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Product Review – Microsoft OneNote 2007 – Good for GTD Application

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I’ve been using OneNote 2007 now for about three weeks. I’ve got it on my flash drive as a portable app, and have it at home on both the desktop and the laptop. I have been using the sync tool on my Cruzer flash drive to sync from work to drive, and drive to home. This way, I always have my notebooks with me and can make changes to any of them at the blink of an eye!

OneNote is truly just like a notebook: it has notebooks, sections, pages and section groups. Please click on the image here and you will see the components listed in red. You can have templates for your pages of the types listed below:

Agendas
Calendars
2008 calendars | 2007 calendars | 2006 calendars | More…
Diagrams
Network diagrams
Forms
Healthcare
Invitations
Party
Lists
Business | Healthcare | Home
Minutes
Plans
Home
Planners
Reports
Schedules
Stationery
Specialty paper
Time sheets
More categories
Address books | Charts | Evaluations | More…
For just about anything that you want, you can find a template or create one yourself.

You can also easily adapt this to the GTD styles, with making your notebooks in the order of Action, Next Action, and Someday. Your sections could then contain the projects that you are working on, and pages could be completed or not completed.

You can gather screen clippings:

You can search all your text, and it will even search test INSIDE pictures!

Put OneNote’s into Outlook and back to OneNote with bi-directional support.

Send notes to others’ even if they don’t have OneNote.

OneNot
e also supports shared notebooks, so all people on a project can work on and share notes at the same time. When stored on a server or network drive, sharing OneNote is a breeze.

I gave OneNote 2007 a rating of 9.5, because there is always room for improvement within an application. An out-of-the-box portable version or an online version would be absolutely fantastic, as MS doesn’t support one natively. I have yet to see a note taking application online that is as comprehensive as OneNote. Included templates for GTD would be greatly appreciated as well, as I only found one online and that was just a page, not an entire notebook…..buy perhaps I shall make one!

Should you want the portable version, post a comment and I will email you the link privately..

For more information about OneNote, visit the Microsoft OneNote page. To purchase OneNote, pick it up on eBay: you can get full functional non activated versions at really great prices!

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#1

Posted by Microsoft OneNote 2007 GTD Notebook | Words Within on April 13th, 2008 at 8:38 am

[...] promised in my post earlier today, here is a OneNote Notebook set up in the GTD style. Each and every aspect of this is customizable, [...]
#2

Posted by daniel on April 14th, 2008 at 6:15 am

I’m using Onenote 2007 to GTD as well, along with Outlook 2007.
I would love to try the portable version.
Thanks.

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#3

Posted by Kris on April 14th, 2008 at 6:29 am

Hi there!

I will upload is somewhere tonight and email you the link. Did you see my next post with the GTD OneNote 2007 Notebook template?

Thanks for the comment!

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#4

Posted by dailyoptic on April 15th, 2008 at 2:36 am

I would love to have a portable version of onenote. Please send link. Thanks in advance.

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#5

Posted by portable on April 18th, 2008 at 8:47 am

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#6

Posted by Tom Hodgers on April 19th, 2008 at 10:37 pm

Hi Kris,

Is your OneNote Notebook for GTD still available for free download? I can’t seem to find the link on your pages.

Thanks,

Tom

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#7

Posted by Roland Rapose on April 24th, 2008 at 1:56 am

I would like to have a portable version of onenote. Please send me the link. Thanking you in advance. If possible how to install it on the portable drive.

Roland

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#8

Posted by Sam Mackay on May 5th, 2008 at 4:10 am

Please send me the link for the portable version! Many thanks!
Sam.

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#9

Posted by AC Mathew on May 5th, 2008 at 11:55 am

Would also definately appreciate a link to the portable version. Thanks!!

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#10

Posted by Leslei Hutchison on May 10th, 2008 at 6:19 am

Would like the portable version as well. Attempting to integrate anything to help with organizing and tracking work completed. Thanks!

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#11

Posted by Glar Lotarge on May 12th, 2008 at 9:44 am

I would definitely love to have the portable version. I rely on OneNote in so many ways and would love to be able to take it on my travels. Thanks in advance!!!!

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#12

Posted by J. McKay on May 27th, 2008 at 11:44 pm

I would greatly appreciate you emailing me the link to the portable application. I thank you sincerely for your time

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#13

Posted by Saju S on July 1st, 2008 at 1:34 pm

I am also interested in the one note portable app. I will appreciate if you could send me the link to download.

