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Originally Posted by sianon
One note is a delightful and very useful program and one whcih I could not do without now.
I am becoming increasingly annoyed that we continue to use an old version of windows XP and Office 2003 at work. No one note and no sticky notes on the screen as per Windows 7. Wanted to put some reminder notes for some priority tasks for tomorrow morning, and had to use primitive paper post it notes 
Karen |
I agree...OneNote might be my favorite MS app of all time. I use it every day for working as well as anything else I need to keep track of. Evernote is also really nice as well and I was using it before OneNote...gotta give MS credit because they won me over with OneNote from the first time I used it.
For anyone who does not know what OneNote is or what it does here is the Wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_OneNote
And there are other similar apps out there but these are the sort of features I WANT in my portable devices along with ability to sync them all as needed. And I see no reason an ereading deivce should not move in such a direction for their more full featured models. To me this sort of app is like a PDA on steroids. Integrate it (it already is btw) with email AND ebooks and it's a students dream/killer app. Toss in an office suite with a spreadsheet app, a DB app, graphics app and there is not much else a person needs to do anything you want. And these sort of programs do not have a high hardware overhead relative to today's hardware, even reader hardware. Even storage space is so cheap & fast as to make this really possible in a slate PC device.
The way I see it, reader brands need to bolt the reader software onto something like a OneNote app rather than keeping them apart from productivity apps...I think that is the issue many have with the one-trick-pony dedicated reader, especially so in large format devices. The device OS is kludged to make it reading software centric rather than the reader software being merely one feature of the OS...so much processing and resources are being wasted simply to read a book. It really does not take very powerful hardware to format and display a book and what is there in place now is going to waste for the most part.
I sense the designers of the Que had this idea in mind. Probably the Skiff as well. And certainly, well, hopefully, Apple...we already know MS is moving this was as their Win7 is actually designed aorund a touch interface with the legacy keyboard/mouse interface bolted on to the system. Also there is that spiffy MS dual screen thingy we have all seen here on MR. Sorry I forget the name of that device...but it looks really nice as well.
like I mention many times, I want a small 5" device for novels & recreational reading but for other needs I want a full featured slate PC like device that can run real apps and give me real connectivity as well as ebook access. And I do not mind an 8.5"x11" form factor if it's only 1/3" thick, heck lets splurge and go up to 1/2" and call it good!!
