I tried OneNote in university and I just didn't "get it". Can someone explain?
I have 2 use cases for notes - short term stuff I need in the next day and longer term notes I might need for 6 months+. The first I used to do with something like the "stickies" applet in Linux - eventually I found those to be too much trouble to maintain/delete and moved to a paper notebook. The latter case I keep in plain text files. When I tried OneNote it seemed to have a horribly complicated interface and I didn't understand what it added to the equation.
I think One Note lets you easily¹ import content from websites, documents, etc. into a note, and then lets you store notes in pages, so you could e.g. have a page about a topic you're researching with some articles, a diagram, some handwritten notes, etc.
I just use textfiles and directories, though.
¹ I think it adds a global keyboard shortcut to launch the tool.
I have 2 use cases for notes - short term stuff I need in the next day and longer term notes I might need for 6 months+. The first I used to do with something like the "stickies" applet in Linux - eventually I found those to be too much trouble to maintain/delete and moved to a paper notebook. The latter case I keep in plain text files. When I tried OneNote it seemed to have a horribly complicated interface and I didn't understand what it added to the equation.