A OneNote notebook is comprised of separate files, which may be stored in different locations. Sure, if you first create a new "Section" in OneNote itself, the application will create the new file in the default path (which can be customised via Tools/Options/Open and Save). But you can easily move that file elsewhere once it's been created. Just create a normal Windows link to the file in your notebook folder and OneNote will show the tab with a small symbol on it, so you know that file is not physically part of your default notebook.

This feature has many uses: I use it to link project-oriented OneNote files, that are stored in a directory managed by source code version control, into my main notebook, for example. I also have some files that are stored on a network drive, and that's where I recently found a problem: While searching my notebook for a string I knew had to be there somewhere, I found that OneNote doesn't include network-stored files in its search by default. They call that feature "performance enhancement" :-) Well, I found the place where I could switch an option and now things work fine. Can't help but wonder though, with shared sessions working as well as they do, even over WAN connections, does searching a file on a network drive (which will be on a fast connection, more often than not) really create the kind of load that needs to be optimised?

Chris Sano has made a fix for his ColorPicker.NET available, a tool I wrote about earlier. This update fixes the problems related to multi-monitor setups, where the mouse pointer wouldn't want to leave the primary screen after dragging the mouse in the color area. His announcement of the fix is here.

In Chris Pratley's article The best ways to show OneNote to others, I found the idea of storing blog articles in OneNote. Somehow that never occurred to me :-) So I thought I'd employ the IE2OneNote power toy to copy all my current articles to OneNote to start with.

Several problems with this: first, the format of a web page is completely lost when doing that. The power toy simply dumps the textual context of a page, plus the images, into a OneNote page sequentially. Sometimes, I do use tables in my blog articles and I also use formatting for my code samples, so that's really ugly. The second thing is, IE2OneNote hangs up Internet Explorer reliably when trying to send my article Simulating object properties with ITypedList and custom PropertyDescriptors to OneNote. Most other articles I tried don't show that problem, I have no idea why this happens...

Now, the question is, are there alternatives? Maybe even for Firefox instead of IE?

Update: I just found that part of the reason I'm losing formatting is that OneNote doesn't support tables at all. Chris Kunicki has that on his list of 8 things he doesn't like about OneNote.