I would be very interested in any user experience/feedback/advice from members of the DC forum, relating to the use of
Jello Dasboard and MS
OneNote.
Because it seemed to offer some significant potential benefits as a combined
PIM (Personal Information Manager) and
GTD (Getting Things Done) tool, I have recently downloaded
Jello Dasboard and commenced trialling it, with a view to using it to replace a large part of my current dependency on the PIM
Info Select - which latter I have been a long-term user of. (Info Select is discussed elsewhere in the DC forum.)
I have also been trialling
OneNote for some time, again with a view to using it to replace a large part of my current dependency on
Info Select.
The thing is that
Jello Dashboard necessitates the use of
Outlook (because it is an add-on to - and integrates with Outlook), and
Onenote is definitely more useful if used in conjunction with
Outlook.
Though I have had MS Outlook installed on my PCs and laptops for years (it comes with MS Office), I detest using it because of the proprietary and constipated way of working that it forces on the user - though I appreciate that it has many excellent features.
So, I have avoided using Outlook except when I have been obliged to use it when working on client-owned PCs/workstations.
However, to trial Jello Dashboard, I have to use Outlook. I must overcome my distaste for the latter because the potential benefits offered by Jello would seem to be too great to ignore.
I feel sure that others will have "been there, done that" before me, and I am hoping that the user experience/feedback/advice from members of DC forum on this subject might save me some time, error and frustration and help me to avoid re-inventing the wheel in evaluating Jello and OneNote.
Thanks in advance for any help you might feel able to offer. By the way, the only useful reference I could find in a search on "Jello" in the DC forum was a brief one in a discussion
Managing projects with OUTLOOK on 2007-10-08.