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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 2816
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Full
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.9 x 1.9
MPN: s26-01031
Model: S26-01031
UPC: 805529925168
EAN: 0805529925168
ASIN: B0002HE2IW
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Showing reviews 11-15 of 37
 OneNote 2003 now has a Service Pack 2 January 28, 2006
Kevin Nelson (Eureka, CA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Some of the reviews listed various complaints about the software. Some of those complaints may have been solved with the release of Microsoft's Service Packs 1 & 2.
Microsoft knowledgebase article ID: 887619
 Try INFOSELECT from MicroLogic as alternative! April 6, 2006
J. Roth (Kaarst, Germany)
9 out of 19 found this review helpful
For those frustrated with the limitations of OneNote 2003, check out INFOSELECT from MicroLogic (http://www.miclog.com.
Probably the best PIM on the market and already there for a long time.
 so so quality but very bad service January 30, 2005
bobo (usa)
7 out of 50 found this review helpful
I bought one , but it is not convinient for those that with the touch pad, it is hard to write unless you have pen.
also I bought hope there will be a rebate, but they said the coupon must be original, but they did not send me the one, which means they give you better hope but not real result.
that is bad feeling!!! very bad!! since then I will never buy one microsoft product privately.
Useful and unique from Microsoft! December 12, 2005
Howard R. Anderson (Ann Arbor, MI USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
First of all, I am not a big fan of most microsoft software. I do like their operating systems but I feel that almost every other microsoft program has a superior and cheaper competitive software package. However, they have really done something with One Note.
One Note is a program designed for taking notes. I think microsoft had students in mind because as a student, I got a copy for free. So, I thought I would try it. I never thought taking notes on the computer would be so easy and so helpful. I don't actaully use it for class (prefer a notebook), but I use it all the time for other computer related items.
One Note has an infrastructure to allow a complicated system of organized notes, if you want. Or, if you just want to jot a bunch of information down in one place on your computer without worrying about margins, printing and formatting, then it easily does that too.
I use it for internet shopping and research. As you browse the web, you can easily copy text and screen clippings with One Note. If you are going on a trip, and have flights, hotels, car rentals, meeting agendas, maps, directions etc - One note is a wonderful place to consolidate all that information in one place organized however you want it to be.
My favorite thing about One Note is that you can format the information however you want without the program trying to format it in the way it wants (Other microsoft programs are notorious for this). Anywhere you click on the workspace you can add information to that very spot.
In conclusion: This is a program for taking personal notes. It is not good at formatting, printing, or publishing in any form. However, it is very good at letting you organize in your own unique and personal way. If that is what you need, this program is a good choice for you.
it looks appealing at first but..... March 23, 2006
Hareesh (India)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have been mad about the onenote 2003 as most of the people are. The initial days with it were great, a new software with a new look and a new concept. But as the days progressed with it and the honeymoon period was over, I observed certain serious limitations in it- which i think will be developed in the new versions.
1.it is not certainly that intuitive that it seems to be.
It is seriously handicapped by the lack of treelike structure that one finds in treepad software that makes every page you created appear on the left side of the screen, in a heirarchial structure. This structure makes it very easy to navigate through the entire note book in just a click. where as in the onenote this structure is present in an drop down menu like thing which is embarassing to use as time goes by (which i would like to give one word - primitive).each time one has to point an arrow on it and click it and the menu drops and click on the + signs to see whats in the folder and u find only sections in it and there are no pages seen in that structure. and you have to know some how, which topics are in which section and in which page and its a great demand on the mind. And when you leave that heirarchial structure it is gone and again you have to repeat the entrie procedure. it gets on the nerves especially when your notes grows and when you have to suddenly view some page in some other section or folder.
2. With this onenote can you guess how many note books you can create? take a wild guess!!!! YOU would be utterly disappointed to know that the answer is 1 only ONE note book can be created with it. {for comparison and to tell you that there are better softwares - treepad is excellent in this feature you can create any number of notebooks any where on your system unlike onenote where you have to create the sections only in the default folder -in my documents it provides when it is first installed and the organization of each note book is preserved where ever you open that notes,}
3. take this scenario:- you have to reformat your system, or open the notes in some other system. the clumsient part of the picture now surfaces. when you copy and paste a new sections Onenote opens it through a shortcut but not directly. the heirarchy in the onenote is maintained only for the only one notebook that it creates when it is first installed. when you reformat your system or transfer sections of some other system those sections are seen as aliens by the Onenote and the only way to navigate through them is through the windows browser. its really awkward.
many of the features are good to brilliant. But these are mostly superficial features that you can get on without, or find alternatives. But it is some what crippled when the above features are considered which take away the userfriendly tag of Microsoft corporation from this product. especially when there are a few other softwares that have the above features, that are either free or less cheap. you can try treepad business edition if you can afford some bucks. or treepad lite or keynote softwares these are for free. they dont have some of the fancy things of onenote like note flags... But are much more intuitive and userfriendly.
Onenote is not the ultimate note taking software as it is portraited. It has to travel still further before one can place it there.
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