One Note 2007 Mobile sync sections

[ewgoforth]

Hello,

I used to use a Palm Pilot and Outlook Notes together very heavily. I
upgraded to a Motorola Q a year ago and it was better in almost every way,
except I could no longer sync notes.

I recently got looking at OneNote and saw that there was a tool that would
let me import all my old Outlook Notes. Now I'm then trying to view them on
my Windows Mobile 5 device.

I moved them all from my unfiled Notebook to the OneNote Mobile notebook. I
then created a section for each category of Notes. I then synced everything,
but it appears that the Windows Mobile One Note tool only synchronizes to the
first (Notes from Eric's Smartphone) section in the OneNote Mobile notebook.
It seems strange that it doesn't do the other sections in the OneNote Mobile
notebook.

I don't any awareness in One Note Mobile of sections at all, or am I missing
something?

-Eric

 

[David Olsen]

You are correct. By design, OneNote Mobile will only synch with one section
(usually named after the mobile device) in one notebook (named OneNote
Mobile)
This notebook is automatically created on first synch.

If one wanted to synch an existing notes page with a mobile device, that
page would need to be copied or moved to the section described above.

 

[ewgoforth]

Is there any way to search through notes in Mobile OneNote? Having a list of
300+ notes without any way to filter them makes it kinda useless.

-Eric

 

[David Olsen]

The best one can do is sort by either Date Modified or by Name.

One suggestion with over 300 notes would be to prefix the Name/Title field
with a classification code which will allow simpler navigation.

You could post this suggestion for more sophisticated filtering & searching
on OneNote Mobile in "Connect":
http://connect.microsoft.com/onenote/

 

[Sven]

Lets go in a different direction. The Motorola Q is a Smartphone, a class of
Windows Mobile device that does not have a touch screen. That flavor of the
OS did not include a MS Notes app, in it's Outlook counterparts. (But you
knew that) That's where you go look for third party Smartphone Notes. No
shortage of those.

http://www.syncdata.it/sphnotes.html

http://www.phatware.com/index.php?q=product/details/phatnotes-ou

Might be simpler than trying to squeeze the capability out of OneNote.

 

[ewgoforth]

I'll check those out. It would be cool if the OneNote Mobile had more of the
functionality of One Note Desktop. From what I've seen so far, the OneNote
Desktop is far superior to the Outlook Notes. Are there versions of One Note
Mobile that have more of these capabilities? Say if I upgraded to a Pocket
PC / phone (with a touch screen) or a Windows Mobile 6 phone?

-Eric

 

[Sven]

Nope, actually worse on a touch screen device, IMHO. Not any different in
actual functionality, but aggravating that OneNote Mobile doesn't support
ink on a touch screen. Yes that's right, you can't write on the screen in
OneNote Mobile. You can use other input methods like the pop up keyboard,
but not just scribble on the screen.

Don't know of any third party OneNote-ish (with syncing) offerings. OneNote
Mobile is a pocket version of OneNote as the other mobile versions of Office
are, or maybe were. Word, Excel and PowerPoint are getting better on the WM
platform, but they certainly aren't as feature full as their desktop
counterparts. Stands to reason, though, your WM device isn't a desktop.

Certainly OneNote Desktop has functionality over Outlook notes. That's like
comparing Excel to the calculator. Outlook Notes are sticky notes, though
some have built their life around those, both the virtual and the actual
ones If you are a big proponent of lots of little scraps of paper with
pearls of information on them, I think you will like PhatNotes.

I do believe there are some free form knowledge management type products for
the WM platform, but don't think there are any that specifically sync with
OneNote. You might try that sort of question in a 'pocketpc' newsgroup. The
community sites still use Microsoft.public.pocketpc, and
Microsoft.public.smartphone instead of any windows mobile naming convention.

 

[Barbra]

Nope, actually worse on a touch screen device, IMHO. Not any different in
actual functionality, but aggravating that OneNote Mobile doesn't support
ink on a touch screen. Yes that's right, you can't write on the screen in
OneNote Mobile. You can use other input methods like the pop up keyboard,
but not just scribble on the screen.

Don't know of any third party OneNote-ish (with syncing) offerings. OneNote
Mobile is a pocket version of OneNote as the other mobile versions of Office
are, or maybe were. Word, Excel and PowerPoint are getting better on the WM
platform, but they certainly aren't as feature full as their desktop
counterparts. Stands to reason, though, your WM device isn't a desktop.

Certainly OneNote Desktop has functionality over Outlook notes. That's like
comparing Excel to the calculator. Outlook Notes are sticky notes, though
some have built their life around those, both the virtual and the actual
ones If you are a big proponent of lots of little scraps of paper with
pearls of information on them, I think you will like PhatNotes.

I do believe there are some free form knowledge management type products for
the WM platform, but don't think there are any that specifically sync with
OneNote. You might try that sort of question in a 'pocketpc' newsgroup. The
community sites still use Microsoft.public.pocketpc, and
Microsoft.public.smartphone instead of any windows mobile naming convention.

 

[Barbra]

Nope, actually worse on a touch screen device, IMHO. Not any different in
actual functionality, but aggravating that OneNote Mobile doesn't support
ink on a touch screen. Yes that's right, you can't write on the screen in
OneNote Mobile. You can use other input methods like the pop up keyboard,
but not just scribble on the screen.

Don't know of any third party OneNote-ish (with syncing) offerings. OneNote
Mobile is a pocket version of OneNote as the other mobile versions of Office
are, or maybe were. Word, Excel and PowerPoint are getting better on the WM
platform, but they certainly aren't as feature full as their desktop
counterparts. Stands to reason, though, your WM device isn't a desktop.

Certainly OneNote Desktop has functionality over Outlook notes. That's like
comparing Excel to the calculator. Outlook Notes are sticky notes, though
some have built their life around those, both the virtual and the actual
ones If you are a big proponent of lots of little scraps of paper with
pearls of information on them, I think you will like PhatNotes.

I do believe there are some free form knowledge management type products for
the WM platform, but don't think there are any that specifically sync with
OneNote. You might try that sort of question in a 'pocketpc' newsgroup. The
community sites still use Microsoft.public.pocketpc, and
Microsoft.public.smartphone instead of any windows mobile naming convention.

 

[Barbra]

I am going into the third week of trying to sync my TMobile Dash and Onenote.
I used to have a Verizon Smartphone and it worked fine. I have Windows XP,
MS Office 2007 and OneNote 2007. Please tell me:
1. Can I sync info from my TMobile Dash to OneNotes on my computer?
2. Can I sync info from my OneNote 2007 on my laptop to my TMobile Dash?

This is so confusing to me, and I can't understand why it isn't working.

Barbra

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Barbra,
what's your question, please?

Rainald