This style of operation is so different from Word and other Office applications that it gave me pause and it took a while for me to warm up to OneNote (and, honestly, to trust it with my data). That's because OneNote, unlike other Office applications, doesn't support the notion of true documents: You don't save or open OneNote "documents," but rather close OneNote when you're done taking notes and start it back up again when you're ready to take more notes: As with pen and paper notes, OneNote stores what you've written automatically, without requiring you to "save" it, and it returns you to the place in your notes where you were when you last shut down the application (I discuss this process in more detail in the section titled Note backup and portability, below). My original plans to switch entirely to this application happened far more slowly than I had originally planned.
This is bread and butter stuff, and I'm surprised how many tech journalists don't understand that.
People I've interviewed, or others who have been present while I'm taking notes, often express amazement at the amount of information I type while taking notes: I try to record everything that's said, as accurately as possible, and frankly I've been kind of amazed to watch as contemporaries at other publications sit at the same industry events, listening but not taking notes. A copy of these notes goes with me every time I travel, giving me reasonably quick access to whatever information I may need. Naturally, I've primarily used Microsoft Word for my note-taking tasks, and I have thousands of Word documents, full of notes, covering the various meetings I've had over the years, stored on my hard drive. Note-taking is, quite literally, at the heart of what I do on a professional basis. In fact, from a pure time percentage, I probably spend more time taking and managing notes, and turning those notes into finished articles, than I do on any other work-related task, including email. As you might imagine, I spend a lot of time taking notes, be it on the phone or in live meetings with representatives of Microsoft and other companies.
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