Hi,

I'm a college student using OneNote on a tablet everyday.


<strong>-The Audio and Notes sync in OneNote can be better. A good model 
would be something similar to Livescribe pulse smartpen ( in terms of the way 
the notes are replayed).</strong>

In OneNote 2007, the audio is sync with my notes, ie the notes are 
highlighted as the audio plays. However, I realized that it only works well 
with typed notes and not-so-well with handwritten notes. For it to work 
better with handwritten notes, I have to write my notes in straight lines 
consciously and space my lines of words more because OneNote seems to group 
words into lines. It would highlight lines and lines of words as the audio 
plays.

In cases where my handwritten notes are all over the place (eg when drawing 
a mindmap), the highlighting of my notes by OneNote in the audio sync notes 
function tends to be arbitary--sometimes it highlights one clump of words and 
sometimes it just skips over another group of words. Hence, I think it's 
better to have the handwritten notes replayed stroke by stroke rather than 
highlighting while the audio is playing. Livescribe is already replaying the 
notes this way so I really hope Microsoft can take a look at it. 

The problem about Livescribe is that I have to write my notes on the special 
papers provided by them in order for the pen to work. This means I can't 
write stuff on the handouts given by my professor. A tablet coupled with 
OneNote would allow for more flexibility in this case.
 

- Ability to speed up the audio (say by 2x/3x/4x) with playback of the notes 
sped up accordingly as well.

I frequently speed up my recorded lectures and listen to it when I'm on the 
go. This is because this is just revision and it's too time-consuming to 
listen to the whole lecture again with the same speed. It would take up far 
too much time. Hence, it would be awesome if audio and notes sync can be sped 
up together just like the way we speed up a movie (ie audio together with the 
visuals). I suppose this function would be more difficult to implement?

Thanks a lot!

I understand that you don't really have a question, but a couple of 
suggestions for Microsoft. Perhaps you should create a Suggestion for 
Microsoft, and let other users vote for it. That would increase the chances 
of it being considered.
Thanks

"Petar Miljkovic" wrote:

> I understand that you don't really have a question, but a couple of 
> suggestions for Microsoft. Perhaps you should create a Suggestion for 
> Microsoft, and let other users vote for it. That would increase the chances 
> of it being considered.
> Thanks



Hi,

You are suggesting me to create a poll right? Do you mind teaching me how to 
create a poll in this forum? When I try to create a new thread, there don't 
seem to be an option for me to check in order to create a poll... 

Thanks.

Here is what I meant,
When you go to 
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.onenote
there is a drop down list '- Select a new post -'  from which you can select 
one of three options: Question, Suggestion for Microsoft and General comment.
Just select Suggestion for Microsoft and type in your suggestion.
Then, you will get Vote for this suggestion option right below your post 
(instead of  	Was this post helpful to you? ).
You can see an example of a suggestion here 
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.onenote&tid=3dfaa6c4-7058-4742-ad7c-0a505badb0f7&cat=&lang=&cr=&sloc=&p=1
Hope this helps.

Petar Miljkovic
 
> Hi,
> 
> You are suggesting me to create a poll right? Do you mind teaching me how to 
> create a poll in this forum? When I try to create a new thread, there don't 
> seem to be an option for me to check in order to create a poll... 
> 
> Thanks.