OneNote on U3 USB Flash Memory

[Ilias]

Is there any way to run OneNote on a U3 USB Flash Memory? Are there any plans
to make this possible in the future? It would be a great develoopment!

 

[Amos Soma]

Yes there is. I do this now. With ON 2007 (don't know about 2003), ON keeps
all your notes in its own private cache. You can also specify that you want
to store your notes someone else, in addition to its own cache. In my case,
I have a 2G USB memory stick (Drive E) that I've told ON to store all my
notebooks to. When my USB memory stick is not installed, I can still use ON
normally because all my changes are stored in its local cache. When I insert
my memory stick, ON immediately updates the memory stick and writes all
changes there. Very slick.

Amos.

 

[Ilias]

Thank you Amos.
One question though: this, from what I understand, stores all my notes on
the USB key. But what about running ON from my USB key on a computer where ON
is not installed... i.e. install ON on the U3 enabled USB key and take ON
program and notes everywhere with me?

Thanks,
Ilias

 

[Patrick Schmid]

No, this is not possible. As the other poster has pointed out, you can
keep your notebooks on a USB stick easily with 2007, but you cannot run
the actual program from a USB stick.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Ilias]

Thank you! It would be nice to see this in the future though!!!
Ilias

 

[Amos Soma]

I see I may have mis-interpreted your question. You seem to be asking if you
can actually install ON on a USB memory device. I highly doubt this is
possible because of registry entries that ON probably makes on the machine
it is installed.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Ilias in (e-mail address removed) shared
these words of wisdom:

Thank you! It would be nice to see this in the future though!!!

I don't think that this will be possible.
OneNote has become a rather complex application meanwhile.
And it needs quite some entries in the Registry.

As long as there will not be something like a Registry addendum on a
removable medium, IMO it will not be possible to run todays'
applications just from a stick.

The good old days*) when one could run a fully blown wordprocessor
like WordStar on one 360KB floppy or a complex database system built
with dBASE from two 360KB floppies are long gone ...

Rainald
*) Remember the good old days when the air was clean and sex was dirty
.... <gbg>

 

[Keith]

If you want to do this I would suggest trashing MS OneNote, since MS is very
short sited these days, and go to a product that does which is Treepad.

I use treepad for my knowledge base, project management, Motorcycle trip
information, etc and it runs on U3 usb drive and your pc.

http://www.treepad.com/

You are right if MS would allow this software to be on a U3 drive, which
they could if they wanted to but you know $$$$$, that would be a great thing
and sell more of their product.

Anyway just a suggestion take a look at treepad and see what you think

Keith

 

[Rainald Taesler]

If you want to do this I would suggest trashing MS OneNote, since MS
is very short sited these days, and go to a product that does which
is Treepad.

I use treepad for my knowledge base, project management, Motorcycle
trip information, etc and it runs on U3 usb drive and your pc.

http://www.treepad.com/

You are right if MS would allow this software to be on a U3 drive,
which they could if they wanted to but you know $$$$$, that would be
a great thing and sell more of their product.

Anyway just a suggestion take a look at treepad and see what you think

I did not yet really use "Treepad", only checked there site several
times.

What I saw did not really convince me and I will not drop OneNote.

But there is a way to use OneNote from a stick and/or an external HDD:
It does not work with U3. But there's other - better - things besides
U3!!
Using Ceedo and its companion, the Argo installer, one can install
OneNote in the stick/HDD and run it from there.

There are several postings on this issue in the newsgroup, just search
fro Ceedo.

Rainald