lifehacker.com: Microsoft OneNote has been one of our favorite note-taking apps for years, and it keeps getting better. The app is completely free to install on your Mac or Windows desktop and lets you format notes any way you wish in an intuitive digital notebook interface.
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Comment try number two on this article. Just to illustrate how inept I am on a computer, I tried submitting a comment on this article and apparently it didn't stick. So, here we are, attempt number two. I personally love OneNote, its one of the few things I understand how to do with a computer. I am commenting on this article because there is one feature the One Note has that this article failed to mention. Along with the extremely useful and practical tools that this program provides (such as itinerary making, calendars, and notes) this ingenious software allows you to doodle in it. Which, at least for me, is extremely exciting. The primary factor which has left me in the stone age - bound to my paper and pen - is the ability to doodle. I need to move my hand. I look at people who type their notes into word and I can never understand how they manage to do it. A blank white page, devoid of personality, and the only movements they make are the darting of fingers. No wonder they don't remember anything from the notes they take. One Note, however, has a draw tool. It's intended purpose is to allow circling and highlighting of typed notes, but I use it to draw mermaids or shapes or comics of the professors in the margins of my notes. This tool can also be used to take the note themselves. If you have a tablet and stylus you can write onto the page. That way, you have a digital copy of your notes as well as the motion-activated memory bonus that comes from pen-on-paper note taking. Best of both words. The only thing that keeps the paper notebook in the lead is cost.
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