OneNote 2007 - The face that SharePoint should always have had!
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Running 3 main computers (4 if you count my Windows Mobile device) gives you a good feel for the issues with managing and synchronizing content between them. My current solution is that I keep all of my content on servers and use clients that can connect to them. The current solutions that I'm running are:
- Outlook/Exchange for email (duh!).
- VSTS/TFS for code.
- OneNote/SharePoint for all of my notes and drawings.
- Groove/SharePoint for all of my documents and files.
If you haven't used OneNote 2007 I would highly recommend that you give it a go. The added flexibility gained with the addition of Notebooks is really useful as it allows you to create a Notebook for each thing/project in your life. For example, I'm running a notebook for each project that I'm managing and one for my personal stuff (which I password protect).
The cool part is that these Notebooks can actually be located in SharePoint - meaning that you can share them with team members. Just like a Wiki only a very rich version with many more features than your standard web based wiki. Some of the nicest features are:
- I can work in both a connected and disconnected state. This allows me to work while on a plane and sync my changes up when I hit the ground.
- Search. The OneNote search can even search text within images. OneNote notebooks stored in SharePoint will also participate in SharePoint search.
- You also get the Tag functionality to be able to mark your content with tags.
- Ability to embed rich content - such as files, sounds, etc.
- Ability to Ink.
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It's great, isn't it?
posted by
TristanK
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3/3/2007 9:48:22 PM
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I love it - you should try using the audio recording while note taking feature - when you play back the audio, it highlights what you were doodling at the time (plus, if you missed something at a meeting while doodling, you can hear it again!)
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Nice tips TristanK
posted by
Aymeric
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3/5/2007 10:38:03 PM
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It is a nice tip TristanK, thank you, I didn't know OneNote was able to do that.
I love it ! (Especially since I discovered the Sharepoint Sharing feature)