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Posted: Jan 30 2009
I recently bought Microsoft's Office 2007 suite for Power Point, and am very pleasantly surprised by 3 of the 4 programs, particularly, One Note. I had been looking for a personal and business organization program for several years, both for my own use but also as I write and advise on assistive cognitive technologies. I had only known a little about One Note. In fact, I had a conference call several months back with Microsoft's Accessibility division, and even they could not say or "get" how One Note might help persons who are challenged with memory and organizational issues. It has its own architecture quite different from other programs out there, yet having some semblence to the Microsoft line of products. On the good side, it is incredibly extensive it what I can do for those seeking to better coordinate all their documents, photos, email, notes, etc. On the down side, if you havent's worked with a program lie this before, you have a sizable learning curve in front of you. But I think its usefullness may far outweigh its time to master. I like its newer integration and voice/text synch and search capabilities with mobile phones. I have, however, noticed some performance issues and wonder if it could be clashing with other problems such as Live Search that I downloaded last year. I disabled that program as it wasn't worth the resources it consumed, and may not need to uninstall it due to potential conflicts. Overall I am very excited with One Note 2007, and expect I will find more usability and feature issues. But there is really nothing like it otherwise available.
