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A blog about Office Labs and OneNote from behind the scenes.

Anticipation....

It's a funny time of year. We're approaching our first beta of Office12 and OneNote12 in the next...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 08/09/2005

I'm on Channel9

Hey, Owen Braun and I are on Channel9 - so you can see what we look and sound like in full motion...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 07/04/2005

Using OneNote on two or more machines

One question I hear pretty often is: "hey, I have two machines with OneNote - how do I keep my notes...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 06/25/2005

Getting organized using OneNote note flags

I've written recently about some of the more exotic capabilities of OneNote, but I thought I would...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 04/23/2005

OneNote for Audio and Video Notes

I thought I would share with you some of the more interesting things people are doing with OneNote -...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 04/09/2005

The best ways to show OneNote to others

I often hear from fans of OneNote that they are frustrated because they can't explain to others what...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 03/09/2005

OneNote Shared Sessions

It's been awhile since I have had time to update my blog, but it looks like I may be able to spend a...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 02/22/2005

New PowerToys for OneNote 2003 SP1

Better sooner than later - the first PowerToys are already here and available for download. Bear in...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 07/28/2004

Final bits of OneNote 2003 SP1 are now available

Here's just a quick note to say that the final bits of OneNote 2003 SP1 (discussed in my last post)...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 07/27/2004

OneNote 2003 SP1 has wrapped

Today we had our ship party for OneNote 2003 SP1 down at Sammamish State Park (at the south end of...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 06/25/2004

More responses to comments on Word posts

Some people publicly and privately have suggested that they find it amazing that I am writing this...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 04/29/2004

OneNote PowerToys

Since there are a lot of developers reading this, how about a brief moment to discuss extensibility...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 04/25/2004

Progeny

This is a little off topic, but I thought I'd share it with y'all anyway. My son was born Wednesday....

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 04/23/2004

Design a blogging feature for OneNote

I thought it might be fun to try a little interactive design experience. There's been a lot of...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 04/14/2004

Awards for OneNote

We've had a good week here last week on the OneNote team. First, we heard that we had won a...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 04/14/2004

Schools of development

I was thinking to write about how software is made. First, I'll start by describing three methods of...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 02/24/2004

Second thoughts

It's been two weeks since I last wrote an entry here. I've been pondering what it is that makes...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 02/24/2004

OneNote and Version 1

Let's say you manage a development team that has a few developers, a few testers, and a handful of...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 02/10/2004

Watson

People who don’t build software for a living have a quite understandable attitude that you...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 02/04/2004

Field Trial

We built OneNote in relative secrecy during 2001-2002. Well, it wasn’t cloak and dagger stuff...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 02/03/2004

OneNote and Journal

Those of you who have a TabletPC are probably familiar with the built-in note-taking application...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 01/31/2004

Interviews

Here are a couple of interviews with me done around the time we announced OneNote in late 2002. Hope...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 01/31/2004

Why Doesn't OneNote have Feature X?

Who decides what features go into a software product? If a software product doesn't have a feature,...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 01/31/2004

OneNote for Blog Prep

I've already switched from Word to OneNote to prepare my blog entries. I didn't like maintaining...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 01/31/2004

OneNote at ComDex - A Day to Remember

I guess I forgot to tell you all the story of the "day I won’t forget" in the last post. It...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 01/31/2004

Going Public with OneNote

November 18th, 2002 is a day I am not likely to forget. I was in Las Vegas for Comdex. We had been...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 01/31/2004

Humility and handwriting

Designing the actual experience of handwriting in OneNote 2003 was quite a challenge. We...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 01/30/2004

The Myth

Myths are fun to believe in and perpetuate. Myths are also amazing in their immortality. But myths...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 01/30/2004

OneNote genesis

OneNote started as an email exchange between myself and Steven Sinofsky, the Senior VP for Office,...

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 01/30/2004

Introduction

This is my first post to my first blog. I'm trying this out to get a sense of what blogging is like....

Author: Chris Pratley Date: 01/29/2004

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