Do you OneNote?
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Haven't given it much thought; the Home screen mentions shopping lists and such. Been working on a project that references multiple pdfs; with tables referencing other tables and appendixes and procedure paragraphs. Mentally exhausting. Started "snipping" everything using Snipping Tool; pasting it into OneNote however I wanted. Access times reduced to a minimum; a new, more relaxing study experience.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Haven't given it much thought; the Home screen mentions shopping lists and such. Been working on a project that references multiple pdfs; with tables referencing other tables and appendixes and procedure paragraphs. Mentally exhausting. Started "snipping" everything using Snipping Tool; pasting it into OneNote however I wanted. Access times reduced to a minimum; a new, more relaxing study experience.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
I use OneNote to keep track of SQL snippets (especially ones that were painful to write), server lists, phone numbers, etc. As you said, access is quick.
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I use OneNote to keep track of SQL snippets (especially ones that were painful to write), server lists, phone numbers, etc. As you said, access is quick.
SQL, yes. I usually wind up with test scripts called test1, test2 ... and forget what they were for.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Haven't given it much thought; the Home screen mentions shopping lists and such. Been working on a project that references multiple pdfs; with tables referencing other tables and appendixes and procedure paragraphs. Mentally exhausting. Started "snipping" everything using Snipping Tool; pasting it into OneNote however I wanted. Access times reduced to a minimum; a new, more relaxing study experience.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
I have, years ago for a couple of projects, but not since. It's funny you mention it though as I was considering it again after having lost a half-dozen queries (work in progress) pasted into Notepad windows when the power was briefly interrupted. (it's also happened due to a windows update...you'd think I'd have learned by now!) Having an autosave/recovery would have been nice! From what I remember, it was fantastic...organize by tabs and freeform placement of anything you want, all self-contained. I really don't know why I stopped using it???:confused: I've also recently started using the Snipping Tool instead of Ctrl+PS and cropping in paint...much easier. I recently found that it has a delay feature to enable you do things like show a dropdown list for a screen grab.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
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Haven't given it much thought; the Home screen mentions shopping lists and such. Been working on a project that references multiple pdfs; with tables referencing other tables and appendixes and procedure paragraphs. Mentally exhausting. Started "snipping" everything using Snipping Tool; pasting it into OneNote however I wanted. Access times reduced to a minimum; a new, more relaxing study experience.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
I use OneNote all the time at work and for personal. Mine saves to the cloud (OneDrive) which is nice because I can then access my notes from any device.
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SQL, yes. I usually wind up with test scripts called test1, test2 ... and forget what they were for.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
Among other things, I support an ancient system that was not well designed. I have to execute a fair number of ad hoc queries, and some of the techniques I've developed to navigate around the poor design are NOT anything I'd care to figure out twice. So I have my queries saved in well named tabs, and have comments with each query.
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I have, years ago for a couple of projects, but not since. It's funny you mention it though as I was considering it again after having lost a half-dozen queries (work in progress) pasted into Notepad windows when the power was briefly interrupted. (it's also happened due to a windows update...you'd think I'd have learned by now!) Having an autosave/recovery would have been nice! From what I remember, it was fantastic...organize by tabs and freeform placement of anything you want, all self-contained. I really don't know why I stopped using it???:confused: I've also recently started using the Snipping Tool instead of Ctrl+PS and cropping in paint...much easier. I recently found that it has a delay feature to enable you do things like show a dropdown list for a screen grab.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
kmoorevs wrote:
It's funny you mention it though as I was considering it again after having lost a half-dozen queries (work in progress) pasted into Notepad windows when the power was briefly interrupted.
For this purpose, consider use Notepad++ instead of Notepad. NP++ saves all windows, so if the app is terminated, the next time it opens it will load all previous windows. It also has a large number of plugins available.
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Haven't given it much thought; the Home screen mentions shopping lists and such. Been working on a project that references multiple pdfs; with tables referencing other tables and appendixes and procedure paragraphs. Mentally exhausting. Started "snipping" everything using Snipping Tool; pasting it into OneNote however I wanted. Access times reduced to a minimum; a new, more relaxing study experience.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
I keep setting up organizations of items in OneNote, but then find ways that are easier for me to use and never go back to those organizations. Quite often, the reorganization involves an Access database. But for PDF studies, what you are doing sounds good.
