As far as the note attachments go, something I got very excited about was that they are very easily imported into Evernote (
www.evernote.com) which will subject them to OCR (for free) and catalogue all your notes in a searchable, online database - an example note here
http://www.evernote.com/pub/patnpm/public
Although I accept that if you aren't already an Evernote user this might be rather a niche use.