Of course, more email and more meetings can lead to more confusion as it’s easy to lose track of conversations, or to overlook a commitment you’ve made (or someone else has made). In addition, more online work has tended to mean more meetings, so I know I’m not alone in relying on Outlook’s calendar to keep track of my days. As we’ve lost the ability to quickly pop in to someone’s office for a quick chat, those conversations have become email threads which has led to an overall increase in the amount of email most of us are dealing with. It’s an incredibly powerful productivity tool that many have found even more significant over the last year. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know I love using Microsoft Outlook in its own right. I summarised some aspects of this integration in a previous article here.

This integration was a clincher for me seven years ago when I decided to really embrace OneNote.

One of the things that makes Microsoft OneNote even more powerful – it’s one of my favourite features of the application – is its seamless integration with Microsoft Outlook. Additionally, there is a lot more work being completed online, with many having a heavy reliance on their laptop as a real tool of trade. I also think that the need to go more digital could be partly due to the fact that employees have lost access to their large office laser printers. In part, I think the roll out of Microsoft 365 across organisations, in response to the need to work remotely, is responsible for this increased interest in OneNote.

Keeping your notes ‘paperless’ has several advantages including removing the need to retype them later, making it easier to keep track of them and, perhaps most of all, making it harder to lose them! OneNote is a great tool for taking notes in meetings, including online meetings. In the past year, as many of us have been working from home, I’ve noticed more and more interest from people wanting to learn how to move to digital notetaking using Microsoft OneNote.

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