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Haven't given it much thought; the Home screen mentions shopping lists and such. Been working on a project that references multiple pdfs; with tables referencing other tables and appendixes and procedure paragraphs. Mentally exhausting. Started "snipping" everything using Snipping Tool; pasting it into OneNote however I wanted. Access times reduced to a minimum; a new, more relaxing study experience.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
I use OneNote to keep track of my all activities. :)
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Haven't given it much thought; the Home screen mentions shopping lists and such. Been working on a project that references multiple pdfs; with tables referencing other tables and appendixes and procedure paragraphs. Mentally exhausting. Started "snipping" everything using Snipping Tool; pasting it into OneNote however I wanted. Access times reduced to a minimum; a new, more relaxing study experience.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
I just started using OneNote for Electronic reference materials and am liking it.
The less you need, the more you have. Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally. JaxCoder.com
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Haven't given it much thought; the Home screen mentions shopping lists and such. Been working on a project that references multiple pdfs; with tables referencing other tables and appendixes and procedure paragraphs. Mentally exhausting. Started "snipping" everything using Snipping Tool; pasting it into OneNote however I wanted. Access times reduced to a minimum; a new, more relaxing study experience.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
An interesting feature of OneNote is taking voice notes during meetings, see: tools-for-taking-notes-and-recording-audio-synchronized-during-meetings~microsoft-onenote[^]
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Haven't given it much thought; the Home screen mentions shopping lists and such. Been working on a project that references multiple pdfs; with tables referencing other tables and appendixes and procedure paragraphs. Mentally exhausting. Started "snipping" everything using Snipping Tool; pasting it into OneNote however I wanted. Access times reduced to a minimum; a new, more relaxing study experience.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
I think OneNote had been out for a solid decade before I finally "got it". Before that I couldn't see what the point was. Nowadays I more or less use it as a technical daily diary, if you will. A log book might not be an inaccurate way to describe it. For work, I have a chronological notebook where I create a new page for each workday. Some days a page might end up containing a single bullet point; on other days it might be as long a 5 printed pages (if I were to print it out). Embedding links to external resources (Ctrl-K) is useful much beyond a favorites/bookmarks list. If I had to look up some obscure command with non-obvious arguments, it'll go there. If I had to change some important settings on some server, I'll take a screenshot (possibly writing down how to get to that hidden dialog box). I might include some debug output. Every pull request I submit gets its own link pasted. Any important note that doesn't belong in a source code file is probably going to end up on a page as well. It ended up being somewhat of an unorganized scrapbook (save for the fact that everything is sorted by day), but it's still extremely useful. Hardly a day ever goes by where I don't look up something I wrote down some time ago. The search results window could be better (I've never found the holy grail to organizing these tidbits into logical categories), but still, it's been incredibly valuable.
