable' and job done. You can search at any level from all open notebooks down to a single page. The 'hits' are listed in page order on the right of the screen to click through. The filename of each JPEG is it's location, which I copy across as the OneNote page name. The beauty of the system versus digiKam is that images may be automatically or manually sized and the OCR means you don't need keywords. Also, in the old system I only keyworded the principal performance, and so if some Mozart piece was used as a CD filler after, say, a Beethoven work, it was unlocatable. No more! I have never touched OneNote before, but its adaptability is remarkable. Colour me impressed! :cool:
I was going to write something to catalogue my music - just to make it easier to find any specific song on whatever given media. Problem is, the media were records and cassettes and this was approx 1983. Somehow, I suspect the moment has now passed ...
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Last year I scanned my roughly 2000 CD covers so I could catalogue them using a photo management system. I went for digiKam as it supported hierarchies of keywords - composer, genre, forces etc. - but I have now become frustrated, as the thumbnails are a fixed size, OK for a medium resolution screen, but too small on a high res screen, and too large on low res. Enter OneNote, courtesy of my Office 2010 Professional Plus! :~ 2010? A tightwad? Moi? ;) The CDs are organized in drawers, ranks and position in rank. CD 2F23-4 would be the second drawer, sixth rank, position 23 and is a four-disk set. With a notebook for each major genre - classical, jazz, folk etc. - a section for each rank, and a page for each CD the process is so simple it is unreal. Set up all the genres and sections you need, then in each section drag & drop each JPEG onto a new page, right-click and select 'Make text in image searchable' and job done. You can search at any level from all open notebooks down to a single page. The 'hits' are listed in page order on the right of the screen to click through. The filename of each JPEG is it's location, which I copy across as the OneNote page name. The beauty of the system versus digiKam is that images may be automatically or manually sized and the OCR means you don't need keywords. Also, in the old system I only keyworded the principal performance, and so if some Mozart piece was used as a CD filler after, say, a Beethoven work, it was unlocatable. No more! I have never touched OneNote before, but its adaptability is remarkable. Colour me impressed! :cool:
FWIW, it took me nearly a decade of OneNote being available and included as part of Office before I finally found a good use for it. Now I can't really see myself without it. Your use is perhaps a bit unusual, but then, there's no "wrong" way to use it, I suppose.
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Last year I scanned my roughly 2000 CD covers so I could catalogue them using a photo management system. I went for digiKam as it supported hierarchies of keywords - composer, genre, forces etc. - but I have now become frustrated, as the thumbnails are a fixed size, OK for a medium resolution screen, but too small on a high res screen, and too large on low res. Enter OneNote, courtesy of my Office 2010 Professional Plus! :~ 2010? A tightwad? Moi? ;) The CDs are organized in drawers, ranks and position in rank. CD 2F23-4 would be the second drawer, sixth rank, position 23 and is a four-disk set. With a notebook for each major genre - classical, jazz, folk etc. - a section for each rank, and a page for each CD the process is so simple it is unreal. Set up all the genres and sections you need, then in each section drag & drop each JPEG onto a new page, right-click and select 'Make text in image searchable' and job done. You can search at any level from all open notebooks down to a single page. The 'hits' are listed in page order on the right of the screen to click through. The filename of each JPEG is it's location, which I copy across as the OneNote page name. The beauty of the system versus digiKam is that images may be automatically or manually sized and the OCR means you don't need keywords. Also, in the old system I only keyworded the principal performance, and so if some Mozart piece was used as a CD filler after, say, a Beethoven work, it was unlocatable. No more! I have never touched OneNote before, but its adaptability is remarkable. Colour me impressed! :cool:
Can you sort by color ? I wish I could do that .
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Last year I scanned my roughly 2000 CD covers so I could catalogue them using a photo management system. I went for digiKam as it supported hierarchies of keywords - composer, genre, forces etc. - but I have now become frustrated, as the thumbnails are a fixed size, OK for a medium resolution screen, but too small on a high res screen, and too large on low res. Enter OneNote, courtesy of my Office 2010 Professional Plus! :~ 2010? A tightwad? Moi? ;) The CDs are organized in drawers, ranks and position in rank. CD 2F23-4 would be the second drawer, sixth rank, position 23 and is a four-disk set. With a notebook for each major genre - classical, jazz, folk etc. - a section for each rank, and a page for each CD the process is so simple it is unreal. Set up all the genres and sections you need, then in each section drag & drop each JPEG onto a new page, right-click and select 'Make text in image searchable' and job done. You can search at any level from all open notebooks down to a single page. The 'hits' are listed in page order on the right of the screen to click through. The filename of each JPEG is it's location, which I copy across as the OneNote page name. The beauty of the system versus digiKam is that images may be automatically or manually sized and the OCR means you don't need keywords. Also, in the old system I only keyworded the principal performance, and so if some Mozart piece was used as a CD filler after, say, a Beethoven work, it was unlocatable. No more! I have never touched OneNote before, but its adaptability is remarkable. Colour me impressed! :cool:
I've always known that OneNote had potential, but really only ever used it a couple of times for managing some smaller projects. Good job on finding an elegant no-code solution! :thumbsup: As for cataloging music, I started a project a decade ago to do this with the intent being to build a website on the company webserver so that I could access my content across all devices from anywhere. Sort of a web-based personal jukebox. For album artwork, I let WMP do most of the work with a success rate of around 98% of finding the correct artwork via the 'Update Media' feature. Due to the way I setup the folders, I was able to link the album art to the album and store it in a database with all the tracks, artists, etc. using the MP3 tags. I lost interest in it when I was able to get a mobile device with decent storage and never finished the project. :sigh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
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I was going to write something to catalogue my music - just to make it easier to find any specific song on whatever given media. Problem is, the media were records and cassettes and this was approx 1983. Somehow, I suspect the moment has now passed ...
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FWIW, it took me nearly a decade of OneNote being available and included as part of Office before I finally found a good use for it. Now I can't really see myself without it. Your use is perhaps a bit unusual, but then, there's no "wrong" way to use it, I suppose.
I must confess that now I have started to use it, I can think of dozens of things I could have used it for in the last ten years. Pretty stupid of me really, not to check it out, as back in the late eighties I was a huge fan and heavy user of DOS Lotus Agenda for storing and linking random notes.
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I've always known that OneNote had potential, but really only ever used it a couple of times for managing some smaller projects. Good job on finding an elegant no-code solution! :thumbsup: As for cataloging music, I started a project a decade ago to do this with the intent being to build a website on the company webserver so that I could access my content across all devices from anywhere. Sort of a web-based personal jukebox. For album artwork, I let WMP do most of the work with a success rate of around 98% of finding the correct artwork via the 'Update Media' feature. Due to the way I setup the folders, I was able to link the album art to the album and store it in a database with all the tracks, artists, etc. using the MP3 tags. I lost interest in it when I was able to get a mobile device with decent storage and never finished the project. :sigh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
I am something of an audiophile, and I far prefer that music goes through as few stages as possible between the original and my ears. I didn't start to stream any music until I found a good source of classical music streamed in FLAC on the web. My system is rather analytical, and I can definitely hear the difference between that and MP3. As a result, I prefer to listen to the original CD, although I have ripped some my vinyl to FLAC. Thus a decent CD catalogue becomes essential.