Writers’ Best Friend: Microsoft OneNote
OneNote 2007
Some of the best computer tips out there aren’t ever “in the manual,” so to speak. We search the Web to see if someone before us has solved a problem or found an easier, better, and faster way of doing something we want to do. More recently, the convergence of blogs, broadband, and high-quality video have made this a great experience. Whether someone has taken the time to document a step-by-step tutorial about how they use a program, or whether they shoot a quick video about it, the best ideas can come from watching someone else work — letting us peek over their shoulder while they complete a real-world task with the software they’ve chosen, and then learning from their technique and style.
On Microsoft’s Office Online Web site, we recently launched our new Podcast site, which houses a large variety of free videos for all things Office. You can watch these videos from your Web browser or download them to your Zune or your iPod for later viewing. If you like a particular channel or series, you can subscribe to it (via RSS or via the Zune or iPod marketplaces) and get notified whenever new episodes are available.
As part of our new podcasting efforts, I’m very pleased to announce today the premiere episode of “A Writer’s Guide to Microsoft Office” — a new podcast series written and hosted by my teammate (and former editor), Joannie Stangeland. In her first episode, Joannie shows us how she uses a variety of OneNote 2007 features to manage poetry drafts that she prepares for submission to publishers.
To view the video, clik the blue link above.
March 19th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Hey Brick, thanks for calling attention to this. I blogged about it at the Inside Office Online blog as well. Joannie and Michael are on my team so my sneak peeks have confirmed that this is great stuff. (Especially for those of us who don’t seem to be able to stop writing when we stop working….:-) — Holly
March 20th, 2009 at 8:54 am
You’re welcome, Holly! Love the Microsoft Blogs: Office, MSDN, Live, etc. You guys do GREAT work over there.
OneNote has received kudos from almost every sector in the working world, such as Education, Science, IT, Humanities, Recipe clubs, Owners of Tablet PCs (ahem
) etc. It’s a shame it’s still a virtually unknown product. Hopefully through all these blogs and articles, OneNote will have many more “MOONies” (that is, MicrosOft OneNote ies).