Marty

I mailed you privately via Gmail about this but got no reply so I am going to try this route

Long story short – ever since I upgraded to MS Office 2010 Pro (great move) my DROE short cut keys don’t work – the one I most use (the date/time stamp Wn – N) now opens a new section in OneNote and puts the time stamp in a page title.

Has the ever useful DROE tool ever been upgraded for MS Office 2010?

good luck from sunny Ireland

Pablo

Just checking in to see if you’ve created an update to the DROE tool that will allow the keystrokes of Windows+N to properly record a dated note in the designated DROE page – as opposed to the creation of a SideNote in OneNote 2010. Hate this new function after upgrading from ‘07 to ‘10. Miss the DROE tool! Regrets if you’ve already posted a solution … just haven’t seen it.

-B

Wander:

I really want to like evernote because it has some features that one note does not, but I find the layout really unintuitive to use…

The layouts in the two tools are definitely different. The thing I like about the Evernote layout is that you can quickly sort and/or filter long lists of notes by different columns. With OneNote 2007, some of sections were getting cluttered with long list of page tabs. Hopefully I’ll be able to try ON2010 in a few months to see if it is any better in that respect.

-Carl

I am surprised that people have trouble with loading onenote, because I have the opposite problem. Onenote loads quickly on startup and evernote takes forever. I have trouble with clipping too, it’s very slow in evernote, I don’t know why. I like onenote for lists and compilations of info, such as info for a trip, etc. but I like evernote for storing whole webpages that I want to refer to later. I’m sort of using both right now trying to figure out which to use as the main note taking. I was lucky that I got onenote free with my work office suite.

I use different notebooks/folders (color coded) for different things like projects, software have v. desired and tracking keys and serial numbers, SAP transactions and source data attributes (and meanings), etc.

OneNote (two thumbs up) and MobilerNote on the iDevices!!

-Carl

Thanks,
Don

-Carl

thanks for the quick reply! I am using OneNote 2007 with Windows 7.

Best regards
Filipe

This is strange, I have never heard of this behavior before… Which version of OneNote are you using, 2007 or 2010?

-Carl

great tool – I have just set it up, and it is extremely handy!

I only have a small issue when hitting Win+n. I am using the tool with onenote which opens alright but asks me the following before it actually opens the right page: “Do you want to open the “ORG” notebook in OneNote (recommended) or just open the “Inbox” section from within it?”
When I hit the “Open Section” button, it works alright, but when I hit the “Open Notebook” button, a second link to the same notebook appears on the navigation bar.

Do you have any hints, what I might have setup wrongly?

Best regards
Filipe

-Carl

I’ll try to answer your questions, although this probably deserves it’s own post someday.

For status, I have used several other fields in the past, but I am mostly just using due dates now because I want to have sync capability with my mobile phone. On the mobile phone, there are only limited Outlook fields available. Anything with a due date of today is in the current action list (aka “next actions”). I flag hot items by setting the importance field and adding a category of !HOT. Any tasks with a future due date are in the “Scheduled” list. They will appear in the current actions list when they come due. This is sort of like a tickler file. Anything with no due date is in the Someday/Maybe list. These get checked during the weekly review and may get a due date assigned at that time. I also have a “WaitingFor” list for items with the @WF category.

I have Outlook views in the task folder that separate these lists out. For example, the “WaitingFor” items are separated from the current actions via a filter in the view.

I have buttons on my toolbar (visible here) that trigger small macros and allow me to change items and move them between lists with a single click. I also have a “refresh” button that sweeps through all of my tasks and moves completed items to an archive folder, and moves overdue items forward to today.

As for context, I am just using the categories field. Again, I have used other fields in the past, but the categories field is accessible. I simply add all of the contexts I use regularly to my Master Category List. I don’t add this to the task name.

Hope that helps!

-Carl

By the way, I switched from SendPlay to Send a few versions ago (there is probably some discussion on the blog about it). There is still a debug switch to change it back. If you add a “DROE_Debug = 2″ line in the [General_DROE_Settings] section of the ini file it will revert back.

