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Default OneNote Templates are Lacking

Microsoft’s OneNote website recommends students keep a notebook for school and inside the notebook, each class gets a section. In fact, OneNote comes with template notebook and pages to keep you school work organized. Although I like the idea, I think it is poorly executed and shows the OneNote team aren’t students.
When [...]

10 Tablet PC/Note Taking Lessons I Learned from Last Semester: Part 1

Last semester was the first full semester I had a Tablet PC, OneNote, Windows Journal, and other things we talk about on this blog. Here are the lessons (in no particular order) I learned from my experience. This is part 1 of a two part series.
1) Tablet PCs are cool
I thought Mac owners [...]

Using Social Bookmarking for Blog Marketing

There are many forms of “Social” Services available on the internet. Since all require a sizable amount of time and effort to build a “reputation”, I’ve decided to focus on the what I believe to be the best starting point for quickly increasing website traffic/links… Social Bookmarking. I’m also approaching the subject from a webmaster [...]

The Peaceful Warrior Movie

This is way off topic for Note Talkers, but this was such an awesome book that I can’t not post about it. I read it many years ago and it was life changing. Not as extreme as Dan’s story, but I erased quite a few VERY bad habits I was doing at the time. I’m [...]

Mind Map of Office 2007 Resources by Don Campbell

Sometimes it feels like I’m part of a minority using MindManager and OneNote (with PowerToys), so it was comforting to find Don Campbell’s Blog (MS Evangelist for Office) and his post of a Mind Map of Office 2007 Resources.
(via MindJet Blog)

Fifty Ways to Take Notes

I take notes in too many places already, but after reading Brian Benzinger’s post about Fifty Ways to Take Notes I added a few!

How I Convert Fellow Students to My Favorite Tools

AdminID’s last post made me think of how I do the same thing to my friends. Among my friends, I am the most tech savvy. If they need to know about something, they usually ask me. I use these powers to push my favorite tools onto them. So far, I have pushed Opera, OneNote, Tablet [...]

“What’s he doing?” as a way to share how you take notes with co-workers

Want a simple trick to get your co-workers interested in the tools you use and think they should be too… Push your laptop an extra half foot or more towards the center of the conference table and let them peak at how you are taking notes. Curiousity killed the cat, so they will inquire during [...]

Some MindManager Maps Examples

Need some examples of MindManager Maps, here’s a few…
Mobile Musings

Using MindManager to create an integrated presentation…
MindManager more useful everyday

Gary Slinger

Packing List

Ben’s Tech Blog

70-297 Map (Microsoft Course #)

MindJet

Map Notes from Mix06
World Cup 2006 Map

Maven Mapper’s Information

Usefulness of a MindManager Accelerator for FeedBurner
Analysis of “The Great Debate – Law in the Virtual World”
Almost 10% of US population [...]

Outlook 2007 Video Tutorial and Walkthrough

Darren Strage has posted another excellent blogcast aka video tutorial. His first blogcast was about OneNote 2007, and the current is about Outlook 2007. The video is fourteen minutes long and is very helpful and highlights all the features listed below.  I personally like the To-Do Bar and RSS Support. What are [...]