Using OneNote as a daily diary

[kita]

Anyone have success using onenote for a diary? I know about the dialy
journal powertoy, but I was curious if anybody is using onenote for
their daily dairy or are using another program.

I ask because I want to start one and I'm unsure if I need to go and
buy a diary software program or use OneNote 2007.

Thanks
Kita

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

If you need just a place to dump a log of activities performed, or a true
"Dear diary, today I did..." personal journal, OneNote can do this task.
You can manually create a structure to support this [1], or use the journal
powertoy.

I do this for my daily work journal; as I do tasks, I record them in my
work journal Notebook, and use Tags to categorize them if I need to follow
up on something or to help generate a progress report, etc.


[1] for example, create a new Notebook called Journal, a new Section in
that Notebook for each month, and a new Page in each Section for each day.

 

[Scott R.]

Erik's suggestion sounds like it would work very well on a system with fully
integrated Outlook. As "feejo" points out below, everyone doesn't use Outlook
while OneNote tags and such are great the program (as far as I can tell) has
no built-in calendar or task function which may be a deal-breaker for some
folks.

While I'm waiting for my MS Office suite to arrive I've been primarily using
GoBinder and have found it to be an effective and somewhat easier to use
alternative to OneNote. GoBinder is more like a digital day-planner and may
better suit your needs if you'd like to have a daily, weekly, and monthly
view of your diary-like journal entries.

I'm not bad-mouthing OneNote and may feel differently after I install the
complete MS Office software and spend a little more time with it but in the
meantime, I prefer GoBinder with its proprietary calendar, task, and
"notebook" integration.

If you need just a place to dump a log of activities performed, or a true
"Dear diary, today I did..." personal journal, OneNote can do this task.
You can manually create a structure to support this [1], or use the journal
powertoy.

I do this for my daily work journal; as I do tasks, I record them in my
work journal Notebook, and use Tags to categorize them if I need to follow
up on something or to help generate a progress report, etc.


[1] for example, create a new Notebook called Journal, a new Section in
that Notebook for each month, and a new Page in each Section for each day.

Anyone have success using onenote for a diary? I know about the daily
journal powertoy, but I was curious if anybody is using onenote for
their daily dairy or are using another program.

I ask because I want to start one and I'm unsure if I need to go and
buy a diary software program or use OneNote 2007.

Thanks
Kita

 

[Sean RN]

I too am curious about writing a daily journal. I've dabbled with a daily
blog, but maybe combining the two might work?
What is this daily journal powertoy?
I did a quick search and could not find anything?
Thanks for any help.

 

[Scott R.]

Here's a link to the download page at TabletDev.com:
http://www.tabletdev.com/Downloads.aspx

You can grab the Journal Writer and another cool PowerToy, called
Multi-Create that lets you create a OneNote notebook iwth any number of pages
and page titles you specify, all at once.

The Journal Writer IS pretty cool; it places an icon in your taskbar that
creates and dates a new daily page the first time you access it on a new day.
All the pages will reside in a "year" notebook sectioned off into "month"
tabs. The notebook is automatically created the first time you run the
program.

If page templates are important to you, you may be disappointed with the JW
PT; there doesn't seem to be any way to use anything but a blank page
template.

Both PTs are pretty cool though.

Erik's suggestion sounds like it would work very well on a system with fully
integrated Outlook. As "feejo" points out below, everyone doesn't use Outlook
while OneNote tags and such are great the program (as far as I can tell) has
no built-in calendar or task function which may be a deal-breaker for some
folks.

While I'm waiting for my MS Office suite to arrive I've been primarily using
GoBinder and have found it to be an effective and somewhat easier to use
alternative to OneNote. GoBinder is more like a digital day-planner and may
better suit your needs if you'd like to have a daily, weekly, and monthly
view of your diary-like journal entries.

I'm not bad-mouthing OneNote and may feel differently after I install the
complete MS Office software and spend a little more time with it but in the
meantime, I prefer GoBinder with its proprietary calendar, task, and
"notebook" integration.

If you need just a place to dump a log of activities performed, or a true
"Dear diary, today I did..." personal journal, OneNote can do this task.
You can manually create a structure to support this [1], or use the journal
powertoy.

I do this for my daily work journal; as I do tasks, I record them in my
work journal Notebook, and use Tags to categorize them if I need to follow
up on something or to help generate a progress report, etc.


[1] for example, create a new Notebook called Journal, a new Section in
that Notebook for each month, and a new Page in each Section for each day.

Anyone have success using onenote for a diary? I know about the daily
journal powertoy, but I was curious if anybody is using onenote for
their daily dairy or are using another program.

I ask because I want to start one and I'm unsure if I need to go and
buy a diary software program or use OneNote 2007.

Thanks
Kita

 

[Scott R.]

Here's a link to the download page at TabletDev.com:
http://www.tabletdev.com/Downloads.aspx

You can grab the Journal Writer and another cool PowerToy, called
Multi-Create that lets you create a OneNote notebook iwth any number of pages
and page titles you specify, all at once.

The Journal Writer IS pretty cool; it places an icon in your taskbar that
creates and dates a new daily page the first time you access it on a new day.
All the pages will reside in a "year" notebook sectioned off into "month"
tabs. The notebook is automatically created the first time you run the
program.

If page templates are important to you, you may be disappointed with the JW
PT; there doesn't seem to be any way to use anything but a blank page
template.

Both PTs are pretty cool though.

 

[golden_gurl]

Here's a link to the download page at TabletDev.com:
http://www.tabletdev.com/Downloads.aspx

You can grab the Journal Writer and another cool PowerToy, called
Multi-Create that lets you create a OneNote notebook iwth any number of pages
and page titles you specify, all at once.

The Journal Writer IS pretty cool; it places an icon in your taskbar that
creates and dates a new daily page the first time you access it on a new day.
All the pages will reside in a "year" notebook sectioned off into "month"
tabs. The notebook is automatically created the first time you run the
program.

If page templates are important to you, you may be disappointed with the JW
PT; there doesn't seem to be any way to use anything but a blank page
template.

Both PTs are pretty cool though.

 

[golden_gurl]

I want to have a daily diary also. I downloaded journal writer and
multicreate. Now I just have to figure out how to use them. I use have
tried posting a message in outlook in my journal, but it is not exactly what
I am looking for.