Blog Test with OneNote

I really like Microsoft's OneNote. It works the way that I think -- randomly. I am especially fond of the fact that you can click on the page and start typing anywhere. I'm actually writing this blog in OneNote as a test of using it for blogging. Since I have blogging software which is not one of the big ones and runs from text files, I'll have to see how this works as I export this to text. In fact, here goes . . .

. . . that was interesting. I tried saving the document in several formats, transferring it to Microsoft Word and copying it. The thing that worked best was to select the entire page, open Macromedia Dreamweaver, and past the text into the program.

It's interesting to me because I use bloxsom. It works from text files which have a simple format. The first line in the body has to be plain text. This is followed by formatted text. When I copied the entire file, and pasted it into Dreamweaver to create the HTML page, it formatted the OneNote page title as a plain text line and placed the remainder of the file into simple paragraphs.

The only problem is that it didn't copy the hyperlink from the bloxsom reference in the paragraph above. I think that could be a minor problem to overcome. One quick tip about copying the page. You can't use the Ctrl-A keyboard shortcut as this appears to copy only the block you are currently in. You have to select the entire page with the mouse if you want to pick up the page title.

Otherwise, as I work in OneNote all the time and it's so easy to start and come back to entries, I think this could prove to be an interesting way to create blogs.

(If you're viewing this on Blog Spot, then it's because I have uploaded it through Word as another test. Interesing . . .)