I see that GoBinder has discontinued its student-oriented software package.
http://www.gobinder.com/Default.aspx

Daly

It is rare that I have managed to restrain my CRIMP tendencies and been grateful for it later on; this is one of those cases.

When I first saw GoBinder it seemed to me very powerful. I avoided it however, because of its strong educational focus; same as with Inspiration.

I suppose it couldn't compete with Onenote.

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:

It is rare that I have managed to restrain my CRIMP tendencies and been grateful for it

What does CRIMP mean? BTW for me OneNote is a much better choice, especially with the changes made 2010 beta.

You guys may have heard of these two apps, but I thought I'd mention them. They are a couple of apps that I used to help manage a few college classes.
http://www.data4life.net/

One day when we we trying to come up with a description for the malady that causes so many of us to rush to install any new information management software on our computers we came up with this acronym. It stands for compulsive reactive information manager purchasing.

Steve

L. S. Russell wrote:

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>It is rare that I have managed to restrain my CRIMP
tendencies and been grateful for it

What does CRIMP mean? BTW for me OneNote is a much
better choice, especially with the changes made 2010 beta.

It stands for compulsive reactive information manager
purchasing.

LOL! I suffer from CRIMP. At least now I can put a name to it.

L. S. Russell wrote:

What does CRIMP mean? BTW for me OneNote is a much
better choice, especially with the changes made 2010 beta.

What changes have been made? I'm having a hard time telling from the MS website. It looks like most of the improvements are in collaboration?

Tom S.

I'm also curious. Are the tabs within notebooks new?
David

The big new features are versioning of pages and highlighting of who made what changes, both of which are collaboration features. It's becoming a pretty compelling collaboration tool now.

Other big features are reflow of pages if you change the window size provided that your page only has one box on it, better searching, and handwriting recognition of math equations.

There aren't really any new features that are of significant use to individual users. Still no: hoisting, smart quotes, previews of attached files, etc. The improved search still won't search within non-image attachments, which kind of makes attachments useless if you expect to have to search for things.

-- Chris

Tom S. wrote:

L. S. Russell wrote:

>What does CRIMP mean? BTW for me OneNote is a much
>better
choice, especially with the changes made 2010 beta.

What changes have been made?
I'm having a hard time telling from the MS website. It looks like most of the
improvements are in collaboration?

Tom S.

Aside from aesthetic changes, the collaboration tools are (IMHO) primo. Notebook sharing is smooth, and there is built-in version system kinda like Etherpad. Another thing I love is linked browsing. It allows you, while browsing with Internet Explorer, to capture a running log of your browsing. Plus the interoperability in the whole Office 2010 package, but especially in Outlook, has been updated and expanded.

Like someone else said it still has weak outlining functions and they seem to be moving what little outlining functionality there was to the back burner. Search is kinda bland, but for my work I use the collab features a lot, and I prefer 2010 to any previous version of OneNote.

What changes have been made?
I'm having a hard time telling from the MS website. It looks like most of the
improvements are in collaboration?

Tom S.

OneNote: handwriting recognition of maths equations would be extremely useful to scientists, teachers and students of maths (if it is what I understand it to be). I have friends and relations in the field who find using MS Word's Equations Editor tedious in the extreme.

Thanks to you and Chris and Hugh.

One thing I was able to glean from the web page that hasn't been mentioned is the existence of a web app. This *seems* to open the possibility that any database located on a web server could be accessed and edited on any phone with a decent browser. Those of use who keep our data on Dropbox *might* literally be able to access it anywhere. Quite an improvement if I read it right.

Tom S.

L. S. Russell wrote:

Aside from aesthetic changes, the collaboration tools are (IMHO) primo. Notebook
sharing is smooth, and there is built-in version system kinda like Etherpad. Another
thing I love is linked browsing. It allows you, while browsing with Internet
Explorer, to capture a running log of your browsing. Plus the interoperability in the
whole Office 2010 package, but especially in Outlook, has been updated and expanded.


Like someone else said it still has weak outlining functions and they seem to be
moving what little outlining functionality there was to the back burner. Search is
kinda bland, but for my work I use the collab features a lot, and I prefer 2010 to any
previous version of OneNote.

>What changes have been made?
>I'm having a hard time
telling from the MS website. It looks like most of the
>improvements are in
collaboration?
>
>Tom S.

If I remember correctly it is called SharePoint. But there is also something similar to GDocs I think it is called Office Live. But from my tentative experimentation, I don't think the two interact. That would be sweet.

Tom S. wrote:

Thanks to you and Chris and Hugh.

One thing I was able to glean from the web page that
hasn't been mentioned is the existence of a web app. This *seems* to open the
possibility that any database located on a web server could be accessed and edited on
any phone with a decent browser. Those of use who keep our data on Dropbox *might*
literally be able to access it anywhere. Quite an improvement if I read it right.

Tom
S.

The plan is for there to be a OneNote component to Office Live by the time it leaves beta. It wasn't available yet last time I checked, but perhaps that has changed.

There are already various mobile options for accessing OneNote documents on the go... there's an iPhone app and a Windows Mobile app. I'd imagine an Android one is in the pipeline.

-- Chris

L. S. Russell wrote:

If I remember correctly it is called SharePoint. But there is also something similar
to GDocs I think it is called Office Live. But from my tentative experimentation, I
don't think the two interact. That would be sweet.

Tom S. wrote:
>Thanks to you and
Chris and Hugh.
>
>One thing I was able to glean from the web page that
>hasn't been
mentioned is the existence of a web app. This *seems* to open the
>possibility that
any database located on a web server could be accessed and edited on
>any phone with a
decent browser. Those of use who keep our data on Dropbox *might*
>literally be able
to access it anywhere. Quite an improvement if I read it right.
>
>Tom
>S.

Chris Thompson wrote:

The plan is for there to be a OneNote component to Office Live by the time it leaves beta.
It wasn't available yet last time I checked, but perhaps that has changed.

Yeah. I found a better page on this:

http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2009/07/15/overview-of-onenote-2010-what-s-new-for-you.aspx

OneNote 2010 Investments Overview
1. Universal Access
We repeatedly hear that access to your notes and the ability to take them anywhere is very important, whether you?re at work, home or on the go. OneNote 2007 already provides offline availability and seamless sync, and a basic OneNote application for Windows Mobile. But we knew that was just the beginning. With OneNote 2010 we?ve added:

-Sync to Cloud (Windows Live): Your notebooks sync and are available anywhere from any machine. Of course this is in addition to all the existing ways you can sync notebooks (file shares, SharePoint, USB drives etc.)
-OneNote Web App: You can access and edit your entire notebook from a browser. Even on a machine that doesn?t have OneNote installed.
-OneNote Mobile: A more complete OneNote version for Windows Mobile phones. Syncs whole notebooks. Syncs directly to the cloud. No need to tether your device. Richer editing support.
Note: The above are not yet available in the Tech Preview unfortunately. We?re still finishing some integration work for sync to Windows Live.

There are, of course, other things listed.

Tom S.