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urlwolf:
There is a 180-day trial for oneNote at M$ for students and academics. That should take you up to the point where they will release 2007 I guess.

I'm loving it At the moment, it does the voice recording thingy for when you think the note is not worth writing...

urlwolf:
Here is a few reviews for oneNote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_OneNote
http://www.sagatug.org/Reviews/OneNote2003.htm

These are for the old version 2003.

melitabel:
This is the best discussion I've ever seen on this subject.  I am a research librarian who also works on knowledge management from the organizational and personal points of view (and they are very different).  My department is making some progress on the organization level - I am now trying to help people with personal knowledge management.

Since our needs go beyond note-taking to web capture and importing/accessing other files on one's machine from Word documents to email attachments, I want to ask whether I should open a new discussion topic.  I certainly wanted to acknowledge the quality of this discussion before doing so - I have benefited from the general discussion, since it stretched to organizing information as well as note-taking. 

I use Ever Note for my "little" notes to myself - user IDs and passwords, birthdays, etc; Net Snippets for reports to my clients when they consist of a lot of web-captured information that I want to organize and comment and; and I have used Personal Brain from The Brain, though I haven't bought it yet.  I've tried the IE version of Onfolio (I heard about it just after MS bought it); once used Info Select (back in the Word Perfect days) - in fact, I've dated many programs and so far married none myself (well, except Net Snippets, but I have nothing against software polygamy).

Johnk raised an issue of importance for me and my clients: do we keep adding specialist tool to specialist tool, or do we look for one main application with maybe a couple satellites?  I am trying for the latter, and I think most other people in my organization will as well.  Otherwise, we risk being slowed down too often by trying to figure out which program our data is in -- and the whole point is that we need to be information-centric, not program-centric.

mouser:
Welcome to the site melitabel, glad to have you here  :up:

ps. SuperboyAC's big Roundup of Notetaking Software #1 has now gone live:

* https://www.donationcoder.com/Reviews/Archive/NoteTakers1

orcsbr:
Hello, this is my first post on this forum. I have written an essay for the "My Dream App" software-idea contest about a month ago, based on my needs for a note-taking and general knowbase software. The core of my "system" is the use of tagging, and the fast-input of info, evetything else goes around this.

Unlike those who still think that tagging is just a web2.0 buzzword, i really think there's something useful into the concept of flexible categorization rather than taxonomies, and that it can provide indeed a new way of thinking about note-taking software instead of the hierarchical paradigm, that can be more flexible and fast to use. I also think that the few software availiable today that implement tagging, all of them do it on very limited way and/or uses the hierarchical structure as a model to it, which severely limits the capabilities of a flexible categorization system.

Since my explanation of my system is a little long, and i don't want to clog the forum, i ask that that may be interested to read it posted on my blog, and then, tell me what you think about it here.

http://indiegeek.blogspot.com/2006/08/taglogger-idea-for-tag-based-pimgeneral.html

Cheers,

- Paulo

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