you say you mindmap in ON… how exactly do you do this? An outside tool and then paste the link? My current mindmap tools are freemind, mindmanager, and the brain. I would love to incorporate that directly into ON.

Thanks
Brad

Nice post. I’ve been using the GTD add-in for Outlook for a while and have been using ON for PSM. I’ve begun having my team start using it as a centralized documentation repository and for the benefit of Outlook integration.

One of the things I’m struggling with is the use of “Projects” in the GTD add-in. I would rather have them in ON. I think that I should just put my bigger projects in ON and keep my smaller “more than one action” projects using the add-in. Any ideas, comments?

Thanks, Leigh

The same goes for the email-to-onenote. If you use MS Office 2007 you should see a OneNote icon that allows you to send your active email message sent to onenote.

I did see someone that posted about the Print-to-OneNote (printer driver) and email-to-OneNote (outlook plugin) features. I have not seen or heard of the email one, but I have been trying to figure out how to get the printer driver installed. I am frequently stopped by certain webpages that need it to be sent to ON.

Does anyone know how to install these drivers?

@Heather – I completely agree that OneNote allows a user to really focus on the project at hand. It’s great if you need to get a bunch of reference info together to help you draft an email AND it’s great if you have blocked out an entire morning to move a project forward. Work in the notebook you’re in and leave the rest closed for another time.

I’d add the ability to use notebooks for each ROLE. I homeschool, run a website, chair two volunteer committees, and still freelance as a business writer. I set up a notebook for each of those roles and then the related projects within each role. This allows me to stay up to date on upcoming actions that relate to the relevant role. If I have a meeting for one of the said committees, I go to the notebook for that committee and then look through my tags there. I don’t get bogged down with my other roles. It allows me to focus, and we know how much the GTDers of the world love focus!

Great work and thanks!

I often dream of using a Macbook Pro at work with Omnifocus right there….but until then – it’s OneNote for me.

And it’s so much cooler and looks so much better than any Windoze app!

I’m working on some more material to expand on my GTD/ON workflow. So stay tuned.

I always wanted to use OneNote as well, but I struggled with finding a way to link tasks in OneNote to both the @Action (ie. @Home, @Work) AND the Project the task belongs to. What’s your method – tagging in ON?

Also, do you actually copy all emails related to a project into ON (could get messy), or do you file them in a folder in Outlook?

Thanks for sharing!

For what it’s worth, I’ve used Omnifocus for the iPhone for the last few months and, while I really like it, it didn’t allow me to capture as much info and data as I can with OneNote. (If I had a Mac, that might be different.) As a result of moving PSM to OneNote, I’m now able to use Omnifocus for just my very next actions; everything else lives in ON and new NAs are added to Omnifocus as I complete previous tasks. Really cool.

I currently use the GTD Add-In for Outlook and will try to get to 20K view on it as well as in OneNote – sort of parallel test and see what works for me.

Thanks for you post

Leighton

@Finn-I’m trying to use Evernote for more.

@scamp-Something that at least seems similar, but for the Mac, is Circus Ponies’ Notebook. I tried it once but the there was some kind of limitation in formatting at the time that didn’t work for me. I may take another look now.

@Patricia – I never used any of the older versions of OneNote, but I think it was lacking some of the key features in OneNote 2007 that makes it a GTD mega-tool. Try it out for yourself and see. I hear 2010 is going to be even better…..

@Kamil – I feel your pain. I tried gannt and spreadsheets and all sorts of stuff. I never had that “aha” breakthrough until I tried OneNote. Give it a shot and see for yourself.

@Rob – I know your site well. I had set up my origional OneNote to your specifications. I morphed things to my workflow since then, but your posts were key to me getting to where I am now. So thanks so much for sharing.

@Peter – based on this positive response to my post, I think I will create a series. GTD Times has shown some interest in this. So stay tuned.

@Reinier – thanks. I ‘wish’ I had a tablet. Fortunatly I’m a fast typer, but sometimes it would be great to go free-style (especially for mind-maps)

@Finn – yep, evernote is a similar product. I’ve tried evernote, but it never stuck. Perhaps its the integration with Microsoft products (outlook, word, etc) that make OneNote more valuable to me and my workflow.

@scamp – I wish MS created a OneNote for Mac. There’s been talk, but no product. Maybe 2010? Evernote could be a good option. But I actually had to purchase a cheap little netbook pc so that I could have OneNote at home. No regrets.

@Catherine – The info is pretty sparse online – but there are some gems out there (see Robs post above). I’m planning to do a series to go into some more depth about my OneNote/GTD setup. Stay tuned.

Thanks again for all the comments!