Category Archives: OneNote

Evernote Users, Take Note – OneNote, That Is.

15 Tuesday Mar 2016

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Microsoft Goes After Evernote With OneNote Transfer Tool, by Angela Moscaritolo, PC World

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2500700,00.asp

Redmond [Microsoft] just fired the first battle shot, releasing a tool that lets you easily transfer all your to-dos from Evernote to its own OneNote service. . . .

While both services are available across platforms, OneNote offers additional benefits like free offline access to notes on mobile, unlimited monthly uploads, and the ability to “write anywhere on the page with free-form canvas,” Microsoft said. . . .

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OneNote 2007 — Technology Suitable For Your Next Trial Notebook?

23 Sunday Aug 2015

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The Trial Lawyer’s Electronic Notebook, by Bruce A. Olson, ONLAW Trial Technologies, LLC (Applies to Microsoft Office OneNote 2007)

http://tinyurl.com/p259x62

In my experience, it is rare to find two lawyers who prepare exactly the same way for trial. Some folks still adhere to tradition – banker’s boxes filled with pleadings, witness files, deposition transcriptions, etc. Others rely solely on technology, which is great as long as the judge’s courtroom has adequate resources and space. Others prefer a combination of the two.

Certainly, if your jury is filled with younger people, please use technology rather than cumbersome foam boards on easels for presentations to the jury. Otherwise, you will likely bore them to death and quickly lose their attention.

I found this example intriguing because it uses OneNote. Granted it is the 2007 version, but it still gives an excellent example of how to use this type of technology to organize a trial notebook. I am not saying this is the only type of technology that can be used in to prepare trial notebooks. Hopefully it will give you inspiration to try this method or another type of technology at trial. -CCE

My opposing counsel kept looking at me with obvious envy as I made my argument to the judge why certain key evidence should be excluded from the trial we were involved in. I could tell from the look on the attorney’s face that he was puzzled how I could refer to portions of the record, prior witness testimony, exhibits, case law, and a brief that I had previously submitted, all without a single piece of paper in front of me. The only thing I used was my laptop and a mouse. He sat at a table with loose papers piled haphazardly, manila folders strewn about, and a Bankers Box on the floor, stuffed to overflowing. . . .

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Microsoft OneNote – Why We Should Be Using It.

27 Monday Oct 2014

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Tools For Writing: Microsoft Onenote, by Matthew Stibbe, Bad Language Blog

http://tinyurl.com/k9kwmkv

I feel stupid. I have this on my computer, but have not used it. That will definitely change. – CCE

Microsoft OneNote, the underdog pretender to Evernote’s crown, is a growing part of my life. I’ve used the digital notebook application, on and off, for many years. I tried switching to Evernote a couple of times but always came back, like the prodigal son. (Full disclosure: Microsoft is a client of Articulate’s but this is just my own personal review.)

Indeed, there are many things to like about OneNote:

  • Hierarchical structure. You have notebooks, tabs, pages and sub-pages. For a tidy-minded person like me, this works better than using tags to categorise notes.
  • Encryption. You can password-protect and encrypt whole sections of your notes.
  • Familiar interface. It looks and feels a lot like Microsoft Word, which is where I spend most of my life. Evernote’s roots are more HTML and sometimes that shows in the limited formatting options.
  • Multiple elements. It’s easy to embed and scale multiple pictures, add diagrams and handwritten notes and mix up multiple text boxes on the same page. It feels like a digital notebook should feel – flexible.

But until recently, it fell short of its potential. That’s changing. Here’s why:

  • Solid multi-platform support. I can – and do – use OneNote on my PC, Mac, web browser, iPhone, iPad and Android. Notebooks synchronise smoothly across all the devices.
  • Price. It’s free on all platforms and you can use it with a free OneDrive subscription or, as I do, with an Office 365 account and OneDrive for Business.
  • Pen support. I don’t have a pen-equipped Microsoft Surface but my Samsung Galaxy Note has a pen and OneNote works well with it.
  • Sharing. It’s easy to share notebooks with colleagues. For example, I just created one where we can archive useful sources and web pages.
  • Change highlighting. When someone changes something in a shared notebook, the changes are nicely highlighted when you log in. I think this is going to be an increasingly important feature.
  • Integrations. It works with Feedly, my RSS-reader of choice and IFTTT. More integrations are happening.
  • Capture. There’s a screen clipping app and a web page grabber that drops new content straight into OneNote pages, where you can annotate them.

Overall, I’m finding that I’m spending more time in OneNote and I can see it becoming a useful tool for me and my colleagues at Articulate.

What do you think? How does it compare with Evernote?