Honestly. I do not know how I would’ve survived OneNote. It’s part of the Office Suite, but it’s…seriously, amazing. I use it for work now, and people keep asking me how I keep track of everything, and I attribute it to OneNote.
OneNote is GREAT b/c it’s like your office supply store—you create notebooks, folders in your notebooks, tabs in your folders, pages in your tabs, sub-pages in your pages, random stickies. You can highlight, you can mark things as important or to do, or as a follow up question. And then, you can collect all of your “important” flags in a class “folder” or keep track of definitions etc. etc.
You can import PDF’s and scribble notes on them. It’s incredibly intuitive when it comes to outlining and taking notes with regards to arranging the bullet points and re-arranging bullet points (super hard to do naturally in Word). You’ve got the SEARCH function!!
You can draw pictures in it super easily. When you copy-paste from a website, it’ll automatically insert the hyperlink as a source for you.
Anywho, I wish I were being paid by Microsoft to say all this, but it’s one of the most un-heard of Microsoft apps. Granted, Amazon says it’s about $30 for the 2003 edition (2007 is great, but you got pretty much most of the functionality you need with 2003—except for creating tables intuitively, damnit).