Outlook/exchange notes replacement with security

Question

The notes feature in Outlook/exchange is secure and accessible through OWA and on my Blackberry/BES.

How can Onenote offer the same functionality as I am looking to switch to Windows Phone 7 which only offers Onenote support?

Answer 1

Of course the big hammer (OneNote) will become a useful tool for me, but I will lament the loss of simplicity.  The more complicated it gets the more vulnerable you become to problems.  Outlook the application with exchange has been for me remarkably reliable.  Now I have to use THREE applications to do what one used to do,  ARGH!

Answer 2

Are these notes going to no longer be supported?

I don't know, but given the emphasis put on OneNote, I fear the worst for you. Who knows, once you have got into the habit of using a big hammer, you may find unexpected use for it ;)

There is also Evernote and I believe numerous small notes-like applications in the Marketplace - you could check those out.

Jan Roelof

Answer 3

OneNote is a very capable product.  But in my case its the equivilant of useing a 50 lb hammer on a trim nail.  There are just a handful of things that I need to keep track of, that need to be secure and accesable when I work iwth email, calanders and contacts.  Its just a shame that I now have to use three applications to keep up wiht about a dozen key pieces of infomation.

Are these notes going to no longer be supported?

Thanks for the reply,

Brad

Answer 4

The notes feature in Outlook/exchange is secure and accessible through OWA and on my Blackberry/BES.

How can Onenote offer the same functionality as I am looking to switch to Windows Phone 7 which only offers Onenote support?

I'm afraid Mark's answer does not answer your question and the reference to a Zune forum is useless.

OneNote is a fantastic application, by the way, and it compares to Outlook notes as maybe a Rolls Royce does to a Beetle. You'll be entering a whole new world, though ;)

In a nutshell, if you want to use OneNote in combination with Windows Phone 7, you keep master copies of your OneNote notebooks on your SkyDrive (in the cloud). Your phone's OneNote app can then be made to synchronize with these notebooks. If you have OneNote on your desktop PC, it, too, can synchronize with these same notebooks. Same for your laptop. Etcetera. In this way, you have identical copies of everything everywhere, with the master being on SkyDrive. Note, however, that it is no longer possible to sync phone and PC over a cable.

I don't know if this makes any sense if you have never worked with OneNote. Ask away if it doesn't.

As to security, I don't know, honestly. How secure is data on SkyDrive? That's how secure your notes will be.

Hope this helps,

Jan Roelof

Answer 5

Windows 7 phone cannot be syncronized directly with Outlook.

For information on how to sync the phone with computer, post your query in the forum below.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/zune/forum/music