I had been away from my computer for the past few days, taking a break and visiting Singapore and Bangkok, and thus the dearth of post and updates on the Powertoys.
My Double Hyperlink Powertoy is complete, I am just waiting to figure out how to make the powertoy GUI be displayed on top of OneNote instead of behind it. Once that is figured out, I will release the powertoy.
Meanwhile there are a bunch of Powertoy ideas I toyed with, during my isolation from my computer (I actually used pen and paper to jot down these ideas, seems quaint I know ;)) :
1) Double Spacing Ink ( Handwritten Text) : The inspiration for this came from submitting my maths assignments. The professor wanted the problems done in double spaced and I ended up manually moving the ink down after every line.
2) OneNote has some great outlining tools ( levels and containers) which don’t work so well with ink ( atleast not for me). Outlining has the great feature of creating collapsible boxes, a feature I would love to have for my ink notes. Maybe an easier way to handle it would make it more useful for inkers.
3) A Flash Card Powertoy – basically a flash card program integrated into Onenote. DoubleHyperlink Powertoy was a buildup for this one.
4) Selecting everything below cursor location, to be extended into a page break function. Yes that’s for all the printing woes.
5) And ofcourse, I know I am supposed to be working on the TreeView control but I have just had so many things going on in the past few days.
Let me know if anybody has any ideas of features that would be beneficial in the above mentioned powertoys. I won’t promise to have one ready soon, but I am working on it in whatever time I can manage.
That’s all for now, and hopefully work on these powertoys will start off soon 🙂
Tablet PC - A Student's Perspective 