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One take on OneNote

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OfficeZealot kingpin (and fellow Minnesotan!) Chris Kunicki has posted some insightful commentary on OneNote (most recent: https://blogs.officezealot.com/MT/mt-tb.cgi/172) and I figure it is only a matter of time before Chris Pratley (https://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley) gives a cogent reponse. Chris (the second one) has done a remarkable job in giving a kind of “In the Director’s Studio” type of blog about OneNote. There are few who have been so candid and so clear about their product in this forum. I admire that. Chris (the first one) has also expressed some of my own frustrations in his blog.

Bottom Line: I LOVE THIS PRODUCT. I cannot think of any other program to which I have been introduced in the past year that has had more direct impact on my productivity than OneNote. Really. I have a TabletPC (I think this is where its true utility shines), and I take it everywhere. I take my notes in ink. I send notes in ink. I take side notes (waaaaay better than any stickynote app I have tried), I draw pictures, I set flags for follow up, I get note-flag summaries, I export tasks to Outlook.

I used to find it so dumb that I would take my laptop to a meeting and then take a pad of paper with me as well. Why? Because my computer just didn’t fit how I work. OneNote changed that. I am more organized, I have less duplicative busy-work, and I think it is just fun.

Wish list (some echos of Chris Kunicki here):

1) Please make the sectioning off of ink groups easier to understand and manipulate

2) Please make it easier to organize “My Notebook” (move folders and sections around, move pages etc)

3) Give me a scenario where my notes are like Outlook folders (stored on the server, sync’ed with an offline store. That way, notes are accessible everywhere I log in.

4) This integration would mean that tasks are sync’d, notes are sync’d, etc.

5) Give me “Use Word as your OneNote Editor” type of capability. IOW: make Word ink-enabled and give it to me as my OneNote editor.

6) Give me a full-blown managed library to program against

7) Make it more multi-media savvy.

8) I don’t have a number eight right now, but Chris had 8 so I wanted an 8

 

Rock on.

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