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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
Sorry for the late reply, but I forgot I posted this! OneNote just gets more and more useful to me the more I use it. Right now, I'm using it(2016 version) for my blog, planning for new articles, doing research, and am trying to use it for plot outlining, and character development in my fiction. Oh, and I'm trying to figure out if it can be used to create video training film scripts and story boards.
I read an article about how a couple of software engineers at Microsoft were trying to make outlining better inside of MS word (It's never been that great for outlining compared to other word processors, IMO). And they got intrigued by the idea of an endless scrolling screen. How they transitioned from outlining to scrolling screens is beyond me. Sheesh, talk about feature creep!
I like 2016 version better than the free version that comes with Windows 10, but MS has committed to eventually porting all the features (that make sense) to the free version so they can retire 2016. No standalone future versions are being worked on.
At any rate, they realized that
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I concur that OneNote is a truly overlooked wonder. I've used Evernote, OneNote, Lotus Notes, you-name-it, and ON is really remarkable. If nothing else, its ability to link between apps in the Suite is handy. If you ever tried to use Liquid Story Binder XE, and gave up in frustration, you cna use OneNote with Word and other apps to create your own, using the OneNote linking feature as a very powerful method of outlining. Create the outline, write the scenes/chapters/blogs/whatever, and then link them in a single outline. Or interlinked outlines.
Lovely stuff.
FWIW, I find Word's outline function to be also woefully misunderstood. I don't like using headings for everything, of course, but by so doing, you can use Outline View, which is really powerful. (And, wait for it, yes, you can, of course, use OneNote linked to outline levels and entries in Word.)
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