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Summary: More than One Question for OneNote
Review: Above all, a notetaking program is supposed to make it easy to organize and find notes. With that purpose in mind, certain omissions in the program startle. Ordering notes within a section is as easy as it should be, but why did Microsoft make it hard to organize across sections and even harder to organize across folders? You can transfer a note from one section to another, but you cannot transfer it to a specific location within the section in a single operation. To transfer between folders, you have to use ordinary drag and drop. Software is supposed to make these processes easy, not complicate them with an anachronistic imagry of paper sections. Organizing and reorganizing is of the essence for notetaking, and the Office suite, of which OneNote is part, has a multi-clipboard. Why did Microsoft omit giving OneNote access to the Office clipboard, when OneNote is the Office product that needs it most. The functionality is already present in Office; Microsoft had to go out of its way to omit this functionality for OneNote. The saving grace of OneNote is that the underlying technology is very powerful. It gives you the ability to take notes by various means and to put them anywhere you want on the page. The core technology is powerful, but the feature set MS has chosen to develop lacks a rational foundation and appears impulsive.
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Summary: Microsoft OneNote = Easier Life!
Review: Being a college student on the go, a notebook computer is essential to my academic success. I have been fortunate enough to be a Beta Tester for Microsoft OneNote, and this program is amazing. Designed for Tablet PCs, it still works great on my Desktop and Notebook. I am capable of typing all my notes as the professor lectures. Many students enjoy paper and pen due to the ability to draw and sketch as needed. OneNote allows you to use mouse or touch pad to enter charts, graphs, or sketches right into the notes. Notes are easy to print, save, share, and sort with OneNote. In the past I always wrote my notes and had to try to pay attention to the professor, read the overheads, and write straight and legibly so I could read the notes for later. I always had to try and read three different things at a time. Now, I can just type away while looking at the professor and overheads allowing me to pay better attention to the professor.
Why is this better than Word? Because it is designed with the power of Word, but with all the easy to access tools needed for Note taking. Colored Pens tools, fonts, bullets, outlines, all easily accessible from the Menus. While I love my Notebook computer, I love it even more with OneNote! Microsoft OneNote, making College Students Life easier!!!
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Summary: Microsoft OneNote 2003
Review: Help! What happened to my order placed for this product Microsoft OneNote 2003, last Wednesday (Australia time)on my VISA card?
Adrian Turnbull
160 Arcadia Road
Arcadia
NSW 2159
AUSTRALIA.
Please email reply.
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Summary: Good but needs work.
Review: I also am a law school student and am using this software instead of Word to create my outlines. I have noticed some things that are missing. For example: No find and replace, limited autocorrect functionality, no save as (backup is automated and somewhat limited), no support for inserting Tables. Everyday I find something new.... Also, you can't easily see the formatting, so every once in a while I end up with a 1 inch wide column of text that I cannot correct.
The interface is really nice and I love having all my notes in one place and organized by tabs. I'm using it on a normal laptop and find it helpful, but like someone above, I think in it's current state it's only worth $30-50, Not $200.
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Summary: GREAT!
Review: I CAN'T REALLY WAIT TO GET MY COPY OF THIS, BY THE LOOKS OF THE SCREENSHOTS THE GRAPHICS ARE INCREDIBLE!!!11
i THINK MICROSOFT HAS REALLY PRODUCED AN EXCELLENT PIECE OF SOFTWARE THIS TIME IVE NEVER PLAYED IT BUT MY FRIENDS TELL ME ALL HOW COOL IT IS OMG!
DEFINATELY IF YOU ARE A FAN OF STICKY NOTES, OR YOU CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO TYPE YOUR NOTES INTO NOTEPAD, THIS PROGRAM IS PROBABLY WORTH THE MONEY SO BUY IT LIKE I DID^
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Summary: Great software for students
Review: I downloaded the 60 day trial from Microsoft and tried this halfway thru my semester. It was just in time for my professor to assign 8 internet journal articles. I was able to copy and paste them into tabbed pages within a section of the folder. After I finished reading them (while being able to highlight what I thought would be important) I was able to search for the information on our final exam study guide. It made completing the study guide much easier than the previous two (about 10 hours of my time compared with approximately 35 hours each). I was also working on a research paper at the same time and was able to copy and paste my information into pages within a separate section of the folder. this allowed me to mark the information I thought was important and to mark the info I wanted to quote by flagging it and then bringing up anything that was flagged. It made finishing my semester much easier and more organized than the first half of my semester. One thing that I was disappointed with is the fact that it does not work very well with anything other than Office 2003. I am running Office 2000 and have problems with trying to copy and paste anything into Word because it will not stay formatted in an outline. Now I am thinking about upgrading to Office 2003 so everything will work together better. That being said, I do plan to use my laptop to take notes in class rather than the standard paper and pen. I will keep a small notebook near me so I can draw anything that comes along a little easier than I can with this program. Then I can transfer it into my notes later. If you are a student or teacher and can get this software with the academic pricing I highly recommend it because you will save yourself a small fortune. The Microsoft website tells you how to find it at the academic licensing of right at $50. You can check your state a find a place or even do a search online for companies that sell it at the academic price, but be prepared to show proof of eligibility for the discounted price.
