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Archive for March 2nd, 2010

In recent months, with several office moves and a flurry of new meetings to keep on top of, I was starting to wonder if I would ever find a way of keeping on top of my meeting notes and business cards. I’m also big on lists, scheduling and writing things down when Ideas come to me in silly places.

The answer it seems was staring me in the face from the very beginning. I’d seen onenote on versions of windows mobile for a while but seen it more as a bundled annoyance that I would one day get around to evaluating. When I finally got around to firing it up on my laptop, I was annoyed I didn’t do it earlier (just as the blurb said I would be). Now I use it all the time and to be honest would struggle without it. All my notes get scanned and convereted into one note via the sheet feed scanner. Easy. If you haven’t tried it, give it a while, it comes with the more comprehensive versions of office. This post isn’t about one notethough, it’s about a little tip I learnt when I finally started using iPhone recently.

The power of onenote is in having access to your information and notes anywhere which is why iphone is a frustration. Luckily I found a solution that allows me to onenote on my iphone.

It comes in two form, cloud syncing and desktop syncing. I went for the desktop version because for a $10 fee it didn’t make sense to lock into an ongoing monthly contract.

There are essentially two apps, one downloadable from the istore and the one you install on your PC. There is a bit of configuration to do but nothing that can’t be done by the average user.

If you’re a user of onenote and iphone you might like to find out more at www.mobilenoter.com

Enjoy!