2007 Predictions

Posted by Jack Crawford
Jan 3, 2007 at 02:24 AM

I’m probably more interested in the information management rather than the hardcore writing features of these software products.

I’ve been playing with OneNote 2007 and am very impressed. MS has certainly raised the bar in the PIM Dept. The multiple notebooks, the “print to OneNote ” feature, the suprisingly good text recognition, tags, tables etc etc all combine into an enticing package. You should be able to get data from just about any software that prints into OneNote in searchable form. Especially when used in tandem with IE7 and Outlook, OneNote is a powerful alternative.

In 2007, I’ll be keeping an eye also on the activities of Brainstorm and Sycon (Idea!). They had a quiet year in 2006 from a user’s perspective, so it will be interesting to see what they have in store for the new year.

Jack