honestly, i think its the best idea that microsoft has come out with so far. i love it! i use it for nearly everything. for those of you who arent familiar with microsoft office one note, heres my short description of the program: imagine being able to have a gigantic notebook with an unlimited number of sections. within each section, you can create either a group of sections or sub sections. under each subsection, you have individual pages. for each page, you can type things in their own little boxes, move boxes around, make tables, graphs, insert media, etc. you can even password protect sections so that no one else can access them. on top of that, onenote allows you to take screen shots, draw with a drawing tool (or with a drawing pad if you have one), search your notebooks for phrases, much more! plus its constantly backing up, so you dont have to hit "save," just in case youre one of those people who forget and wind up losing everything because your computer crashed. then, you can also back it all up to a disk or hard drive or flash drive, plus transfer it to another computer. if you save things from the internet, it automatically copies the link and pastes it into onenote along with the text that you copied. that way, if you want to find the website later, you just go to the quote and click on the link. theres so much more that you can do with it too! ive had it for 4 years now, on three different computers. i have yet to be disappointed! and i dont think ive even been able to discover all of its capabilities. definetly worth the $100! ps: i use the student edition.

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Thanks for the great feedback. I'm finding it's so easy to use. It's integrated with all the Office suite (and Outlook) making one-click copies from other apps and automatically slaps your scraps of info into One Note automatically. For those of us ADD'ers who have a gazillion scraps of paper with scribbled notes...Stop! Get OneNote. You can also sync it to a SmartPhone too (I beleive - that's my next investment). FYI, you can find new licensed copies of it on Ebay for $25 (instead of $100).

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mcmike said: Stop! Get OneNote. You can also sync it to a SmartPhone.

How are you using OneNote on a PC? Do you need to have some sort of digital pen tool?

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You can use it with one of those, but not necessary. I simply use it on my laptop for storing lots of info, and things I need to remember. I guess One Note 2010 (coming out this month) is supposed to give you a way to access it from the Internet as well.

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...a neat program and i have started using it slowly...i love the screen clipping feature.

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Evernote works the same as Onenote, but has many additional features. It can be used on your computer or on the web from any internet browser, even your smartphone. You can record voice memo's, attach documents, email documents or files into the program. Way more than I can list here.

Onenote can also be used online now with the new Office 365 and Microsoft web apps.

I'm a huge technology fan and often overwhelm myself with new programs and applications. I use both of these programs, but recently started to move over to using Evernote more because of the flexibility and function. You can find it at http://blog.evernote.com/2010/07/23/evernote-essentials/.

There is a free version that works fine for me and a paid version that offers more storage space. One of the coolest features of this program is that no matter how you add information, online, computer, smartphone - everything syncs so your information is always up to date.

HTH, Wenda Rogers

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The more continent I put in, the more I have to spend thinking "how it should be organized to keep it a useful tool for me to use". I often get frustrated the more i used it thinking my info is beginning to get disorganized. I then spend too much time toiling over "how" I should be using it. At the very least it is a single place to create electronic post it notes.

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It doesn't matter a whole lot how its organized as long as I throw in some key words that will help me search for the note later. I do a lot of picture notes since Evernote is great at reading the text (OCR). At 43, I know that I will never have what it takes to keep something like OneNote organized.

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It doesn't matter a whole lot how its organized as long as I throw in some key words that will help me search for the note later. I do a lot of picture notes since Evernote is great at reading the text (OCR). At 43, I know that I will never have what it takes to keep something like OneNote organized.

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Just a follow-up to Dave's comments above. OneNote also has Optical Character Recogniton and lets you put key word tags in your info as well.

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