I fired up my new copy of Office Enterprise the other day and, even though I’ll never use most of the programs, there is one program (besides Word) that I really like: OneNote.
OneNote is a digital note-taking program. You can use it for just about anything, from taking notes in class or a meeting to researching travel destinations. I’m using it to organize my writing research.
I’ve created a notebook for my Egyptian novel. Within that notebook, I have tabs, such as ‘background info’ and ‘main characters.’ Under each tab, I have a variety of notes. For example, each character has their own note with their vital statistics. It’s wonderfully easy to flip between notes and all notes are searchable, so it doesn’t take long to find what you’re looking for. You can even import handwritten notes from a Tablet PC and it will allegedly translate your chicken scratch into text. I don’t have a Tablet PC, so I don’t know how well that works. Seems like it could be a cool feature though.
But that’s not the best part. OneNote allows you to clip webpages and PDF documents and incorporate them into your notes. That makes research a lot less time consuming.
With Word and OneNote, I think I have the perfect replacement for Scrivener.
Codex Lochianus 