Paul Hartland
paul.hartland at googlemail.com
Wed Mar 19 11:33:09 CDT 2014
Hmmmm that sounds like a good idea Arthur, I am forever throwing code which I have found useful etc into notepad and saving it, but then when I want it I can't find it or in the case of the last changing of PC's decided that I would delete it, well think I has as can't find it anywhere and since I have been out of work for a year I can't remember hardly any of the code I had there and yes I hardly ever make backups (as he hears the cursing at him lol) and the only simple one's I can remember are silly little functions called HG_ON, HG_OFF for example to turn the hourglass on and off and maybe change the mouse pointer, I had some code I had added to every so often for proper propercase to take into account Mc, Mac and apostrophes etc but all gone and as trying to learn vb.net now (yes I know, only just trying to learn it now) I was thinking of starting to make a class or classes of all the useful functions I could think of and storing them that way. Paul On 19 March 2014 14:06, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Paul Hartland paul.hartland at googlemail.com