At conferences, I tend to take notes on my tablet in one note with my cruddy handwriting.

I was looking back at something I had written yesterday in an ASP.NET Performance session. Wireshark.com had been recommended as a must-use tool. I dragged my mouse over it to highlight it. Not for any reason, but just daydreaming a little while I was thinking about what I would do next with that piece of info.

I had the idea that maybe I would be able to copy and paste the handwritten ink into the url textbox for internet explorer, so I then right clicked.

To my surprise, I saw a list of possible spellcheck options on the handwriting. Then duh, I realized it was the reco (that's short for recognition) options.

I know that you can do handwriting reco in OneNote, but this was an unexpected nicety.

And yes, when I highlighted the handwriting and copied, it did paste the text for me into the URL! Of course, I still needed to deal with my bad handwriting... :-).