ONENOTE

In this section we focus on a new program from Microsoft - OneNote. OneNote has gotten a number of "rave reviews" in the legal trade press. As Mark Voorhees has written in AmLaw Tech (May 5, 2004)

Microsoft may have finally written a program for lawyers, although it isn't aimed specifically at the legal market. Microsoft OneNote helps people take notes on their computer. Note taking is not rocket science, but it occupies a fair chunk of billable hours by lawyers.

OneNote has almost all the advantage of taking notes on paper without many of the limitations of paper. It's much easier to share, organize, and reuse electronic notes than handwritten ones. OneNote also has none of the disadvantages of taking notes on software designed for other purposes. You can type anywhere on the page, without following the top-down, left-to-right regimen of Word. You can add a new note without creating a new file. And you don't need to save your notes; the program does that for you automatically.

These are summarized in Jeff Beard's LawTech Guru Blog ( http://www.lawtechguru.com/archives/2004/05/25_taking_note_of_onenote.html ).

Another strongly positive review, for the PC tech audience is:

http://www.techworthy.com/Laptop/January2004/A-Month-With-OneNote.htm