OneNote Wonder Chris Pratley blogs on and fills us in on OneNote 12's expanded view of shared folders. It seems the OneNote team is really pushing the vision for the next version as a shared workspace.
Here's an excerpt:
With a shared notebook:
- You can work by yourself or with others - it is asynchronous
- You can come and go as you please - there is no "session" to reconnect to, and no duplicated pages when you reconnect
- Everyone can edit at once
- Everyone or anyone can be offline (no net connection) and still edit
- Offline edits are synced and auto-merged with the shared notebook when the user gets back on-line (even several weeks' worth of changes)
- Changes are automatically propagated to a server and thence to any of the clients involved in the shared notebook
- The contents can be searched instantly since they are cached locally and indexed.
- Team members can be added at any time and their machines will sync up to the latest bits.
- Everything written is tagged with who wrote/modified it and when it was created/modified
- You can query the notebook to show you what was written since you last looked at it - the actual text gets highlighted.
- Creating a shared notebook is as simple as creating a new notebook and picking a file share or SharePoint (or any WebDAV-capable server) for it - we'll pick a decent default as well if you don't care. If you make a notebook shared, we'll offer to send an email invitation to the team members you specify and that's all there is to it.
Happiness on a stick.
Check it out here.
