600th post, and OneNote coolness

For my 600th post, a rave about OneNote.

Today, I decided to install OneNote before my first foray into the world of extra-office productivity (coding at Starbucks on my old new laptop), and I'm totally blown away at how cool this program is. In minutes, I was able to brainstorm the details of Interscape's new pricing and licensing model, when it would have taken me an hour to do it with Word or Visio. I can take text and drag it anywhere on the page, I don't have to worry about saving or losing work, and when I start off on a tangent (which I do quite frequently) I can drag the text right out of my current thought, and drag it back in later on. Holy crap! What did I ever do before this program??!? Now I just need a TabletPC and I'll be in note-taking bliss. Goodbye yellow notepads!

4 Comments

  • I thought Microsoft totally blew it with that tool. It's a 50+ meg yellow note replacement. Which means they've missesd the whole reason behind yellow notes: simplicity. I always thought it was closer to Word than anything else.



    Of course to each their own :) Finding ways to boost productivity is always fun, this just wasn't for me :)

  • OneNote is currently the program my friends want me to shut up about. I thought it was cool the first day I used it but a few months later, I'm still finding features that amaze me.



    It is a "posted note" replacement only if you never bothered maximizing it. Then it becomes a notebook replacement. Except it does everything you wish a real notebook did. and more.





    I love this program on a desktop, I can't wait to use it on a Tablet.

  • Indeed. It's a full-text-searchable, web content aggregating, note flag gathering, extremely large yellow note.



    I use it all the time; for brainstorming, research, gathering ideas, taking notes on meetings or seminars...it's certainly replaced the dozen or so pads of legal paper I was using before.



    -B-

  • It's especially good on the tablet (and mixing Ink, audio and text is certainly neat too).



    I usually get that same reaction - "what good is it" - until people actually use it.



    The fact of the matter is, it is quite simple, while offering a lot of power at the same time.



    I've posted a bit in the past on this - my only two real complaints are the lack of API/extensibility and the poor Ink support (ie not like Journal).



    If the rumor mill is right, and these get addressed in SP1, OneNote might be perfect :)

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