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I’ve always maintained that OneNote is Microsoft’s most under-rated product. Now, the recently untethered (from Office) and free (hallelujah!) app has added a capability that makes using it even better: You can email important notes directly to your OneNote notebooks.

To set it up, all you need to do is click through to Email Settings on OneNote.com and sign in with the Microsoft account that’s associated with the OneNote notebook you want to use. By default, you’ll see the email address you just signed in with. If you want to add more addresses, you’ll need to add them as aliases in your Outlook.com account. Hit save and you’re done.

To email notes into your default notebook, just send an email to me@onenote.com from any of the email addresses you just configured and watch the note appear as a new page in your Quick Notes section. It’ll work like this: The email subject becomes the title of the note, and whatever is in the body of the message becomes the note itself. If your email has graphics and rich text, those will all be preserved as well.

You can use this functionality to quickly email to-do lists directly into your OneNote notebook, for instance, or forward maps, itineraries, and flight tickets from your email to OneNote for your next vacation. Very, very handy.

This article was written on January 14, 2011 by CyberNet.

How many times have you wanted to archive a webpage or save its current state for one reason or another? I know this has happened to me, and I’ve almost always turned to a scrolling screenshot to snap an image of the entire page or I’ve used a print-to-PDF app. These methods aren’t bad for most purposes, but I know very few people who try to save a webpage using the “save as” option that is built-in to most browsers. If you do go that route you’ll normally end up with a bunch of helper files (images, CSS, scripts, etc…) that also get saved in order to fully reproduce the site.

There is an awesome Google Chrome extension called SingleFile that will actually make modifications to a page so that everything (except videos/Flash) are stored in-line and can therefore be saved to just one HTML file. It encodes images and embeds CSS so that there are no helper files needed, and since it is a standard HTML file it can easily be shared with other people without worrying whether they’ll be able to open the file.

There are several different “SingleFile” extensions available for Chrome and I want to point out the differences:

• SingleFile – This is the stable version of the extension that is recommended for most users. There are some nice new options and features in the Beta version which is a little further down this list.
• Scrapbook for SingleFile – Creates a browsable archive of all the pages you save. It’s a great way to manage saved pages if you don’t feel like organizing them yourself on your hard drive.
• SingleFile Beta – Has some great new features including options to remove elements from a page before saving, background processing, and more. The options are all pictured in the screenshot above.
• SingleFile Core Beta – You’ll need this if you’re using the SingleFile Beta, and has been broken out into a separate extension so that other extension developers can take advantage of the work that has been put into this library.

After installing the extension a new button will be added to the toolbar, and what happens from there depends on the settings you have configured. If you enable the “save processed page” option it will automatically save the file in an obscure directory within your Google Chrome profile. You can create a shortcut to this folder (which is listed in the help section for the various operating systems), but I recommend just enabling the “display processed page” option. Then all you have to do is click the button, wait for it to finish processing the page, and then use Control+S (or Command+S on Mac) to save it to your hard drive.

I highly recommend checking out this extension if you’ve ever found yourself snapping a screenshot of a page or saving it as a PDF for later reference. At least this way you can still fully interact with the page and click on any of the links.

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Many habitual Evernote users have giant stacks of notes that can be difficult to sift through. Mercifully, Evernote’s updated iOS app has come to their rescue: it now lets users create shortcuts to favorite notes and surface related notes. It’s easier to mark up those scribbles, too — the update integrates tightly with Skitch, dropping users directly into the companion app for annotations and drawings. Premium users can jump directly to Skitch for PDF editing. There isn’t a corresponding Android update just yet, but serious iOS note takers can get the new Evernote build today.

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Springpad may lack Evernote‘s commercial clout, but it makes up for it in a number of ways — not least with free-of-charge features like offline access from its mobile apps (which certain rivals charge for) and Pinterest-style sharing options. The interface hasn’t been a particular strong point, but that could be about to change as version 4.0 has just gone live for at least some users of the web interface. The new UI centers everything on three key buttons along the top:

• Springs — which gives you immediate access to your latest notes, regardless of which device you made them on
• Notebooks — for organizing your notes into projects
• Search & Do — which, needless to say, lets you search your notes, but also suggests activities based to-do tasks you’ve created.

The same, simplified philosophy is due to hit Springpad’s iOS and Android apps soon, although there’s no sign of that happening just yet. In meantime, check out the web interface for yourself at the source link.

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Another day, another leak from Google. As The Next Web reports, a note-collecting service called Keep was accessible on Google Drive for a short period of time last night — and if your short-term memory is a bit cloudy, Drive itself got leaked in a similarly bizarre fashion before getting official last year. 1E100 had initially found source code, images and various links that seemed to point to Keep, which apparently went live soon after. Interestingly, while all of the links point to error pages, one redirects to a specific, unresolveable app url on Google Play. Android Police was able to snag some screenshots of the web app in action — albeit disconnected from Drive at the time — noting that it’s reminiscent of Mountain View’s late Notebook service that was killed in ’09. Whether the likes of Evernote will have to worry remains to be seen, but the added functionality to Drive will certainly be appreciated — now, how about letting us get at that Now app for iOS?

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Via: Android Police, The Next Web, Google System

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