For example, I access Meeting Notes, Windows Weekly, and First Ring Daily almost exclusively on the PC. There is only one section, with five pages, each of which is for a specific day and is overwritten each week as we go (Mobile Monday, Tech Tuesday, We Help Wednesday, Throwback Thursday, and Future Friday).ĭay to day, I do all of my note-taking by typing, rather than handwriting. This is the most recent and simple of the notebooks, which I started so Brad and I could collaborate on the podcast. It’s shared with Mary Jo, so we can collaborate on the notes, and with various people at TWiT so they can access the notes during the show.įirst Ring Daily.
This one has about six years of show notes (2011-present), with a unique section (e.g. My original content roadmap for is here, for example. This notebook contains five sections representing the five most recent years of meeting notes (2012-2016) plus more sections for internal meetings and notes from sources.
So now this is the notebook I access most often from mobile, and the least on my PCs. But my Quick Notes and phone scans go here too. At one point, I was using it sort of like Pocket before there was a Pocket, and was saving articles there, but I’ve moved on to Pocket for that. This is my person notebook, and I have sections for our annual home swap, unusual foods and drink I want to remember (sushi, Indian food, sake), and more. Today, I maintain four separate notebooks, all in (consumer) OneDrive. These changes have transformed OneNote from useful to ubiquitous.įrom an organizational perspective, things have likewise changed over the years. It is literally everywhere and, more to the point, everywhere I am out in the world. So I can access OneNote on my Windows-based PCs, of course, but also on the web (and thus on Chromebooks), Macs, Android handsets and tablets, Windows phones and tablets, iPhone and iPad.
Which is that OneNote is now available everywhere, and for free. This is the correct way to store this kind of information, because it means you can access it from any device, leading to point number two. Looking back on the past decade or so, there are two major changes that have really impacted my OneNote usage.įirst, OneNote moved from local, PC-based storage to the cloud, first as an option and then as a requirement for most. (Sorry.) I also wrote a post called A Personal History of Microsoft OneNote that documents my early experiences with the first versions of the application. There are some interesting tips in the comments too, plus the usual assortment of noise. If you haven’t, please do check out A Few Tips for Integrating OneNote Into Your Life. Following up on last week’s OneNote posts, I thought I’d open up my own notebooks and explain how I use this product every day.
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