Newsletter Archives

• More fun with File Explorer

  Posted on April 8, 2024 at 02:43 CDT by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  WINDOWS 11

  

  By Will Fastie

  Windows File Explorer is getting a major overhaul in Windows 11. The most significant change is a new tabbed user interface, a feature much requested.

  I say “is getting” because File Explorer is a perfect example of Susan Bradley’s “dribble” theory, which states that features are being incorporated into Windows in a constant trickle rather than in discrete chunks. Worse, some of these features are being installed silently — we don’t know what we’re getting until after the fact.

  Trying to review such a moving target is challenging.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.15.0, 2024-04-08).

  Windows 11 File Explorer, Newsletters, Power Users, Tabs, Usability, User Interface

• My favorite OneNote tricks

  Posted on April 24, 2023 at 02:43 CDT by Mary Branscombe • Comment in the Forums

  ONENOTE

  

  By Mary Branscombe

  Once you get all your useful information into OneNote, there are some ways to make things go faster.

  For a long time, one of the most common feature requests for OneNote was already in the product — being able to have more than one window open at once. It just wasn’t easy to find. There are useful tricks like that in OneNote. Here are my favorites.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.17.0, 2023-04-24).

  OneNote Newsletters, OneNote, tips, Tricks, Usability