Saved By The Microsoft OneNote

Published 27 January 06 01:00 PM | Jason Looney 

In this post I would like to address Microsoft OneNote directly. 

Hi Microsoft OneNote, my name is Jason.  I'm the one who's always using you.  I keep my meeting notes in you, my blog ideas in you, and those really dark thoughts about the Mr. Clean guy in you.  Hi.

I'll cut to the chase.  You need to get off your ass and do something when I hit Ctrl+S.  I realize you're always saving things in the background and that you don't have a Save button and that you are saving me work by not making me hit Save.  But OneNote, your predecessors TRAINED me to hit that Ctrl+S.   They couldn't do auto-save.  They didn't have versioning or disaster recovery.  They put the onus on ME to hit Ctrl+S as often as I could.

Your parent company has me trained like a lab monkey, and now you have the gall to sit and quietly ignore me when I press Ctrl+S??  Come on!  After all the Ctrl+S'ing I've done in my days, you owe me.

So do something.  Anything.  Go back up a document or something.  Optimize one of your INDICES.  Find a movie I’d like on the Internet.  Make me some coffee.  If nothing else, just say something.  Something nice.

 Ctrl+Z = Undo
 Ctrl+A = Select all
 Ctrl+S = "Thank you, Jason."

Is it too much to ask?

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# Andrew W said on January 30, 2006 4:40 PM:
Well said!

Though, admittedly, my muscle-memory is such that I periodically type Alt-F, S... I'm not finding the Password Protection sidebar much more useful than simply getting no response... ;-)
# mike said on January 30, 2006 4:43 PM:
This is SO TRUE! I do exactly the same thing as Andrew (a key combination that works, afaik, in every Windows app) and every single time I think "Huh?" If you ask me (not that you did), the OneNote people need to be a little more cognizant about the quasi-standard set of Office menu shortcuts ...
# TrackBack said on February 23, 2006 10:48 AM:
# nick said on March 17, 2007 1:39 AM:

hi...good site.

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