Professor Geek

I have been playing around with the latest addition to my software collection, Microsoft’s OneNote. This is very free-form software that gives you all the tools you need to organize all of your misc. thoughts. My problem is that I am generally working on so many projects at one time that I have a hard time keeping all my thoughts straight, especially when projects have some overlap. OneNote is designed to be a central repository for all of those misc. ideas, thoughts, notes, etc., that are generally relegated to the odd scrap of paper, only to be lost and forgotten.

The nice thing about OneNote is that Microsoft, for a change, isn’t trying to tell you how to do things. They simply give you a very versatile tool and let you adapt it to your needs. There are several levels of organization (the whole thing is a notebook which is subdivided into sections or folders. Sections hold pages, which can also have subpages. Folders can hold other folders or sections. So you see, with that you can create whatever type of hierarchy you want within your notebook. Each page can have a note, multiple notes, or subpages, which can in turn have notes. A note can be text, a handwritten item (from a tablet PC or PDA), an audio file, a video file, a picture, or another file. Notes can contain links of all kinds and virtually any type of content you want or need to insert.

I am using this software daily, and I will report back as I become better acquainted with it. First look grade is A.

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