Microsoft OneNote MX Has a Secret Weapon

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Microsoft launched a consumer preview of the new Microsoft Office suite this week. Traditionally, the core Microsoft Office elements have been Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, but OneNote has developed into a fourth pillar of the Microsoft productivity suite. In fact, Microsoft has put OneNote front and center as the poster child of the new mobile, touch-friendly Office. First--in case youre coming late to the party--lets try to define what OneNote is. We all know Word is for word processing, Excel is a spreadsheet program, and PowerPoint makes slideshow presentations. OneNote, however, is a bit more difficult to label so succinctly.

The shortest answer is Its a digital notebook, but that just leads to the question, And why would I want a digital notebook? The better answer is that its a powerful, versatile tool for organizing just about anything. Its the application you turn to for jotting down to-do lists, capturing notes during a presentation, or recording the random ideas that run through your head so you can refer to them later after your brain has erased all traces of the original thought. You can store, organize, and search text, audio, video, photos, and handwriting.

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