-Carl

-Carl

Thanks for the tool!
Josh

Great blog. Very helpful. You mentioned use of separating @Waiting For and @ Someday/Maybe as statuses and referenced a separate system that you use to track status.

My question(s):

1. How do you track status in Outlook? I have been using categories and created a task view that groups by category

2. Where do you enter the context (e.g., @Errands)? Is this part of the task name?

Thanks. You have been incredibly generous with your time.

Kind Regards,
Gary

Original link here: http://it.knightnet.org.uk/2009/04/copy-and-paste-to-onenote-autohotkey.html#disqus_thread

To get this to work on my system (Windows 7, OneNote 2010) I had to make the following changes:

1. Window name match should be ” – Microsoft OneNote”
2. SendPlay should be Send
3. Put Sleep 50 after Send ^C (to wait for the operation to complete, since Send is asynchronous)

I use my outlook 2007 for work, uni and personal email and sometimes forget to change the ‘from’ line of my emails. Could you please give advice on how to write a macro so it will remind me each time I want to send an email as to whether I want to put one in? I’ve tried editing existing code like yours above, but can’t get it to work. (I’m not that great at programming) Any help would be gratefully received, thanks so much.

Harry

-Carl

You may be interested in these two threads with a lot of comment about IS & Evernote, the first one on my blog and the second on another Kiwi blog:

http://mywitsend.co.nz/computer-stuff/software/725

http://jmacg.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/evernote-enters-my-life/

Alan Vallis
Whanganui

When I’m writing an article for instance, I’ll have loosely arranged potentially useful information in one of those ‘manila folder’ topics, and I will read through it all to remind myself of what I’m doing. With the structure you describe (with all my information in an Everything Else folder) I don’t think I’d be able to do that.

Sorry to ‘rabbit on’ about this (Aussie saying?!), but I’d be interested in your thoughts, if you have time.

Cheers,
Nick.

First of all, if there are individual entries in your auto-complete addresses that you don’t want, you can remove them. Start typing in the “To” field until the unwanted name shows up. Then, highlight it (without clicking) and press the delete key.

You can also check domains for each outgoing message by modifying the macro. For example, to display the domains you could add code like:

If Item.Class = olMail Then
MsgBox Item.To & vbCrLf & Item.CC
End If

You can use the InStr command to check those fields for certain strings and trigger the popup based on that.

Happy coding!

-Carl

Great Macro thanks.

Can you propose a way to help with the following
Due to the Outlook Auto Complete feature, I sometimes send an email to the wrong contact
And It can be very problematic at times…

I would like to write a macro that will do:
pop up a warning with a list of domains that the mail is sent to

or check that the mail is sent to an external domain (not my company domain name)

Thanks,
Amit

I agree, that was definitely something I was hoping to add. If you dig into the macro code, you’ll notice that the links inserted into the email are tagged with the link type of “REL=ATT_LNK”. This is sort of a made up tag I used to indicate “attachment links”. I was hoping a later version of the code could use these links to find the original attachment and replace it when a message is forwarded.

I haven’t had much time to enhance this code, which is why I agreed to let it move to the open source project. You may want to raise this request on the project page there.

-Carl

-Carl

I’m sure there are differences in the ways that Evernote and Info Select operate. I have never used Info Select, so I can’t say for sure what you would be loosing. Since Evernote is free, my recommendation is to try it out for a while (without migrating any of your current IS data) and see if you like it.

-Carl

Thanks for a great code. This was working on my Outlook for a few days, and then all the sudden stopped working. Nothing pops up at all. I’ve brought my security level down to Low, tried deleting and re-programming the macro, and nothing seems to work. Any words of wisdom? I have Outlook 2003.

Thanks!

What I can’t seem to discover without actually using Evernote is whether it can match IS in this regard. What I’m asking, essentially, is whether, as in IS, you can ‘drop’ information into relevant folders that you can work with later, i.e. create a sort of loose structure that you can update and change constantly, but which instantly searchable a the same time. At least from the publicity, Evernote looks like a big grab-bag of ’stuff’, so that you can search and find anything, but perhaps without imposing your own structure on your information.

