OneNote 2010 beta almost has web notebooks

A few of you probably know I've been after storing OneNote Notebooks on the web for some time now, we've had the ability to stick them on the local network for sharing with other users, but I really need them on the web. Since the main collaborator I work with isn't on my local network and I'm always having to sync his changes back manually.

OneNote 2010 has almost gotten there now, which will be using SkyDrive for storage. The technical preview didn't mention SkyDrive, although considering the Office Web Apps are using SkyDrive on their backend, rather than Office Live it isn't that surprising.

Hopefully we'll see this functioning shortly, before the final release, ideally when we have the OneNote Web App up and running. Then Adam can edit his own show notes. :-)

9 comments

Comment from: Mark Sowul [Visitor] · http://marksowul.com

Why not just set up IIS and WebDAV?

17th November 2009 @ 23:46

Comment from: Paul Smith [Member] · http://www.dasmirnov.net/

Well I could do that, but the person I'm wanting to share it to will need to use the OneNote Web App, so it wouldn't get me any closer. :-)

18th November 2009 @ 10:58

Comment from: Mark Sowul [Visitor] · http://marksowul.com

What I mean is if you expose it as a WebDAV "file share," OneNote can sync up that way (as it does with SharePoint). That's what I use to share notebooks with others that aren't on my network (and between my desktop and laptop, for when I'm not at home).

18th November 2009 @ 12:30

Comment from: Paul Smith [Member] · http://www.dasmirnov.net/

Well yeah, but I just use a network share for that, no changes will be made either end without it being synced first anyway for my own usage.

I would be using SharePoint on my SBS box for it if the guy I work with on this actually used Windows and has a copy of OneNote - which he doesn't, hence why I need the storage on Live SkyDrive and the web-client of OneNote. :-)

18th November 2009 @ 16:27

Comment from: Mark Sowul [Visitor] · http://marksowul.com

Ah...yes, the other party not actually using OneNote is indeed a handicap...

23rd November 2009 @ 13:06

Comment from: Jon Connelly [Visitor] · http://f-s.to/p:22

Have you thought about both setting up a dropbox from getdropbox.com? The free 2GB storage should be plenty of space to share OneNote notebooks, has clients for *nix, Windows, & Mac hardware, and will automatically update any changes made to whatever pc you have the shared dropbox folder on.

18th December 2009 @ 19:03

Comment from: Stefano [Visitor]

Paul - Any updates on this from Microsoft? I am waiting to use 2010 but the lack of SkyDrive is preventing me. Is it me or is the information (or lack thereof) coming out of Microsoft nonexistent?

14th April 2010 @ 12:51

Comment from: Paul Smith [Member] · http://www.dasmirnov.net/

Hello Stefano - nothing official I guess it'll come online when the Office Web Apps go final - whenever that is.