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    Recommend Note Taking Program (Organize Word Files)

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by dunkley, May 9, 2006.

  1. dunkley

    dunkley Notebook Enthusiast

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    What program do you use to organize all your notes you take in university/college/business meetings etc?

    I have a folder with about 50 ms word docs and was wondering if there was any program that may make browsing through these files more manageable?

    I looked at Microsoft OneNote is that any good? Anyone want to share what they use for note taking?

    Thanks,
     
    dunkley, May 9, 2006
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  2. drumfu

    drumfu super modfu

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    i like one note, but i used word for all my notes in law school

    folder/file structure at follows:

    semester/class/lecture notes.doc

    i tried to do it by lecture at first, but it became unmanageable so i switched to one long word doc with dates dividing the lectures.
     
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  3. dragonesse

    dragonesse Notebook Deity

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    OneNote rules!

    Before OneNote, I used Word Files in the following folder structure:

    Academic Year > Semester (Spring/Fall/Summer) > Course Name and Section > Date - Assignment Type (Notes/Homework/Review).doc

    However, when you do each day as an individual file, you lose continuity. With OneNote I divide my notes by topic. So my AI section has tabs like "Neural Networks" "Decision Trees"
     
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  4. Aero

    Aero PC/Mac...Whatever works! NBR Reviewer

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    o_O thats going to help me - never thought of the date :)

    thank you!
     
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  5. dragonesse

    dragonesse Notebook Deity

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    Glad to help. The date is great, because it always keeps things in chronological order.
     
    dragonesse, May 10, 2006
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