I’m hoping that’s a false impression, because in many ways Evernote looks really good. Can you tell me whether it ‘replaces’ Info Select, or do you lose some of Info Select’s strengths by going over to Evernote.

I’d be very interested, as well as grateful, for your thoughts.

Nick.

If you’re choosing your cards at the beginning of the week with the top 3 projects, top 3 tasks, etc. and aren’t recalculating that daily as new, higher-priority tasks come up, the system falls on its face.

In any given week for me, I sweep off 50+ tasks and a dozen projects, only to have that time replaced by 100 more tasks and two-dozen more projects. That’s just the nature of the work we all do.

-Carl

Re. tags in Evernote, you mention that the user can “define rules for automatic tags”

This would be really useful for me, however I can’t see how to enable it in v3.5.

Any ideas? Thanks!

I don’t know of a way to add the [tags] automatically in OneNote, but you could do something with VBA in Outlook once they are synced. Unfortunately the sync is sort of one time (other than status). That’s why I added it to the template to remind myself.

I’ll curious about the [tag] format you are using and how it is in the subject of each task. Are you typing that in yourself for each NA or is there some automatic way of getting the project’s tag name into each task?

Thanks for a great write up on a very nice GTD implementation.

Jason

-Carl

-Carl

-Carl

So if you want to share your notebook and have 4 or 5 people access it, you can all buy Evernote or use Hamachi 2.0 to link your computers to a central server.

My name is Freddy and I’ve wasted nearly a month of my life on this place I found it after being recommended by a few friends who have been hanging out here for quite some time.

I am a writer, graphics artist, photographer and just about anything else that comes up around the office. Aside from the above interests i’m really into scifi as I know that is so much more out there to be discovered, and a feeling that the universe is just teaming with life.

Well, I hope that I get to know more people here, share some experience and start learning. Have a greay day!

-Carl

Hope all is well. I’m not sure if you’re still putting any work into the DROE Tool anymore, but It appears to need an update for OneNote 2010 (Beta). When I use Win+N it creates a new unnamed section with a time stamp, rather than creating a new entry on the DROE page. I copied a new link to the DROE page after I installed OneNote 2010 and updated the .ini file, but it still goes to another new section every time I use Win+N.

-Carl

Thanks.

I wonder if somebody else experiencing the same strange behaviour. I think unfortunately there is not much people using your tool together with Office 2010 Beta.

Not sure if that will help, just a guess at this point. Maybe when I get my PC set up again at home I can try the Office 2010 Beta. My work PC is locked down, so they keep track of what we install.

-Carl

Unfortunately I can’t find a way how to disable shortcuts in OneNote.

The big mystery for me is fact, that DROE tool worked perfectly with Office 2010 Technical Preview. And when I upgraded to new public Office 2010 Beta it begin to behave this strange way.

If you like, you could download Office 2010 Beta for free: http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx

Anyway, thanks for trying to help.

Aleš

-Carl

I tested you DROE tool with Office 2010 Technical Preview edition and it worked very well. However since I installed new Office 2010 Beta, it stopped working properly. When I try to make new note through Win+N shortcut, it creates new Section with new page in my notebook instead of create new note in my Daily Record page.

I checked all the settings in INI file, but it didn’t help.

Do you have any idea how could I fix this?

Thanks

-Carl

I’ve tried the self-signing above; but no improvement there.

Any ideas?

Anyway, it sounds like the Evernote team must have changed the way that AutoImport works. The only suggestion I have is to run the DROE Tool in text mode, and then paste the contents into Evernote one a week or once a month. Sorry I don’t have a better solution right now. I’ll look at this for the next version of the tool.

-Carl

-Carl

-Carl

Sorry for the slow response… If you have a question that is specific to OneNote itself, there are several places you can go for help. The first place is the Microsoft Community forum. There are also some blogs maintained by the OneNote development team, such as the ones here and here.

Hope that helps.

-Carl

Great bit of code. Is there anyway of adopting this to remove attachments in calendar items?

Removing the following code does not help, errors out with 438 object does not support property or method.

“If objMsg.Class = olMail Then”

Many thanks, Steve.

-Carl