Comments on OneNote

Posted by Gorski
Mar 15, 2007 at 01:25 PM

I’m also a Onenote convert. Let me add two other features I didn’t see mentioned that are key for me:

* The ability to record audio and synch your notes to the audio. This is fabulous for a journalist such as myself: You can type notes while recording an interview, then return to your notes later, click on the play button next to any portion of your notes, and immediately begin playing the audio of that part of the interview.

* Effortless synchronization. If you create your notebooks on a thumbdrive, you can move seamlessly between work and home. Both will stay synched without requiring you to do a thing (no need to go to the menu, start the synchrnonization, click through multiple dialogs, etc. It just works). And because you actually worked from cached copies of your notebooks on your work and home machines, if you forget you thumbdrive, it doesn’t matter, because it will synch the next time you connect. You can also use this synchronization to collaborate with other OneNote users over a network, but I haven’t tried that.