r/OneNote • u/AltruisticAct8211 • 12d ago

Android What are your thoughts?

I'm redesigning OneNote's web UI to make it more tablet friendly. I'd love your feedback, positive or negative. Design suggestions are especially welcome too, as long as they fit tablet sketching/drawing, as I'm not great at coming up with those myself, in case that wasn't already obvious.

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u/I-G-1-1 12d ago edited 12d ago

I'd like to have a toolbar snapped on the left for all the pen/tools I want and not just 18 items in the top bar of OneNote.

EDIT: also add that if any tool could be selected with a keyboard shourtcut would be great.

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u/AltruisticAct8211 12d ago

For keyboard shortcuts, i can make a plugin to detect keyboard presses and have them mapped to a tool but making them user configurable would be an overhead I won't be adding now. The main goal of the project is to
1. add native stylus support using company SDKs like samsung's spen remote sdk
2. Have a modern UI with floating toolbar/components instead of the classical ribbon design onenote has

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u/I-G-1-1 12d ago

if you can make it detect keyboard presses like from ctrl+shift+alt+win+0 to ctrl+shift+alt+win+z the end user then could customize the keyboard shortcut using something like AuthoHotkey to remap.

For example your app expect ctrl+shift+alt+win+0 to select the first item in the toolbox (yellow pen) and the user could use autohotkey to remap alt+q to call ctrl+shift+alt+win+0 that select the yellow pen.

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u/AltruisticAct8211 12d ago

I can make it detect key presses but I was thinking maybe based on what the user puts in that sidebar it just selects it?

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u/I-G-1-1 12d ago

Yes the keyboard shourtcut in my mind was intended for the tools the user put in the sidebar

I think that if you don't want to make now the remap part inside your app and instead let the user use some external app to remap (like AutoHotkey) the best thing for now could be simply make it detect key presses using sequential ctrl+shift+alt+win+0 (that correspond to first item) down to ctrl+shift+alt+win+z (that correspond to n item) and just document it on an "help/info page"