OneNote is the digital notebook that goes anywhere

re: OneNote is the digital notebook that goes anywhere

ShelLuser — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:13:52 GMT

Ok, a late response but heck; that's what blogs are for!

First: Fully agree; a toast to OneNote (and Office 2010 in general IMO) for its first year.

Second: A cheesy post IMO but you know what they say; "do you want some cheese with that...", you know what I mean (and if you don't then the joke is on me; no offense!).

More seriously; I fully agree. Many people believe they need Access or some other database-like environment because databases are where its at (note: granted, these are often people coming from other environments, at least that's my experience) yet seemingly totally miss the obvious.

For me.. I re-discovered OneNote and use it to store just about anything I need to remember long enough to look into it again OR stuff I simply need to be able to recall quickly. The idea to check out office.com as soon as I had some more time to spare? The todo was in OneNote. Website registrations and passwords... you should /really/ be careful not to use one password on everything. Why buy commercial solutions when OneNote can store the whole lot (and even password protect the section too!)? And to generate said passwords (quick "spam") I use the freely available "PWGen" program.

Powershell (self-)study comments and code (script) tidbits? All in OneNote. Recent discoveries on Windows administration (current one being "dism.exe" curtosy of TechNet) ? OneNote. Important synthesizer (-related) information I need to keep track of? OneNote. Ideas for sound creation with suddenly hit me (when behind the computer): OneNote (the "yellow sticky" option). Things I talk to the phone about and then think "this I NEED to remember!": OneNote.

Website tidbits I find on technet or msdn or think to find on office.com (I just created my account) ? Mark, right click -> "Send to OneNote". Priceless!

And that's my story.

re: OneNote is the digital notebook that goes anywhere

abhay4589 — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:26:36 GMT

How do I sync Onenotes that contains Password?

re: OneNote is the digital notebook that goes anywhere

cliffordsf@hotmail.com — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:53:17 GMT

OneNote fanatic since day one...use it for my work and personal live. Created a shared notebook for my work team on a shared drive and it's working perfectly for us. It's so easy to update that, well, it gets updated! My only complaint is that I'm also a tablet pc fanatic and not being able to display ink in the web app is a big disappointment. Microsoft said that ink was a first class data type, but it never followed through. I want my ink everywhere.

re: OneNote is the digital notebook that goes anywhere

Erika Palmer — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:04:31 GMT

Glad you liked the blog, Paisano, and thanks for the feedback on the OneNote iPhone app.

re: OneNote is the digital notebook that goes anywhere

Paisano — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:27:32 GMT

Excellent article. I love onenote but just wish we could draw figures and diagrams on the iPad app for OneNote.

That would allow OneNote to compete with the big boys like AwesomeNote.