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Summary: ONENOTE a good start but lacks some features
Review: I have tested Microsoft OneNote and here are my impressions. I have thought of this kind of software years (12 years ago) before Microsoft, but I didn't know how to program. This is when Apple and other Pen Computing companies were coming out with "Tablet PC". I am glad that Microsoft is developing this software now. It is a good piece of software, perhaps better than MS WORD in years to come. However, $199US is too expensive to charge consumer especially it doesn't have enough features as MS WORD. I think $39-$69 is more realistic for it's first version. I hope the programmers of OneNote take notes on these good and bad points. First the good points:
- I like the interface; very flexible and easy to learn.
- I like being able to type, write anywhere and cut and paste from the webpages.
- I like the research tools both in the documents and websites.
- I like "extra insert writing space" that allow you to stretch your document as much as you want** The bad points:
- No security protection on your documents
- Too easy to delete documents
- Doesn't allow OLE objects like video, MP3 audio, Flash, etc., to be inserted into documents. Only links. But even with this link feature, it is still user "unfriendly."
- No interlinking feature that allow documents to cross reference within the documents.
- Audio feature is primitive. No very fexible.
- No indexing feature- like automatic table of content, or indexes at the end of each section.
- Inflexible templates; pre-made templates doesn't really allow users to make their own
- Need to add drawing features like MS WORD
- Need to be to convert to PDF file, and import/export into WORD docs =================================
** Unrated/questionable points: - Tablet pc is needed to optimized the use of this software.
- Unknown amount of paper size (I don't know if it can store unlimited amount of electronic inks without crashing the system). Microsoft never point this out on their website. - THERE ARE LOTS MORE POINTS BUT THERE AREN'T ENOUGH ROOM TO LISTED HERE. HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR ONENOTE. s.c.,
www.smarten.net
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Summary: OneNote is terrible for use with TabletPC!
Review: I have used OneNote for about a month, and don't plan on going back!
Big problems:
-Buggy!! People keep saying how "mature" this product is, but it "freaks out" on me pretty regularly. It starts duplicating inks in random places while I write! Once this happens, it wont work properly with anything short of a reboot.
-TERRIBLE INK SUPPORT!!!! If OneNote was as good as Journal at manipulating Ink, life would be swell. But OneNote's attempt to make ink containers more text-like means the results of copy/cut & paste is a NIGHTMARE. I cant just select an area of text. If OneNote thinks that the one word I put in Red is a different paragraph (and it usually does..) and does not select with the rest of the paragraph/sentence. Same with trying to add space in the middle of a document. SOME of the closest paragraph move down, only to covers/overlay lower paragraphs that DIDN'T move down properly. Journal + OneNote's organization/tabs would be awesome. OneNote v1.0.. it totally unusable..
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Summary: Too expensive for what it does
Review: I tried the trial version of this product and found it to be no more than a glorified post it note program. It wouldn't be a bad program if it didn't cost so much. If you need to keep track of any kind of information and a whole lot more I suggest Info Select from Micro Logic. I have been using it for years and every version adds new features and flexibility. It is a much better manager than Microsoft's One Note.
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Summary: Fantastic product for students
Review: I'll repeat the sentiments of other students...I'm in law school and am doing the OneNote beta test. I take notes on a standard laptop, and OneNote is much nicer for this task than Word; it's far superior in ease of formatting, allows you to quickly search through all of your notes, lets you free draw, and has sound recording and tablet pc options I haven't even touched. It also organizes all of your notes into one large database, removing the trouble of either having multiple word documents or incredibly long documents. It's essentially a virtual notebook, with pages and dividers that you create. The database format made me uneasy at first, but I have not lost any data in the program, even after system crashes. I will definitely be purchasing the program when the beta expires. Highly reccommended for students who rely on their laptops.
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