Anyone use OneNote at work?

[pete6032]

Curious if anyone here uses OneNote at work. What type of work do you do and why do you use it? I've tried using it several times but I just find it much easier to write my project notes in a notebook or a few MS word documents or excel spreadsheets in a project folder on my PC.

 

[ultimatebob]

I can't use it anymore. The new version of OneNote for the Mac is "cloud only" (it doesn't save to local files anymore, only to Office 365), and we're not allowed to put confidential data in "the cloud".

We used to use it for shared sys admin documentation, but a Wiki platform like Confluence works a LOT better for that.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

We use it constantly in my team (IT). It's our universal documentation system, used for project notes, change management, personnel stuff, meeting notes, inter-team collaboration, etc.

I don't use it for personal note taking/tracking, that usually ends up in either a .txt file, in google keep, post-its or something like that.

 

[KMFJD]

We used to, but unfortunately everything got moved into ServiceNow

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Curious if anyone here uses OneNote at work. What type of work do you do and why do you use it? I've tried using it several times but I just find it much easier to write my project notes in a notebook or a few MS word documents or excel spreadsheets in a project folder on my PC.

I agree completely. I have often had to take meeting notes from time to time and send out summaries.

I use Notepad for taking of the actual notes. I don't have time to make it look pretty with bullets, proper formatting, and summarizing things during the actual meeting.

AFTER the meeting, however, before sending out I will then transfer it to OneNote to summarize it, have meeting attendee names at the top, and action items at the bottom. So my opinion: Good for summarizing and making it look pretty. Useless for actually typing up notes.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Almost everyone on my teams at the past 3 or 4 companies I've worked at use it, but I just don't like it. I used Notepad and save them with the date and summary in the doc title, in the client's folder. Yes, I know this probably seems inefficient, but it works for me. OneNote just pisses me off and like the post above, I don't have time while meeting to get all the formatting pretty, etc.

We used to, but unfortunately everything got moved into ServiceNow

ServiceNow is amazing - amazing in that it is truly amazing that anyone uses that horrific POS. Slow, terrible UI, and absolutely non-intuitive to find anything. It's like it is a case study of how NOT to build a product.

 

[KMFJD]

ServiceNow is amazing - amazing in that it is truly amazing that anyone uses that horrific POS. Slow, terrible UI, and absolutely non-intuitive to find anything. It's like it is a case study of how NOT to build a product.

Preach on brother, i'm with you.

 

[vi edit]

I'm a OneNote junkie. Like others, it's what my team uses for nearly all internal documentation and I've got it synched across devices. We do a ton of screen shots (window +s) and paste them right into note pad. Plus I take care of over 20 different apps and the tab structure makes it invaluable to silo out the information in ways that flat files just can't do as well.

It syncs to my phone so if I'm away from my desk I can just pull it up there. It's on my home PC so if I get paged at 2am I can just open up my computer at home and look up how to do some obscure process.

And it auto updates for other members of my team if we make changes.