OneNote vs Highlighters & Paper
What is This?
There was a time when I used to prefer to print documents so I could make notes on them and kind of map things out. Needless to I have not needed to do that in a long time. Until yesterday.
I had written a test, bigger than a unit test but nothing huge. I needed to test my methods that would take a string from a database with special mark-up and make it into JSON. The special mark-up would allow information from another database to be injected and some XMLish in it would map fields from our object to the JSON.
I had three text things I needed to view; the source string, the data object, and the JSON generated.
I had two tests like this and did the first one the old-fashioned way. I printed each text on its own paper and went to work making sure things were correct.
Is There a Better Way?
I thought to myself there has to be a better way. Or at least a way to not use all this paper.
Naturally I thought of OneNote. At first I hoped to place each text item into its own note, pop them out across my monitors and go. I could not pop my notes out.
Finally I made a note with a three column table. I had to stretch it some but it worked! Maybe not as easy but I had more color choices, less paper, and I technically could keep this note as proof. Although once I knew things were correct I knew my expected string was correct.
I do not know if I will need to do something like this again, but if I do you can bet I will go to OneNote first.
Posted on June 7, 2017, in OneNote. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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