I'm trying to get off of still using pen and paper, and have been trying to get used to onenote. I'll agree with others that it's a bit bloated, but: 1) I like

I'm trying to get off of still using pen and paper, and have been trying to get used to onenote. I'll agree with others that it's a bit bloated, but: 1) I like the possibility that I can freely draw and "whiteboard" in it. I like thinking spatially at times. I typically still do most spatial planning/whiteboarding in excel, but I'm trying to see if I can do the same in onenote 2) I plan to eventually retain scanned docs with it (it has ocr searching like evernote). This also means I could just pen and paper for notes, then take a picture with em and OCR em in. 3) the sidenote feature seems really cool, just hit Windows+N wherever you are to type down something. It's a small step towards pervasive note-taking. I haven't tried mobilenoter/other syncing interfaces with it yet. I'm also looking at org-mode as an alterative, not sure. Things I hate about onenote: it doesn't have the freeform tagging infrastructure evernote has, and is too obsessed with trying to feel like a physical notebook. That said, evernote seems too oriented towards capturing outside information and less focused on one's own thoughts. If onenote had a good delicious-like tagging experience for web bookmarks, I'd probably be sold on it.