In a meeting yesterday a client of mine wanted to know if I knew of anything that could help her track notes and random brainstorming thoughts with her team that is in two different locations. She was finding herself overloaded with e-mail strings, constantly going back to search for the most recent message to see where they were in the process. After thinking about this last night, I decided to look into how she could manage this issue and found an interesting software product called OneNote. YouTube has a (albeit fuzzy) overview of the program here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5bHf_pV-ZM.
What’s cool about this product is that it is like a virtual notebook yet the pages are not limited to 8.5 by 11 inches. They can be as long as you want with any notes (almost like sticky notes) anywhere on the page. It also allows you to connect documents and web pages as references…right there on the same page! You can share the information with other users and they can view or edit the information too. It’s a virtual brainstorming session on steroids.
You can find more information here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/default.aspx. Amazon.com also sells it for less than $100.