onenote vs. datebase, help needed

[ulrich hoffmann]

Hi,
I am an author and normally just work with Word.
For my next project I have to find, write, catalog, headline and
finally sort several hundred tipps & tricks.
I want to work on each of them individually and put them in their
final order only before I finish the project.
Would it make sense to do this in Onenote (and/or in a databse like
Access)? Or am I going about this all wrong?
Thanks, Ulrich

 

[John Guin [msft]]

Hello Ulrich,

I have to guess quite a bit about the nature of your tips and the task in
front of you.

My guesses aren't really that important (are they textual sentences?
Images? hyperlinks? Equations? Some other data type?) since OneNote
doesn't really have any sorting tools available. There are a couple of
addins which let you alphabetize pages, and that is about it.

Sorting hundreds of pieces of data is probably something you want to use
with a database. You can use OneNote to quickly capture the tips, references
to go along with them and other information about them. Once you get into
laying out data for presentation, I recommend Word, Excel or in this case,
Access.

 

[ulrich hoffmann]

Sorting hundreds of pieces of data is probably something you want to use
with a database. You can use OneNote to quickly capture the tips, references
to go along with them and other information about them. Once you get into
laying out data for presentation, I recommend Word, Excel or in this case,
Access.

Allright. Thank you! Best wishes, Ulrich