Highlight of the weekend - learning about OneNote
Anybody that knows me can tell you that I'm the original Notepad Warrior; just about everything I do or think about goes through Notepad at one time or another: architecture thoughts, blog entries, code, details about my various websites, diary journal entries, etc. This is about to change because I've discovered OneNote!
OneNote suits how I work and think beautifully as it allows you to manage your thoughts in a very non-intrusive manner. It also has this great little feature called "side notes". Side notes can be accessed at any time during the day - or night :) - by clicking on a tray icon which opens up a little note editor. All that you have to do is to type in your note and close the editor. Under the covers, the note get's saved into your OneNote "journal" to be categorized or moved around at a later time.
4 more cool features:
- Notes can be arranged/laid-out in an ad-hoc/unstructured manner on the page
- There's a great little screen-grab tool for creating images
- Built-in collaboration tools (haven't used them yet)
- ability to password protect sensitive areas of your OneNote "journal"
There's an online training tutorial for OneNote here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/assistance/HA010929471033.aspx