

Designed to look like a three-ringer binder, OneNote comes complete with virtual tabs that organize notes into individual sections-convenient for workgroups collaborating on a project. However, many people have recognized its use as a general note-taking platform and it is widely used in education by both students and teachers.Built for taking notes, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 efficiently stores and organizes a myriad of information, including graphics, text, and handwritten data from a desktop or notebook computer, a tablet PC, or the Internet in one place-perfect for students or salespeople on the road. OneNote was originally marketed by Microsoft as a companion to Tablet PCs and it has support for pen interfaces as noted above. OneNote is designed as a collaborative tool and allows more than one person to work on the same page at the same time - making it a shared whiteboard tool as well. This makes it a tool for workgroups that collaborate on research whose members are not always online. Its multi-user capability allows offline editing and later synchronization and merging at the paragraph level. Audio recordings can also be searched phonetically by giving a text key, and can be replayed concurrently with the notes taken during the recording. Electronic ink annotations can also be searched as text.

screen captures, embedded document scans, or even photographs) can be searched for embedded text content. One of OneNotes innovations is the integration of search features and indexing into a free-form graphics and audio repository. The published API has resulted in a small number of extensions being written.

As a repository of information gleaned from a variety of sources, a OneNote notebook is used for organizing information for a course or a research project. Users may add embedded multimedia recordings and web links.

Pages can be moved inside the binder, annotated with a stylus, word-processing or drawing tools. OneNotes interface is an electronic version of the familiar tabbed three-ring binder which can be used directly for making notes, but also to gather "pages" printed or sent from other applications. While OneNote is most commonly used on laptops or desktop PCs, it has additional features for use on pen-enabled Tablet PCs, in environments where pen, audio or video notes are more appropriate than an intensive use of keyboards. Microsoft OneNote, is a software package for free-form information gathering, and multi-user collaboration. OneNote 2003 is a easy-to-use note-taking and information-management program.