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#14

Posted by Microsoft OneNote 2007 – Using It to Organize Your Daily Life | Fresh Focus...... on July 2nd, 2008 at 3:11 am

[...] you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Although I’ve mentioned before my love affair with Microsoft OneNote, it is worth doing another article, with a bit more explanation on how they [...]
#15

Posted by Jason Johnson on October 1st, 2008 at 8:03 am

I’m using Onenote 2007 to GTD as well, along with Outlook 2007.
I would love to try the portable version.

Thanks

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Kris reply on October 2nd, 2008 7:29 am:
Well thanks for stopping by and for your comment. I hope to interact with you more here at Fresh Focus!

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#16

Posted by D J Dalian on October 8th, 2008 at 8:51 am

I have just found your site; looks like a lot of interesting information. Your take on using Onenote for
GTD implementation looks simple and straight forward. So many of the custom apps have a huge learning curve and take more time to use then it does to get something done. I would greatly appreciate the information on the portable Onenote app if it is still available?
Thank you,

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#17

Posted by Scotty on October 8th, 2008 at 11:17 pm

Kris:

This site is fantastic. It’s what I needed as I’m just learning about Onenote. I think I could benefit from learning more about the mobile version, can you please assist?

Keep up the great work.

Scotty

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#18

Posted by webster on October 14th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

Greetings!
I am looking for OneNote 2007 portable for 3 days. Nothing I had found did not work.
I really like Office 2007 and I spent much money for student licence, but I need OneNote to be able to run from external HDD at school, in library etc…
Please, send me a download link.
Thanks

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#19

Posted by Phil Ridout on December 4th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

I would also like link to portable version if still available please
Phil

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Kris reply on December 5th, 2008 8:13 am:
Sent!

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#20

Posted by Jim on December 10th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

Hi,

I’ve been totally dependent on OneNote ever since its initial release, and would love to try the portable version…

Thanks!

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#21

Posted by Dan on December 14th, 2008 at 6:52 pm

Hi Kris,

Really enjoyed your article. I, too, would be interested in the OneNote portable app! I use OneNote
quite a lot…

Thanks so much

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#22

Posted by Otto Marti on December 24th, 2008 at 5:15 am

OneNote
I would greatly appreciate you emailing me the link to the portable application. I thank you sincerely for your time.
Otto

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#23

Posted by Bill on December 31st, 2008 at 6:15 pm

I’ve been looking in vain for a portable version of OneNote. Is there really a link you can send me? Thanks in advance!

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#24

Posted by Bobbi on January 18th, 2009 at 12:40 am

I absolutely love one note but most of my classes are now in computer labs, so I no longer need to take my laptop… just a portable version of OneNote. If you are still sending the link, I would love to have it! Thank you!

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#25

Posted by House of Pang on January 25th, 2009 at 12:18 am

Can i please have the link too? I use one note daily and would LOVE to be able to make it portable

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#26

Posted by Gabryell on February 2nd, 2009 at 10:27 am

Is your offer still open? Because I’d like to have a portable version of Onenote. It’s a really good tool I’m using with my laptop but when I’m using the college’s computer, I have to write with ‘open office’ and copy out on Onenote when I’m home. It’s a waste of time.
Thanks in advance =)
btw, great article!

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#27

Posted by zanussi on February 13th, 2009 at 10:21 pm

В нынешней ситуации большинство тем отходят на второй план. Интересно, как мы будем жить, если доллар рухнет?

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#28

Posted by Sam on April 14th, 2009 at 9:54 am

Is your offer still open? I would LOVE to be able to use OneNote portably. Thanks for all you do!

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#29

Posted by Otávio on May 27th, 2009 at 1:41 pm

Hi! I have OneNote 2007 and I´m trying to make it portable, but I have problems to set it up. Could tou send me the link to download the portable version? I´d appreciate that.
Thx.

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#30

Posted by kuzco on June 1st, 2009 at 12:20 pm

Hi, I, too, would greatly appreciate the link to the portable version of the app.
Thank you!

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#31

Posted by CSI on June 9th, 2009 at 7:17 am

I would love to have a portable version of onenote. Please send me the link. Thanks in advance!!.

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