Does onenote convert seamlessly to PDF? For a long time it had been my dream to have electronic notes that can be read/studied outside without having to print them...the new nook color supposedly opens/supports PDF's (and can be read in sunlight, GENIUS!). In theory this could make my life. Does anyone see any potential problems with this?
Also, I fear my old mac will not want to run a dual operating system, and while a die hard mac lover, his time may have come. I have seen onenote demos and know it is heavily used at my school and assume it will become my note taking lifeblood, so are there specific tablet PC's that work better with this program or are personal favorites? And would you ultimately recommend a tablet over standard PC if I am buying something regardless?
I don't know about OneNote converting into PDF. I'll try it and let you know. There's this program I used to use a lot in undergrad called PrimoPDF. It's a free program that lets you add PrimoPDF as a printer, and then when you want to make something into a PDF, all you do is hit print, select your printer as "PrimoPDF" and the file will open up as a converted PDF right there in Acrobat! I just tried doing the reverse of what you were asking, putting a PDF into ON, and that process went quite smoothly.
ETA: Okay, I just tried converting an ON page into PDF using PrimoPDF, and it worked beautifully! You are good to go!
I can tell you about my new tablet that I'm using. It's the HP Touchsmart tm2t. Specs: 500 GB 7200 rpm hard drive, Intel core i5 processor, windows professional 64 bit OS, 4 GB RAM (1 Dimm), 512 MB ATI Mobility Radeon Graphics Card. I love this tablet. The screen is capacitive and resistive, so you can use both touch and stylus. I actually find myself using the touch quite a bit for web browsing. The stylus is quite useful for ON. You don't even have to flip your tablet down into tablet mode if you want to scribble a quick note or drawing on your screen, although it's a pretty quick and easy thing to do to rotate into tablet mode. I find the handwriting recognition software (both in ON and the HP tm2t proper) to be quite accurate, as well as the touch. I'd say the suckiest part about this computer is definitely the trackpad....HP isn't know for having the world's greatest trackpads. I find it virtually impossible to use pinch zoom or two finger scrolling, and even clicking and dragging can be annoying initially (though I have learned my trackpad's particular idiosyncracies and this is not usually a problem anymore). It's a 12.1" inch screen, so I'd say a good size for transporting around, and it's not too heavy (4.7 lb...not light like a Mac, but it doesn't feel unnecessarily heavy). Although, I love the keyboard, which is a chiclet/island style. It's important to be comfortable with the size/layout of the keyboard since you'll be using it for many hours pretty much everyday! I also got a $300 dollar discount, one was a $150 instant savings something or other that HP was doing, and the other was using a coupon code from Logic Buy. Make sure you check retailmenot.com or just google around for coupon codes before you buy something (I do this for every online purchase, but it's especially good for large purchases like this!). For the computer I got, I ended up paying about $1200, which is a lot, yes, but not as much as say, Lenovo tablets (which seem to hang out at around the $2000 range), and I feel like a got a pretty good computer that I'm pretty happy with and that will last me the four years (and I needed a new computer anyway). You can get this computer for less (starting retail price is $800) if you choose a smaller HD, less RAM, or a less powerful processor, but I got pretty much the best of those specs I could because I want this computer to last and stay fast.
Plenty of people already in vet school say that you don't need a tablet, but for me, I wanted one because it fits my style (learning, notetaking, computing) the best. I feel like with a tablet, you can get the full range of funtionality in ON, such as drawing diagrams, easily labeling, searching your handwriting, (yes, you can do these with a regular laptop, but it's sooooo much easier to write with a tablet as opposed to a mouse!). I'd say if you're going to be buying something anyway, get a tablet.
I want to explore the notebook sharing over an ad hoc network in OneNote. Unless the school's wireless is set up differently than most, there should be a security feature that prevents clients from finding each other - prevents unwary snooping of less tech savy owners. Ad hoc should enable us to share notes, clarify things, etc. Basically collaboration on the fly. We need to get together during orientation to test and sort out bugs.
I haven't gotten to try the notebook sharing feature yet, so I'm not sure if clients can find each other or not. My understanding was that you invite via email people who you want to share the notebook with you, and you can all see each other and what each person is working on in the notebook, but your computer isn't aware of other ON notebooks around you. I'll try it out with you at orientation!
)... but, just out of curiosity, how do the professors generally feel about students staying home and listening to the recordings instead of going to class?