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I have, years ago for a couple of projects, but not since. It's funny you mention it though as I was considering it again after having lost a half-dozen queries (work in progress) pasted into Notepad windows when the power was briefly interrupted. (it's also happened due to a windows update...you'd think I'd have learned by now!) Having an autosave/recovery would have been nice! From what I remember, it was fantastic...organize by tabs and freeform placement of anything you want, all self-contained. I really don't know why I stopped using it???:confused: I've also recently started using the Snipping Tool instead of Ctrl+PS and cropping in paint...much easier. I recently found that it has a delay feature to enable you do things like show a dropdown list for a screen grab.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
What, no UPS?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Haven't given it much thought; the Home screen mentions shopping lists and such. Been working on a project that references multiple pdfs; with tables referencing other tables and appendixes and procedure paragraphs. Mentally exhausting. Started "snipping" everything using Snipping Tool; pasting it into OneNote however I wanted. Access times reduced to a minimum; a new, more relaxing study experience.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
I don't even know WTF it is, except that I have to kill it every time I use a new PC because it wants to illegally occupy my desktop with an inane widget.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Haven't given it much thought; the Home screen mentions shopping lists and such. Been working on a project that references multiple pdfs; with tables referencing other tables and appendixes and procedure paragraphs. Mentally exhausting. Started "snipping" everything using Snipping Tool; pasting it into OneNote however I wanted. Access times reduced to a minimum; a new, more relaxing study experience.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I think OneNote had been out for a solid decade before I finally "got it". Before that I couldn't see what the point was. Nowadays I more or less use it as a technical daily diary, if you will. A log book might not be an inaccurate way to describe it. For work, I have a chronological notebook where I create a new page for each workday. Some days a page might end up containing a single bullet point; on other days it might be as long a 5 printed pages (if I were to print it out). Embedding links to external resources (Ctrl-K) is useful much beyond a favorites/bookmarks list. If I had to look up some obscure command with non-obvious arguments, it'll go there. If I had to change some important settings on some server, I'll take a screenshot (possibly writing down how to get to that hidden dialog box). I might include some debug output. Every pull request I submit gets its own link pasted. Any important note that doesn't belong in a source code file is probably going to end up on a page as well. It ended up being somewhat of an unorganized scrapbook (save for the fact that everything is sorted by day), but it's still extremely useful. Hardly a day ever goes by where I don't look up something I wrote down some time ago. The search results window could be better (I've never found the holy grail to organizing these tidbits into logical categories), but still, it's been incredibly valuable.
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Haven't given it much thought; the Home screen mentions shopping lists and such. Been working on a project that references multiple pdfs; with tables referencing other tables and appendixes and procedure paragraphs. Mentally exhausting. Started "snipping" everything using Snipping Tool; pasting it into OneNote however I wanted. Access times reduced to a minimum; a new, more relaxing study experience.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
I dabbled in OneNote when it first came out and never quite found my groove with it. For some reason text files and word docs with screenshots pasted in and saving in folders was just more "natural" for my cluttered mind. At work, early in my dev career, a couple of dev projects were "documented" in a notebook but it wasn't until about 7-8 years ago that something just clicked. A work project turned into a personal project management and meeting notes tool.. then a digital whiteboard (as i ended up losing my whiteboard at my cubicle.) Then a cheatsheet repository for all devops functions of a specific product I was lead dev on.. Then it bled into my personal life.. Todo lists, shopping lists, travel notes and planning, hobby stuff, even became a personal blog like journal for an adventure I took. I jumped on the bandwagon with EverNote for a year or so back before the pandemic and it just didnt click the same for me as OneNote.. So I migrated the notes over and have my OneNote notebooks all saved onto OneDrive so I can freely access them on any device. Still a full representation of my cluttered mind.. But at least I evolved a little from files in folders on a USB drive. Which I still do sometimes.
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kmoorevs wrote:
It's funny you mention it though as I was considering it again after having lost a half-dozen queries (work in progress) pasted into Notepad windows when the power was briefly interrupted.
For this purpose, consider use Notepad++ instead of Notepad. NP++ saves all windows, so if the app is terminated, the next time it opens it will load all previous windows. It also has a large number of plugins available.
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For NP++ - I don't believe the auto-save windows is turned on by default. It's in the Backups section of Preferences called "Remember current session for next launch". It will remember new document tabs that are not saved.
Mike
I'm not talking about the auto-save, which I didn't turn on. I rarely use an auto-save feature in any application, as it is likely to save changes I don't want saved. The feature I mentioned is that all tabs are re-opened the next time NP++ is opened. If a file has unsaved changes, when closing the tab, NP++ prompts to save. NP++ saves each tab in a temporary area.
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Haven't given it much thought; the Home screen mentions shopping lists and such. Been working on a project that references multiple pdfs; with tables referencing other tables and appendixes and procedure paragraphs. Mentally exhausting. Started "snipping" everything using Snipping Tool; pasting it into OneNote however I wanted. Access times reduced to a minimum; a new, more relaxing study experience.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
ALl the time, from shopping list to to do task to quick notes.
