Blog Round-up for October 2007

Mike has compiled another set of blog feedback for this past month:

Love and Affection

• OneNote is by far the best app they have released in a decade
• So, I have to give Microsoft a little bit of credit for creating OneNote. I really do think that OneNote might just be one of the best applications that Microsoft has created, and THE best application for note taking on the market today.
• OneNote shows us the power the can be unleashed when you have a small, focused team of programmers who are passionate about creating a great product.
• One application I love is OneNote; a new(ish) addition to the Microsoft Office suite and one that gets as much use from me as Word.
• In my 6 months of use in classes of all types, I have yet to find something that OneNote hasnt been able to handle (certainly when compared to all other programs).
• OneNote is like a swiss-army knife program, doing many random, strange things, and doing them all very well.
• OnePoint! - Combining OneNote and SharePoint. OneNote + SharePoint - An excellent collaborative electronic project notebook. All the power of SharePoints online content management system with fantastically user friendly electronic notebook interface.
• A software package that has received a lot of praise in the PC world is Microsoft’s OneNote.
• The way that I work would be dramatically different without Microsoft OneNote. I’ve become the original sales target user, the corridor warrior.
• For a student this program is astonishingly useful.
• Alex’s Essential Tools for Success in his own words: I trust OneNote to store everything I need.
• Hey everyone, I've been using Microsoft OneNote for all of my rough drafts and organizing and I have to say that I love it.
• OneNote is an invaluable tool to me, and one that I use every day. OneNote may cost you, but I highly recommend it, and I think it is well worth the  price

Don't Dig MS, But Dig OneNote

• I wanted to give my official blessing to Microsoft’s OneNote application. Over the past ten years or so, the highest compliment I have given to a Microsoft product has been “adequate”, but OneNote really is a small wonder
• There are plenty of “oh that’s neat!” and “I wonder if I can do that, cool! It works just how I would have expected it would.” moments, which for a MS app is a bit of a surprise.

Awareness

• In my opinion, Microsoft has done a mediocre job at best with marketing some of the new stuff in the Office suite. Most of the people I have talked to have no idea what OneNote is.  Unless potential users know that a new app is present and why it is good for them and their usages, no one will ever use it and it will go no where.
• It gets virtually zero support in marketing.

Personas and Scenarios

• Real estate: Using OneNote + OneNote mobile to inventory your home
• Using OneNote to make holograms
• Electronic Lab notebooks: What makes a composition notebook and ink so secure. I am a computer nerd and I know computer files can be changed - but so can composition notebooks!
• OneNote is an excellent, easy to use tool for students, writers, people looking for a way to organize notes, or anyone who needs more flexibility than Word provides in the creation of documents.
• I’m just getting into it but finding it incredibly useful, especially as a coder; dumping code snippets, ideas from websites, things out of PDF versions of books, arranging them around the various projects I’m working on
• This OneNote-SharePoin t combo is like a team Knowledge Base on steroids: fully searchable, disconnected, synchronizing, shareable, and with all the rich SharePoint functionality of any other library.
• I have been using Microsoft OneNote of late, and I like it. It is quite blogger-friendly

Room for Improvement

• The only place that OneNote Mobile is lacking is in the area of digital ink. There is no provision for drawing on the handheld application nor can it display the digital ink from the desktop/laptop.
• Why People Hate Microsoft: trying to buy a license to convert a trial of OneNote (very handy MSFT program) into the real deal.
• Could you please tell us if/when support for OneNote preview will be implemented?
• There's one big problem with Listas, and that's that it doesn't go far enough. Microsoft already has a desktop outliner in the shape of OneNote, so why doesn't it link the two applications? After all, I have my to do lists in OneNote, along with a selection of other lists that I might want to access when I'm on the road.
• OneNote lacks a couple of refinements that I would like to see in future editions. Like a little more interactivity as seen in InfoPath. Drop down menus, better connectivity with other Office programs.

Competition

• EverNote vs. OneNote: So which one did I finally pick? Well, I broke down and bought a copy of OneNote 2007. One of the biggest reasons was desktop search capability.

Misc

• Humorous Office Online comic about OneNote

Thanks Mike and everyone else for writing about OneNote!

Comments

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  November 08, 2007
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• Anonymous
  November 17, 2007
  Hi Daniel, I have one more to add to your list...  I recently wrote up a detailed description of how I am using OneNote as part of my Getting Things Done (GTD) system.  The how-to post, complete with screen shots, can be found here: http://manage-this.com/onenote-outlook-gtd-system/ -Carl

• Anonymous
  January 03, 2008
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