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Posted by Slartibartfarst
Apr 20, 2018 at 04:58 AM

 

Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>... Must be me the problem, but I can not see OneNote, as
>anything more than a paper notebook on steroids…
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No, no. You’re not the problem at all. As a longtime user of OneNote - my 8+ years long “experimental trial” - I would have to say that your description of OneNote is pretty much exactly right! It’s a very apt description.
It hasn’t entirely made my paper notebooks obsolete, but it has enabled me to go paper-less (reduced my use of and reliance on all kinds of paper-based information) and it has enabled indexing/search of two or three new data types - audio/audio-video and images/OCR. Couldn’t really do that with paper…
Coincidentally, I had recently commenced planning a strategic migration path from OneNote to (probably) IQ…