Warning: Geek Post

2nd Warning: MS Geek Post

Yesterday I started playing around with a program I hadn’t really noticed before, Microsoft Office OneNote 2007, which I have on both my work and home laptops thanks to it being part of the Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate Suite.

For those of you not familiar with it OneNote is a funky little application that lets you take notes and snippets of data from all over the place such as screen grabs, websites, Outlook emails, stuff from your smartphone, sound, images and video etc (in fact pretty much anything) and dump them in a central place and organise them into pages, sections and notebooks. Rather like a nice collection of electronic Moleskins.

I’m just getting into it but finding it incredibly useful, especially as a coder; dumping code snippets, ideas from websites, things out of PDF versions of books, arranging them around the various projects I’m working on. I’m going to give it a week or two as my primary ideas store/scratchpad and then decide if I’m going stick with it but there are plenty of “oh that’s neat!” and “I wonder if I can do that, cool! It works just how I would have expected it would.” moments, which for a MS app is a bit of a surprise.

PS this post was written in OneNote and then exported to WordPress. Nifty.