![]() ![]() I am not sure that OneNote is derived from Aha!Inkwriter, but it certainly seemed familiar to me. I (Andy Glew) might have owned a house at address 100_Harmony_Lane from 2002-2004, but Joe_Seller owned it before me from 1995-2002 (as I learned from unpaid bill collectors).Īnyway - Microsoft bought Aha!Inkwriter. Also, InfoCentral allowed all links to have metadata and be timespans - e.g. In particular, I remember that you could "shake the graph" so that your current node, which might have been many levels deep as you originally traversed it, now appeared at the top of the graph. InfoCentral allowed Aha!Inkwriter files (pages) to be organized in a very flexible manner, with typed links between them. I can't remember if it also OCR'ed screen snips - I wasn't using them as much back then. Aha!Inkwriter was a free-form notetaking app, with OCR of handwriting. Many years earlier, circa 1994, I used a tool called Aha!Inkwriter to capture, in conjunction with a database called InfoCentral. it is possible that OneNote seemed more familiar to me. I WANTED to use EverNote, since I had heard so much about it - and, I must admit, as a longtime UNIX and then Linux user, I was somewhat prejudiced against Microsoft.īut. I compare OneNote and EverNote regulurly - when I started and every few years since. But now my web.research skills are much improved. I have since switched back to a job much like my previous job - computer architect. ![]() Because of this, I grew to depend on OneNote's ability to OCR text & search in bitmaps, etc. If it is iomportant to see the formatting and pretty pictures, screen snipping is basic truth. Eventually figured out a workflow using OneNote, falling back to using screen snipped bitmaps if simply selecting text was not working well. Copying stuff off web pages into other tools has so many problems with formatting. I tried copy/pasting selected stuff on web pages into (a) EMACS text files, with image support, (b) Word, (c) wikis like Mediawiki, Trax, Confluence, etc. New job, required much more web "research" than previous jobs. ![]() I started using OneNote in late 2009 / early 2010. not necessarily priority order, although history becomes a priority once you have legacy, making it a pain to switch over.
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