Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 09:06:02 CDT 2014
Steve, Actually, I use OneNote not *as* a development editor, but more like a library. I have NoteBooks for several programming languages such as VBA and Javascript and SQL, each of which has sections such as DAO and ADO and Strings in the case of VBA, and each of these sections has a collection of pages containing one function or group of related functions per page. This approach has enabled me to save a lot of code into an organized library; in the case of VBA, the notebook contains a lot of code posted by various listers on the AccessD list. OneNote is also terrific for the mundane aspects of a development project: meeting notes, telephone conversations, subjects to research, hours worked, etc. Everything is all in one place, all loaded at once as soon as that notebook is opened. No more trying to remember what was said in a phone call a week or two ago: as long as my notes taken at the time of the call were accurate (Skype and a headset enable me to type during the call, rather than afterwards). Arthur P.S. OneNote is excellent for non-work-related topics such as Recipes, too. My sister-in-law once called me asking for ideas for new recipes -- I sent her my OneNote book containing several hundred recipes, all organized by category (chicken, beef, soups, vegetarian, etc.) Almost all of these were pasted from emails sent to me by email from recipes.com and elsewhere. On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Steve Erbach <erbachs at gmail.com> wrote: > Arthur, > > I've been using OneNote for a year or so at work. I remembered being very > puzzled by the lack of a search-and-replace capability. I spent time > looking for it and searching for solutions on-line. It hasn't hampered me > too much, but it's odd. > > I certainly like it for note taking, list making, idea starting, and > organizing snippets and emails and web page clips. > > It's one of those things that you just have to use to discover its > usefulness. E.g., the "Recent Edits" feature. I stumbled on that one and > it's quite useful. I wish there were something like that for development, > say, where one might not remember every single class or module that one > changed in the past x days. > > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com > >wrote: > > > In my opinion, among Microsoft's plethora of software offerings, OneNote > is > > an unsung hero. I love this program and consider it indispensable. > > > > MS has now made it available for free to Windows and Mac users. You can > > read about it here: > > > > > > > http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-delivers-free-onenote-for-mac-and-windows-7000027378/#ftag=RSS14dc6a9 > > > > -- > > Arthur > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > -- > Regards, > > Steve Erbach > Neenah, WI > http://www.NeenahPolitics.com > http://www.TheTownCrank.com > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Arthur