You don’t need to force a taxonomy when you can just enter OneNote since I use it for literally everything I do. I know I can get to my notes from anywhere.Īlso free, so there’s that – although I wouldn’t hesitate to pay for (for Linux and really just about anything), Mac, Windows, Android and (if I had Thing to me is that OneNote is available on everything I work with – the web I tried Notepad++, EverNote, Google Keep, ToDo, and others. Wouldn’t any other note-taking software work? Yes, well, maybe yes. Try as I might, certain members of my family and friends that would benefit greatly from OneNote, notes, tracking, and any semblance of organization, are not yet converts. Note that I understand this might not be for everyone. I’ve been asked if I would share that, so here’s the way I do it. While all of those earlier methods – and many, many other mechanisms I’ve tried – work just fine, I have finally come around to a method for recording and tracking my notes and my tasks that works for me. I also am aįirm believer in “what gets measured gets done”, so I need a way to Smart, so I find if I don’t write it down, it doesn’t get done. Note-bound is that I’m busy, like you probably are. I need something quick and easy or I just wouldn’t use it. But nothing really worked well for me, primarily because they were too involved. I’ve used O utlook Tasks, Microsoft Project, Getting Things Done (GTD), everything. I started with those grey-speckled notepads you buy for school, graduated to a Day-Runner, and then on to ACT! and other Personal Information Managers (PIMS) when those came out on the early computers.

I taught myself note-taking when I was young, and then was formally taught to do it better. To be fair, I’ve always been a note-taker. I’m writing this blog post in OneNote, in fact. Uses when she flips houses, to wedding planning with my daughter) I mean every Information with my family (from groceries to the punch-down list my wife I use it to create and track projects at work Ĭategorize, list and annotate the technologies I work with share Things to say that I use Microsoft OneNote

Onenote task tracker template