It’s not overstating
things to say that I use Microsoft OneNote
in every part of my life. I use it to create and track projects at work;
categorize, list and annotate the technologies I work with; share
information with my family (from groceries to the punch-down list my wife
uses when she flips houses, to wedding planning with my daughter); I mean every
part of my life. I’m writing this blog post in OneNote, in fact.

To be fair, I’ve always been a note-taker. I taught myself note-taking when I was young, and then was formally taught to do it better. I started with those grey-speckled notepads you buy for school, graduated to a Day-Runner, and then on to ACT! and other Personal Information Managers (PIMS) when those came out on the early computers. I’ve used Outlook Tasks, Microsoft Project, Getting Things Done (GTD)…