4/10/2023 0 Comments Equil note onenote![]() ![]() Just forward an email to and follow the set-up instructions. You can simply send any email right into your notes. But they need to do more to tear down those walls.You may already be copying and pasting emails into OneNote, but this isn’t needed. Microsoft – via Scoble’s evangelism and a general trend towards better transparency – does appear to ‘get’ blogs, and Pratley when he was posting more frequently was an excellent indication of this. This was a great augmentation to the impersonal beta emails I spoke of but the problem was that it can’t match the real time nature of the email interchange. Update: I should have mentioned, because I subscribed to his blog when he was posting frequently (unsubbed because the posts came less and less frequently), that Chris Pratley of the OneNote team has a blog here where he did post on many of the decisions behind certain features. But I’d much rather be too open than too closed at this point. It’s an idea fraught with issues, yes – how does it scale? feedback quality varies, etc. What’s the takeaway? Seems to me that every ISV should think about mechanisms for tearing down the barriers between their developers and the folks that run the code. I heard similar comments at a Sun event in Burlington last week, where James Dobson from Dartmouth spoke glowingly of getting feedback on a bug report directly from the Solaris kernel developers. Now this is but one example, and I wouldn’t try to make the case that this single MS Beta program was indicative of their larger efforts, but it did illustrate, once again, the value of transparency. I see the acceptance/rejection of my suggestions and the rationale behind them, rather than not having any idea why my requested features didn’t make it into OneNote I received feedback/pushback directly from the developer in real time, versus no real feedback from my OneNote suggestionsģ. I gave feedback to the actual developer(s), as opposed to an impersonal web surveyĢ. Contrasting my Tomboy experience with the Microsoft OneNote beta program – anyone’s who’s talked to me about OneNote knows I love that application – is instructive. Basically I’m a glorified tester – willing to try new software and provide feedback in return for functionality and early access to an application.īut it was interesting to me in that I participated in what amounts to the equivalent program with Microsoft’s OneNote product (please note, however, that the programs themselves are not comparable). None of this is news, of course – this same scenario is repeated thousands of time every day. Installed beautifully, and I’m using it as my note-taker for the moment.Īnd that’s the beauty of the open source model things happen quickly and transparently. What do I find? Updated version of the application with the hard requirement removed, posted at 10:29 AM, Tuesday. Hopped my train down to NYC, spent Tuesday at Sun’s event there, and managed to sneak a few minutes of free time in to check my email using the W’s Wi-Fi. So I submitted that to the list at 11:03 AM Monday and figured I’d check back in later. ![]() Problem was, there was a hard requirement in the new version for a spell-checking widget that I didn’t have the right version of so the new package wouldn’t compile for me. ![]() Come in Monday morning to find that a fix was posted at 2:32 AM (about 5 hrs later) by the primary developer, Alex Graveley. Given that it’s a 0.1 version of the app, I didn’t think much of it – just submitted a bug notice via email last Sunday at 9:31 PM and figured I’d be waiting for a while. So I’ve been checking out Tomboy, a lightweight Mono based note-taking application for Linux and was initially pleased with the functionality, only to have it kick out an unhandled exception error and not run after a reboot. ![]()
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