Product Review - Microsoft OneNote 2007 - Good for GTD Application
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I’ve been using OneNote 2007 now for about three weeks. I’ve got it on my flash drive as a portable app, and have it at home on both the desktop and the laptop. I have been using the sync tool on my Cruzer flash drive to sync from work to drive, and drive to home. This way, I always have my notebooks with me and can make changes to any of them at the blink of an eye!
OneNote is truly just like a notebook: it has notebooks, sections, pages and section groups. Please click on the image here and you will see the components listed in red. You can have templates for your pages of the types listed below:
Agendas
Calendars
2008 calendars | 2007 calendars | 2006 calendars | More…
Diagrams
Network diagrams
Forms
Healthcare
Invitations
Party
Lists
Business | Healthcare | Home
Minutes
Plans
Home
Planners
Reports
Schedules
Stationery
Specialty paper
Time sheets
More categories
Address books | Charts | Evaluations | More…
For just about anything that you want, you can find a template or create one yourself.
You can also easily adapt this to the GTD styles, with making your notebooks in the order of Action, Next Action, and Someday. Your sections could then contain the projects that you are working on, and pages could be completed or not completed.
You can gather screen clippings:
You can search all your text, and it will even search test INSIDE pictures!
Put OneNote’s into Outlook and back to OneNote with bi-directional support.
Send notes to others’ even if they don’t have OneNote.
OneNot
e also supports shared notebooks, so all people on a project can work on and share notes at the same time. When stored on a server or network drive, sharing OneNote is a breeze.
I gave OneNote 2007 a rating of 9.5, because there is always room for improvement within an application. An out-of-the-box portable version or an online version would be absolutely fantastic, as MS doesn’t support one natively. I have yet to see a note taking application online that is as comprehensive as OneNote. Included templates for GTD would be greatly appreciated as well, as I only found one online and that was just a page, not an entire notebook…..buy perhaps I shall make one!
Should you want the portable version, post a comment and I will email you the link privately..
For more information about OneNote, visit the Microsoft OneNote page. To purchase OneNote, pick it up on eBay: you can get full functional non activated versions at really great prices!
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