Microsoft OneNote Home and Student 2007 Review

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(More customer reviews)I am not a big Microsft fan and usually find their products bloated with unneeded features, slow, and unintuitive. However, OneNote 2007 is a real gem and has quickly become indispensible. I was a prior user of OneNote 2003 (which was a good application), but OneNote 2007 is a true upgrade and is worth the upgrade price.
Some think OneNote is only for handwriting recognition applications. This is simply not true. I have never used the handwriting recognition features but find OneNote 2007 to be a very, very powerful and flexible organizational tool. The OneNote concept is based on notebooks (in 2007 you can have multiple notebooks which is a huge improvement). Essentially, you can create a notebook for your project. Then you can create tabs in that notebook. Then you can create pages within the tabs. For example, I have used the tool for internship-job searches. I create a job search notebook, tabs for locations, and then pages for specific employers. For each employer, I can create one or more sub pages with my resume, cover letter, research on the organization, job ads, etc.
What is so amazing about OneNote 2007 is that is breaks the usual rules for applications. It is disorienting at first to see how flexible OneNote is, and this flexibility is uncommon in computer programs. You open a page and go. No cumbersome saving, folder creation, styles, fighting with columns, fighting with tables., etc. OneNote allows you to WORK rather than spend copious time formatting. Send a web page or HTML clip to the OneNote page. Record a voice note and attach it to the page. Start typing anywhere on the page (no formatting or typewriter like limitations). Or draw a diagram. In Outlook 2007, you can even send emails to a page so you can keep correspondence with the project information. Then insert either a copy of a document (e.g., Word or excel) or insert an image than can be annotated of the document itself into the page for quick reference. Then create a task or to do list in OneNote and have it appear in your Outlook calendar or to do list. Very powerful. Then save your notebook pages to PDFs or send them to Word. Plus, you can quickly search across note books, embed hyperlinks in pages, etc.
As indicated before, I am not a Microssoft fan, but I am a huge OneNote fan. OneNote 2007 is truly amazing and is an exceptional organizational tool. If you tried OneNote 2003 and found it good but limiting, try OneNote 2007. It is vastly improved. You may quickly become addicted to OneNote.


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