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macheide
At 8:33am on November 1, I gave OneNote 2003 my first real note, just a
one-liner looking for this month to be more productive for me, after a
hospital stint last month had my company sidelining me. I barely knew
then how to place a simple note in one of the default notebooks. yet by
that same evening I was sold to the point of addiction. And by the
close of November 2, I had a key client headed out to Staples for a
copy although by then we'd found out 2007 is near release, and my wife
was ready to purchase copies for our two college kids, and several
colleages at my company were wanting to know more.
Those in my profession who know me should find it no surprise that I'd
take to OneNote so naturally. Back in pre-historic 1990, when us
business types were shut out from any but the most secretive Internet
involvement, I was my industry's loudest tin can rattling our prison
bars for at least a dedicated electronic bulletin board ... anyone here
old enough to remember those old times? By autumn of that year, after
having one too many of my tech pieces on the matter smash against
political walls and sheer lack of vision, I responded to an article
request from my profession's flagship magazine, Contingencies, with a
rant not so much about the bulletin board then finally being launched
(what I dismissed as the "Next Best Thing" - resurrected at
http://macheide.googlepages.com/nextbestthing), but rather about what I
really wanted. And if you can see through the thick metaphor and inside
jokes and extreme professional complexity (some of the business issues
being to this day among the most difficult) all wrapped around a thin
bit of playful scifi, it's not all that hard to see now in hindsight
what I've never stopped seeking in the 16 years since my article was
published: all along, I wanted OneNote.
An "aurelian dream" is another term for utopia. Which is what I think
of OneNote. Still so shocking even to me that as I scribble this, I've
still been using it less than a mere week. I may be a latecomer to the
party, but I can hardly wait to get my hands on the 2007 version.
Absolutely an incredible product, and I heartily applaud all who have
worked on it. Thanks, thanks a very great deal!
one-liner looking for this month to be more productive for me, after a
hospital stint last month had my company sidelining me. I barely knew
then how to place a simple note in one of the default notebooks. yet by
that same evening I was sold to the point of addiction. And by the
close of November 2, I had a key client headed out to Staples for a
copy although by then we'd found out 2007 is near release, and my wife
was ready to purchase copies for our two college kids, and several
colleages at my company were wanting to know more.
Those in my profession who know me should find it no surprise that I'd
take to OneNote so naturally. Back in pre-historic 1990, when us
business types were shut out from any but the most secretive Internet
involvement, I was my industry's loudest tin can rattling our prison
bars for at least a dedicated electronic bulletin board ... anyone here
old enough to remember those old times? By autumn of that year, after
having one too many of my tech pieces on the matter smash against
political walls and sheer lack of vision, I responded to an article
request from my profession's flagship magazine, Contingencies, with a
rant not so much about the bulletin board then finally being launched
(what I dismissed as the "Next Best Thing" - resurrected at
http://macheide.googlepages.com/nextbestthing), but rather about what I
really wanted. And if you can see through the thick metaphor and inside
jokes and extreme professional complexity (some of the business issues
being to this day among the most difficult) all wrapped around a thin
bit of playful scifi, it's not all that hard to see now in hindsight
what I've never stopped seeking in the 16 years since my article was
published: all along, I wanted OneNote.
An "aurelian dream" is another term for utopia. Which is what I think
of OneNote. Still so shocking even to me that as I scribble this, I've
still been using it less than a mere week. I may be a latecomer to the
party, but I can hardly wait to get my hands on the 2007 version.
Absolutely an incredible product, and I heartily applaud all who have
worked on it. Thanks, thanks a very great deal!