The only thing I didn’t like is the fact that all the text is in boxes on the page. The text layout and formatting are exemplary. Blocks of text can be tagged individually and the tags appear as small icons to the left of the text.
It is just a flat list and it is in a drop down box so don’t expect to be able to have thousands of tags, it gets cumbersome with any more than forty or fifty tags, so this is for broad classifications and as such it is not particularly useful. I don’t have Microsoft Outlook as my default mail client and when I tried to ‘send to email client’ it opened my default mail client and then brought up an error message in a dialog box. It seems like all Microsoft products are deliberately designed to work with each other in such a way as to try to lock you in to only using Microsoft products. So you can send a page or put a received E-mail into a page but only if you are using Microsoft Outlook. OneNote also works with Microsoft Outlook to send and receive E-mail. But don’t expect to be able to embed the output from programs in your OneNote pages. So you will be able to embed Excel spreadsheets, Power Point presentations and Word documents within OneNote pages and it all works as expected. Microsoft products unsurprisingly implement both the OLE server and client correctly. There are many many programs out there which either don’t implement the OLE server correctly or don’t implement it at all. The program displaying the result needs to implement the OLE client correctly but also the program sending the data has to implement the OLE server correctly. This is because it has to be correctly implemented at both ends for it to work properly. OLE should have been great for displaying the output from one program within another but unfortunately it has not been so good in practice. You can also use OLE to embed files within a page, but this only seems to work well with other Microsoft products.
If you generate a ‘hyperlink’ to a page in OneNote and then paste it into another program then what is pasted looks exactly like a universal link to a OneNote page, and works exactly like a universal link (so why the non standard nomenclature). Within OneNote you can hyperlink to specific pages within any OneNote notebook, it supports hyperlinks to files on the local file system and of course hyperlinks to URL’s on the internet. This program supports universal links, however it calls them Hyperlinks. Verdict I don’t like it but I know a lot of people love it, good if you don’t mind being locked into the Microsoft hegemony. I don’t know if it is available separately. I checked on the Microsoft website and the only option which seemed to be available was ‘Buy with Office’ and of course only the latest version is available. I don’t know what the price of OneNote is. I regard this as a toy note taking program, so this will be a biased review but it portrays my honest opinion. I cannot say this definitely because I have only used this program for a few weeks some years ago (apart from the work I did to prepare this review). There are some advanced facilities within this program, like OCR on pictures and images and recording of audio clips for spoken notes but in my opinion this is only a good program if you have a small number of notes, if you have a substantial number of notes I would imagine it is not so good. The version I was testing is Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 (because that’s the one I have). You can have multiple notebooks open at once. There is also no bulk export so that once you have a substantial number of notes in OneNote you are effectively ‘locked in’, because the more notes you have the more effort it would be to change programs. RTF files) individually and copy and paste it into a note. To get all my notes into OneNote I would have to open each note (I have them stored as. I was unable to conduct the test of a notebook with over one thousand notes because Microsoft OneNote does not have a bulk import facility. This note taking program stores its notes in separate files, each notebook is a folder on the hard disk within which the notes are stored. Using OneNote one gets the impression that many of the features which have been added were added for the specific purpose of ticking a box in the advertising. It has many of the features of the other note taking programs but is not as useful as some of them because more work has gone into making it look pretty than has gone into getting the functionality correct. OneNote is part of the Microsoft Office suite.
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