I installed the Microsoft OneNote beta on my TabletPC when it was first released, months and months ago, and absolutely hated the pen input. It lasted about two days before get­ting uninstalled.

We got some licences in the office the other day, so on a whim I installed it on my desk­top PC, and it’s bloody amaz­ing. All the post-it notes have dis­ap­peared from my desk. All the fold­ers and ran­dom pieces of paper, gone. I have fold­ers for all the gen­eral areas I work on — one for projects, one for SEO, one for inter­nal projects — and tabs for each dif­fer­ent client or site within each. And it’s all nicely laid out so I can see it in one glance. The pro­gram stays open all day. I’m all dig­i­tal now, baby!

I’m a lit­tle sur­prised it doesn’t sup­port embed­ding or link­ing of Office doc­u­ments, but it is a ver­sion 1.0 so I’m sure that will improve later. The one fea­ture it doesn’t have that I wish it did was a way of insert­ing the cur­rent date and time when I make a note. It dat­e­stamps the whole page, but I don’t want to start a whole new page every time I want to scrib­ble some­thing down. I might make Dave code me some kind of Win­dows util­ity to solve that prob­lem, mu ha ha (evil laugh).