I fell in love with OneNote 2007 on my desktop. but when I got a MAC laptop I
installed the MS Office 2008, but no OneNote 2008. Is OneNote going to be
included in the next Office MAC release, or even separately?.
Hi mjmoore24,
I feel your pain. In my case I came from the Mac back to the PC for
work due to non-technical reasons. While working on Mac, I enjoyed
DEVONthink (
http://www.devon-technologies.com) and I recommend you
look into it. Now, after returning to the PC I was actively searching
for a solution and found OneNote. To my surprise OneNote fits my needs
perfectly. DEVONthink is a tool for collection and analysis (and in
this research capacity surely better than OneNote + Windows Search as
it employees a pretty impressive AI).
My main need however was note-taking, meeting minutes, organization
and cross-linking of reference materials (GTD). I have to say that
OneNote just blows me away. Especially the UI metaphor of the
notebook, section and pages. To me that is much more natural than
folder hierarchies and file listings.
All that of course is little help to you. However, let me mention that
Word:mac has a Mac-only feature of "Notebook Documents" (http://
www.microsoft.com/mac/products/word2008/default.mspx#/notebook_layout_view/).
These provide the audio recording while taking notes capability that
is one of the killer-features for me in OneNote. Screenshots and
printing into PDF are build-in feature on the Mac. So with a little
thought and the combination of let's say DEVONthink + Word:mac you
might be able to reproduce about 80-90% of OneNote's feature set.
Alternatively you could run OneNote in Parallels (http://
www.parallels.com) on the Mac, but you would lose some of the
integration with the Mac-based applications (e.g., the "Send" buttons
in Outlook / IE). However the clipboard is shared with Parallels so
sending something via copy&paste will work. Also, you could print to
PDF in the Mac apps and then open the PDF with Acrobat Reader in
parallels and then print into OneNote. Actually, now that I think of
it, there might be a way to print directly from the Mac apps into a
Windows printer with Parallels.
Once I return to the Mac, that is what I am going to do (OneNote
+Parallels). Without the ability to run Windows applications in
Parallels, I would probably not return to the Mac just because of
OneNote. (No need to mention Evernote. I used it. It is no match / has
a slightly different aim than OneNote).
/Sven
