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I'm an attorney, and I created a great litigation and trial-management system using only OneNote. We put it to use in a large "mass action" case with over fifty plaintiffs and tens of thousands of exhibits. The system allowed us to completely outmaneuver the plaintiffs at trial, and we were able to line up exhibits, deposition citations, and both direct and cross examination questions from a single program. We all credit a great deal of our defense verdict to the system.
The key feature that let us build the various pages for trial quickly was the ability to drag and drop exhibit pdfs into the onenote pages as links to files. Due to the sheer volume of exhibits, as well as the ease of using tables, links were far more effective than inserting the files directly, and certainly more effective than inserting printouts.
With OneNote 2013, this mission-critical feature appears to be missing. I can only insert the file, or insert a printout. I don't want to do either- I want to insert a link. I know that I can insert links using the manual "insert link" function, but that is slower and more error prone than the simplicity of the previous versions. Am I missing a key option to trigger? Or is this a missing feature from OneNote 2013? If the latter, I suspect we will stick with 2010....
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It's a shame this hasn't been fixed but am keeping my fingers crossed that it will be addressed in a future update.
I'm sure it will not be addressed in a future update.
Local hyperlinks are deadly for notebooks on Onedrive for sharing with other people or other devices.
Bernd
I'm sure it will not be addressed in a future update.
Local hyperlinks are deadly for notebooks on Onedrive for sharing with other people or other devices.
I honestly hadn't considered that - and it makes sense. Thanks.
I don't share all my notebooks but all business files are stored on one server - so, I share my links with colleagues with no issues. I'm really going to miss the ease in creating these invaluable local hyperlinks. I shall just have to get used to using the "copy as path" method - but I'm not happy about how clumsy that is.
I have the same data structure on all of my computers (sync by BTsync). Local hyperlinks is especially powerful in this case.
And, I don't think I will need to share my notebook to others.
Of course that works.
But MS thinks of people who are following their cloud hype and don't think about the consequences of local hyperlinks in that environment.
Another point is that Onenote development at the 1st version of Onenote (2003) didn't see the cloud coming.
Bernd
Of course that works.
But MS thinks of people who are following their cloud hype and don't think about the consequences of local hyperlinks in that environment.
Another point is that Onenote development at the 1st version of Onenote (2003) didn't see the cloud coming.
Bernd
I think your point regarding OneDrive functionality is key. Local hyperlinks do not function correctly in that environment, and they really want to push their cloud solution. It's a shame they don't, and it seems like it would not be difficult to implement calls to locations on the local desktop even from within a notebook on OneNote.