Microsoft OneNote 2003 [Old Version]

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Product Features

• This unique tool gives you a new way to jot down notes for your self, organize them and keep track of things in your day-to-day life
• Take notes anywhere on the screen -- you can even handwrite notes or draw diagrams for yourself, using a pen input device on your laptop or tablet
• Record audio notes you can synchronize to your written notes, to make you never miss anything
• Put pictures, text, and other information from a Web site directly into OneNote 2003 -- just drag and drop
• Create multiple notebooks, folders or pages, and search through them

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000AZJVG
• Item model number: s26-00558
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 12, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,650 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

OneNote 2003, the newest member of Microsoft Office System, lets you capture, organize, and use your notes on desktop computers, laptops, and Tablet PCs. You get one place to store all your notes and the freedom to work with them how you want.

Features:

• Capture notes and information in one place: collect all your information in one place--type notes, record audio, copy graphics from the Web or other programs, or handwrite or draw on a Tablet PC.
• Organize notes the way you prefer: Create multiple sections for different projects or classes. Arrange, separate, or combine notes and other content anywhere on the page.
• Quickly find the information you need: you can quickly and easily search across all your notes to find key information, whether it's a client's phone number or an important reminder.
• Prioritize important items more efficiently: Highlight key ideas, reminders, or follow-up tasks in OneNote with Note Flags. View all of your Note Flags at once, customize them to highlight key categories.
• Share and use your notes more easily: Make your notes more legible, organized, and easy to share or use. E-mail notes, publish them as Web pages, copy and paste into Word or PowerPoint.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great software for students, December 21, 2003

By	"tazmom588" (Sumter, SC United States) - See all my reviews

I downloaded the 60 day trial from Microsoft and tried this halfway thru my semester. It was just in time for my professor to assign 8 internet journal articles. I was able to copy and paste them into tabbed pages within a section of the folder. After I finished reading them (while being able to highlight what I thought would be important) I was able to search for the information on our final exam study guide. It made completing the study guide much easier than the previous two (about 10 hours of my time compared with approximately 35 hours each). I was also working on a research paper at the same time and was able to copy and paste my information into pages within a separate section of the folder. this allowed me to mark the information I thought was important and to mark the info I wanted to quote by flagging it and then bringing up anything that was flagged. It made finishing my semester much easier and more organized than the first half of my semester.

One thing that I was disappointed with is the fact that it does not work very well with anything other than Office 2003. I am running Office 2000 and have problems with trying to copy and paste anything into Word because it will not stay formatted in an outline. Now I am thinking about upgrading to Office 2003 so everything will work together better.

That being said, I do plan to use my laptop to take notes in class rather than the standard paper and pen. I will keep a small notebook near me so I can draw anything that comes along a little easier than I can with this program. Then I can transfer it into my notes later.

If you are a student or teacher and can get this software with the academic pricing I highly recommend it because you will save yourself a small fortune. The Microsoft website tells you how to find it at the academic licensing of right at $50. You can check your state a find a place or even do a search online for companies that sell it at the academic price, but be prepared to show proof of eligibility for the discounted price.

88 of 105 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ONENOTE a good start but lacks some features, November 12, 2003

By A Customer

I have tested Microsoft OneNote and here are my impressions. I have thought of this kind of software years (12 years ago) before Microsoft, but I didn't know how to program. This is when Apple and other Pen Computing companies were coming out with "Tablet PC". I am glad that Microsoft is developing this software now. It is a good piece of software, perhaps better than MS WORD in years to come. However, $199US is too expensive to charge consumer especially it doesn't have enough features as MS WORD. I think $39-$69 is more realistic for it's first version. I hope the programmers of OneNote take notes on these good and bad points.

First the good points:
- I like the interface; very flexible and easy to learn.
- I like being able to type, write anywhere and cut and paste from the webpages.
- I like the research tools both in the documents and websites.
- I like "extra insert writing space" that allow you to stretch your document as much as you want**

The bad points:
- No security protection on your documents
- Too easy to delete documents
- Doesn't allow OLE objects like video, MP3 audio, Flash, etc., to be inserted into documents. Only links. But even with this link feature, it is still user "unfriendly."
- No interlinking feature that allow documents to cross reference within the documents.
- Audio feature is primitive. No very fexible.
- No indexing feature- like automatic table of content, or indexes at the end of each section.
- Inflexible templates; pre-made templates doesn't really allow users to make their own
- Need to add drawing features like MS WORD
- Need to be to convert to PDF file, and import/export into WORD docs

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** Unrated/questionable points:

- Tablet pc is needed to optimized the use of this software.
- Unknown amount of paper size (I don't know if it can store unlimited amount of electronic inks without crashing the system). Microsoft never point this out on their website.

- THERE ARE LOTS MORE POINTS BUT THERE AREN'T ENOUGH ROOM TO LISTED HERE. HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR ONENOTE.

s.c.,
www.smarten.net

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Research Tool, December 13, 2003

By	Paul J. Pinella (Winchester, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've been using OneNote since the beta, and have come to really appreciate it as a research tool. As a writer/analyst and principal for Radar Marketing, I find OneNote ideal for gathering all of my information into one area, organized by tabs. One very strong feature is the ability to copy and paste, or drag and drop, web pages into OneNote. From here, it's easy to further annotate the pages with boldfacing or flags and to organize entire sections into tabs.

The search feature is very nice and seemingly much faster than Word. You can search through a single tabbed topic or across your entire notebook very quickly, with OneNote highlighting the words and showing where everything is to be found in the task bar on the right. It's almost like having your own private Google based on your research notebook.

Creating outlines, and expanding and collapsing them is quite easy and intuitive, more so than Word. It's up to you whether you want to use outlining, though. OneNote gives you so many ways to organize your material that the choice is up to you.

FOr a first release, Microsoft has done a good job. Some things need more attention. Other reviewers have pointed out lack of internal links and basic word processing features. What I would like to see is more support of drag and drop for organizing pages and tabbed sections. Moving these around isn't as simple as it should be. Finally, as others have said, it's not worth $200, but I doubt anybody is going to need to pay that much based on the discounts I'm seeing. I'm going to recommend this to my www.radarmarketing.biz clients whenever the need for a quality research tool comes up.