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Microsoft Launches Standalone 'Office Lens' Scanning App for iPhone
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I love oneNote and this app is a real good add-on for this. But there is one big downside of the App, I can't photograph more then one page to combine those in just one document. That's a real disappointment because sometimes I get a few important pages and now I'll have to scan them one at the time because after taken one photo you need to upload it before you can continue.
The app would be a 5 star app if one could press a " + " button for taking another picture which the app, when done photographing, will add it all together in one single document.
The app would be a 5 star app if one could press a " + " button for taking another picture which the app, when done photographing, will add it all together in one single document.
I use OneNote daily on my iPad. Given the improvements Microsoft has made to the app since it came to iOS, I wouldn't be surprised if multipage scanning is added later.
I wonder how much of this is due to Satya Nadella.
I too have been very impressed with Microsoft the last few years. I know everyone here hates the Surface and makes fun it it (and its abysmal sales record), but I've been a fan since the beginning. The first iterations were far from perfect, but they had the idea right -- build a lightweight, touchscreen device capable of some measure of real productivity, that can actually run a full-blown OS.
The iPad is great, but its almost entirely a consumption device.
did anyone notice how they made the iPhone seem really laggy? Subliminal messaging?
Who made it laggy? Laggy in what way?
Yawn. The same old tired rhetoric from the 80's and 90's which has zero relevance today.
When I found this app on Friday, I used it at every meeting and wow. I like that I can sit in the corner of the room and it can still take a picture as if I'm in the center.
You reckon correctly.
...and record the meeting notes, too.
...and if you type transcribe the audio, when you play it back, OneNote will highlight the text as the audio plays.
OneNote is awesome. As soon as it became available for the iPad, I ditched Evernote and started futterwacken. Vigorously.
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My notebooks are organized sort of like a Franklin Covey planner:
- Each Year gets its own section
- Each section has twelve tabs, one for each month
- Each Month tab has its own day page
- Each day page has the requisite number of subpages (and subsections of pages as needed) for each customer I visit per work day.
The customer page contains whatever I deem appropriate for that visit: notes, reports, email printouts, annotated pictures, drawings, tables that I create on the fly, videos, web clippings, audio recordings, hyperlinks to other notebook pages (I just discovered this a couple weeks ago. Love it). Pretty much anything goes. Freeform note taking at its best in my opinion. Synced across the iPhone, iPad, and Windows laptop via OneDrive.
Send to OneNote buttons are scattered throughout Windows programs (work laptop), and Open in OneNote is popping up more and more as an iOS share option, so its easy to import all kinds of information from all kinds of sources. It's an indispensable part of my workflow.
Yep. Just yesterday while at a customer site, I navigated to to 2015-->April 2015-->clicked on the "New page" button-->renamed the page "Friday, April 17th"--> New page-->rename it "[Customer Name]"-->right click on [Customer Name]-->"make subpage"-->then fill the page with the notes of the visit. If I'd gone to a second customer yesterday, I would have created a second subpage of "Friday, April 17th".
On Monday, I'll do it all over again and keep doing it until it's time to create a new tab called "May 2015". It's pretty much a daily journal.
On Monday, I'll do it all over again and keep doing it until it's time to create a new tab called "May 2015". It's pretty much a daily journal.
Strange. Because that sounds identical to Apple to me. Since when have Microsoft dropped support? They're STILL supporting XP for some enterprises whilst Apple always ditch their software a year after it's released. What example do you have of Microsoft doing this because for as long as I can remember, Microsoft have nearly always (a few exceptions aside) supported their software for the longest time.