using one note as knowledge or document management software

[emc]

Will the capabilities of One note lend themselves to capturing all the
archived paper files of a small office by scanning them and importing them?
Can the imported documents be organized along the lines of a traditional file
plan concept commonly used for pape? I ask because although it is obvious
that native electronic formats and some limited scanning of paper can easily
be imported, it is not clear from any of the posting here that more
voluminous paper files would work as well. It is this legacy paper
importation and organization that give me pause but that would find me
overjoyed if there is a clear path to utilizing Onenote in such a fashion.

EMC

 

[John Guin]

Hello,

How many documents do you have? 10,000? 100,000? About how many letter
size pages of data is it? Mostly text or text+images? And how many hours do
you think it would take to scan all the documents you currently have?

Are you wanting to put these on a server so multiple people can use them?

Depending on the scale, OneNote may or may not work. From a hierarchical
viewpoint, ON follows the binder analogy pretty well - notebooks + sections +
pages. Since the scanned documents can be searched, you get a big win there.
Since they are treated as images, storage requirements might become pretty
large. And if you want 100,000 pages, ON probably would be a poor choice of
document management.

Just questions to think about.