Microsoft Office

Canvas for OneNote allows you to navigate and edit notebooks in a new way by providing a high-level canvas-view of all your content. he prototype lets you zoom and pan around; view and organize content in new ways; add new pages right where you want them; and even locate pages in a timeline view.

Discover the many ways that Canvas for OneNote can help you identify and find the content, pages, and sections you’re looking for.

See how adding, moving, and editing notebook pages and sections from a canvas view can help you get all your content right where you want it.

Watch how easy it can be to browse your notebook, organize content to fit the way you work, and find what you’re looking for using the Activity View and various visual cues.

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Requirements: Windows Vista and OneNote 2007.
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Last updated: 02/25/2009

From the Office Labs blog:

Within Office Labs, we’ve been exploring alternate interactions with software that take advantage of the natural human capacity for spatial recognition in order to help users organize their digital belongings in much the same way that they organize their physical belongings. For example, pptPlex explored how presenting information could benefit from a canvas-based experience. Today we’re pleased to release Canvas for OneNote which explores how you can browse, organize, edit and create OneNote content using a canvas.

How does a canvas make things better? Think about your desk, with piles of papers on the corner and things in certain spaces. You have a lot of liberty to sort and arrange as you want. You know where certain things are, and you can go quickly and easily to those spaces to find them. Our gut feeling is that this canvas-like approach to organizing digital content is really promising, and with this prototype you can help us explore the truth of that feeling through your actual use, interactions, and work flow.

Canvas for OneNote was designed to allow OneNote users to navigate their notebooks more efficiently by using a high-level view of all of the documents, pictures, and anything else they’ve stored in their notebooks. Users will be able to see all their notebook pages and sections at a glance, and zoom into any content for which they want to see more detail or perform edits. It also enables users to organize sections and pages using spatial placement, easily browse and find content based on size and color, and add new sections or pages by simply double-clicking the canvas or using the toolbar. It also provides an Activity View to easily locate pages modified by date.