Microsoft emailed me to tell me that they're giving away a copy of
OneNote to PDC attendees. I installed it to play around with it, and it seems to be quite a useful application. OneNote allows you to take free-form notes, works on TabletPC, integrates with Outlook, is shareable between team members, allows external document linking, allows you to insert video or audio, is fully configurable based on your categorization scheme, has a bunch of pre-defined templates and is searchable (and I'm sure plenty of other features that I haven't discovered yet). I don't know about you, but I have todo.txt files laying all over my hard drive. I put all of them into OneNote, and it seems to me that this makes more sense. I'll be giving OneNote a chance here, and I look forward to bundling all of my PDC notes into it to see how it will work out.