I know many of you have been using OneNote from Microsoft since it was first released. In the event that you haven't yet, I highly recommend that you try it out. In my opinion it is the most innovative program Microsoft has produced to date. Essentially, it's a digital notebook. It has many advanced features that help you write and keep track of your notes. You can add tabs, pages, and sections to organize your information and produce outlines from your notes. You can type text from the keyboard, of course, but you can also use handwriting and even draw sketches. This is where having a Tablet PC comes in handy (although you can use a graphics tablet if you have one although you do not get ink-to-text conversion as you do on a Tablet PC).

OneNote also allows you to add video notes, pictures, meeting data from Outlook, clippings from other applications or the web, and much more. It allows voice recordings to be created and saved right alongside your notes. If you do, OneNote will highlight each note you've taken as the audio is played back so you can see what you were writing at the time a particular statement was made or question asked.

You can also import other Office documents, save pages as Word documents or as web pages, jot down addresses and save to Outlook. It is the most versatile tool for notes I have ever used. I don't yet have a Tablet PC, but OneNote's benefits are well worth it on my laptop. You can download a free trial or test-drive OneNote online by clicking here. For anyone who doesn't already use it, I think you'll find it to be a great time-saving tool.