I currently use Onenote for creating bread recipes. I have a template which I use to create individual recipes with ingredients/quantities/procedures, etc.
Then this gets filled in as the dough making and baking proceeds, with addition of photos for example being very easy.
However Microsoft seems to have a habit with Onenote of not doing upgrades that users want.
The main thing I miss is not having any calculation facility built in; for example if I decide I want to use one of my already baked recipes and make 50% more bread, I have to update every relevant quantity manually.
I know I can link an Excel file, but this is messy and clunky. And I don't want a standalone spreadsheet solution - Onenote does this aspect of things so much better, with top tabs for sections and side lists for pages.
Chatgpt has suggested Notion. It thinks I will lose a bit but gain most of what I want.
I plan to give it a try, especially since the basic version is free for home use, but I just wondered if anyone else is using or has tried it?
Lance
Can you copy the existing recipe into one of the chatbots and ask it to increase quantities by 50% and keep it in the same format? I have converted recipes from volume measures to grams that way with good success.
Maybe M$ has integrated Copilot into OneNote?
I haven't used Notion or OneNote so take all this as theory.
Gary
Chatgpt can't read onenote files - you have to export to pdf, so it gets messy. But after your post I thought, surely MS's ai Copilot could do it?
It seems not. Copilot said "I can’t directly open or read the contents of OneNote files. What I can do is help you search for them if you’ve connected your OneDrive account to Copilot — since OneNote notebooks are stored there. I’d then be able to list matching files by name, but I wouldn’t be able to open or summarize their contents.
If your goal is to work with the material inside a OneNote notebook, the best way is to export or copy the text into a supported format (like Word, PDF, or plain text) and then share it here. That way, I can help analyze, rewrite, or organize the content."
Not the answer one would hope for....
Select the text in OneNote, copy then paste it into the chat interface. That should give you plain text. Perhaps that will work?
I use Notion for note taking at work. It's pretty nice. I haven't tried doing calculations but it is a nice tool. If anything I find I struggle with it being "too smart", as it I do something and it starts formatting in a particular fancy way and I have difficulty telling it "no, not like that, like this." I think there is a bit of a learning curve in figuring out how to make it do what you want, but it most likely can do so.
Good luck!