Seeing the light about OneNote
I've been quiet for a week - blog wise. I've been in Paris (well at Charles de Gaulle airport really) on a Management Excellence course. There's been lots of time for self reflection, navel gazing and finding out all about my strengths and weaknesses. In order for us to get the best benefit possible we were asked not to go onto email etc., so true to my word, I triaged my mail on my smartphone a couple of times a day, didn't connect to the cloud and I didn't blog either - a new experience for me.
One of the key challenges for me though was the technology. Yes honestly. All of our group work was on OneNote. Ick! I really HATE OneNote. I don't use a tablet PC so I just didn't "get" it about OneNote- how good it was... But, in the spirit of the event, I started using the pre-populated workbook for the course.
Eureka! I'm a convert.
Even the guide to OneNote now makes sense.
And just how simple is it to send stuff to OneNote from Outlook? One button! Why the heck haven't I "discovered" this before?
Well, all my RSS entries that have been flagged for looking at later in Outlook (and forgotten about) are now sitting nicely in my "stuff to blog about" section.
So I've now seen the light - and I'm evangelising about this accordingly. So if you fire up OneNote and don't know what the heck to do with it - have a look at the OneNote guide for help, watch the demos or try find your way around.
And me? I'll try really hard to give things a go a lot earlier. And that's one skill I didn't realise I was going to gain from a course on being a good manager...
