OneNote genesis

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Steven Sinofsky's Microsoft TechTalk — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:50:44 GMT

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re: OneNote genesis

Chris Pratley — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:38:05 GMT

Ditman: good news (2 years later!) 2007 will add a link back to the document you copied and pasted from.

Aperson: I generally don't like to get into comparison discussions with other products. That said, if you use EverNote and OneNote you'll pretty quickly see that EverNote, while it has a few nice things about its approach, doesn't really scale well to multiple projects, note taking, multi-user collaboration, annotating research driectly (such as writing on stuff you collected), etc. For example, you aren't able to easily switch between "projects" and maintain context (e.g. what page you were on and what you were last looking at) since each time you switch categories the EverNote database is requeried and you start over. EverNote is mostly a data categorization tool which is fine but OneNote covers quite a lot more ground. BTW, not that it matters much but since you mention it OneNote was released at least a year before EverNote...

re: OneNote genesis

APerson — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:17:35 GMT

How is OneNote different/better than the much longer available and free - EverNote?
http://www.evernote.com/en/downloads/

re: OneNote genesis

Ditman — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 00:14:00 GMT

Great product...but..... I wish when I dragged a chunk of a doc or xls, it notated and linked where it came from, exactly the way it does with chunks dragged from the internet.

Thanks

re: OneNote genesis

Sam Smith — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 22:38:00 GMT

OneNote is targetting a large audience, a lot of us are very disorganised, this probably even applies MORE to very professional people.

re: OneNote genesis

Chris Pratley — Tue, 04 May 2004 11:00:00 GMT

Jeremy - thanks for the details. You described the most common suggested use, so that's consistent with other feedback so far. What are the other dozen? :-)

Zaine: Yikes!

re: OneNote genesis

Zaine Ridling — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:21:00 GMT

OneNote has been a godsend for me, esp. since Ecco Pro folded years ago. I'd been looking for a decent outliner since. I even bought NoteMap, which is quite good, but lacks the broad flexibility of OneNote. OneNote is so good that I actually composed a book in it - 178,000 words!

re: OneNote genesis

Jeremy Marx — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:06:00 GMT

Chris,

Referring to XML, I guess what I was getting at, loosely speaking, is allowing other (non-Microsoft) applications to understand and manipulate a note. For example, let's say I want some of my notes to be automatically imported into a non-Microsoft database on my website. With XML, it'd be easy to write a script to read in the information, translate it into SQL statements, and send them up to the server. That's only one example; I could think of dozens more.

To be honest, I'd love it if all Office apps had the option to save to XML by default.

A history of OneNote

Loosely Coupled — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:55:00 GMT