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bidirectional?

Open fkgruber opened this issue 7 years ago • 5 comments

Hi, Just a feature request: It would be fantastic if we could download a specific onenote page into a orgnote subtree. Specially, if there are images, handwriting etc. Perhaps being able to keep them in sync.

The one thing missing in orgmode is some sort of handwriting support.

thanks Fred

fkgruber avatar Jul 10 '18 18:07 fkgruber

With org-download, we could insert a clipboard image into an org-mode buffer.

I think that if the work flow looks like this:

  1. Two computers. One runs OneNote, and the other runs an Emacs session (e.g., open a Pdf), we could insert OneNote notes into org-mode very easily. The key issue how to share clipboard between two computers.

  2. The second is that you just work on a computer with OneNote. The only way to do this, is to similar #1 but obviously, one need review the note (i.e., re-organize note into an org file)

randomwangran avatar Aug 10 '19 01:08 randomwangran

You know Onenote is not open-source software, it's not easy to switch between org-mode files and Onenote notes seamlessly with restricted API. My original intention is to save my math/latex org-mode files to Onenote, and manage them locally in emacs. Anyway, PRs are welcome.

ifree avatar Aug 11 '19 14:08 ifree

@ifree

Don't get me wrong. I don't think we can easily do bidirections.

org-mode is a great tool to write ASCII notes. OneNote is good at "drawing". What I actullay want is to combine two tools.

I use org-mode to do the main note taking. If I want to "draw" something, I would like to use OneNote to do the job. Once I finish the job, I will send the screen shot (OneNote) to clipboard, which is shared between two computers ( one is running org-mode and the other is running OneNote ). Then, I can insert the screen shot into org-mode buffer using org-download.

Just want to share with anyone who want to do "bidirection" between org-mode and OneNote.

randomwangran avatar Aug 11 '19 16:08 randomwangran

My OneNote workflow is simple as a log. I write my diary with a pen in my notebook, and then I just take photos of it at the beginning of next day and save as a one-note page.

I'd be happy if an import tool would download my whole OneNote tree as a subtree in org-mode.

ghost avatar Aug 15 '19 03:08 ghost

Maybe it's a bit hacky, but in theory it should be possible to export onenote to HTML using this python script and then convert the HTML back to org mode either using pandoc or org-web-tools

julopezc-acciona avatar Jun 16 '21 13:06 julopezc-acciona