Pros and Cons of Organizing Emails in Outlook 2007 vs OneNote 200

[OneNoteFan]

Hi everyone-- this is my first post in this forum.

First, if anyone from Microsoft is reading this, I'd like to let you know
how much I absolutely love OneNote 2007. It is so useful I can't even imagine
not using OneNote at home or at work, and I can't wait to see the new
functionality in future versions of OneNote!

I have a question regarding the stroing of emails in OneNote 2007. I've seen
a couple of web pages that talk about creating copies of messages stored in
Outlook 2007 within OneNote 2007. See, for example, this one:
http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/archive/2006/05/23/605661.aspx. The
author writes, "This is useful if you are collecting research in the form of
web pages, emails, documents etc. into one place in your notebook." Please
bear with me if I am being dense or even brain dead, but is the reason that
is valuable is to take advantage of the integrated search functionality
within OneNote? Are there any disadvantages of sending Outlook messages to
OneNote? Also, for people who choose to send Outlook messages to OneNote,
after sending the message from Outlook to OneNote, are you deleting the
message in Outlook, or do you have 2 copies of the same message (1 in
Outlook, 1 in OneNote)?

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I have a question regarding the stroing of emails in OneNote 2007.
I've seen a couple of web pages that talk about creating copies of
messages stored in Outlook 2007 within OneNote 2007. See, for
example, this one:
http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/archive/2006/05/23/605661.aspx.
The author writes, "This is useful if you are collecting research
in the form of web pages, emails, documents etc. into one place in
your notebook." Please bear with me if I am being dense or even
brain dead, but is the reason that is valuable is to take advantage
of the integrated search functionality within OneNote?

This might be a reason, but the search features in Outlook are really
powerful too. They are index-based as is the search in ON (if Windows
Desktop Search [WDS] is installed).

Are there
any disadvantages of sending Outlook messages to OneNote?

OneNote not really is an instrument for organize one's mail.
I would not use ON (the most used application in my system) for storing
and organizing mails.
It's good for keeping a certain subset of mails together with other
items belonging to a certain subject. The strength on ON to be a store
for things from different origin can be made use of this way.
But IMO it's not an instrument for archiving mails.

Also, for
people who choose to send Outlook messages to OneNote, after
sending the message from Outlook to OneNote, are you deleting the
message in Outlook, or do you have 2 copies of the same message (1
in Outlook, 1 in OneNote)?

The latter is what I am doing. I keep the mails in their place in
Outlook and just put copies in ON.

Rainald