Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Collaborate over the Internet with OneNote and Office Live : Matt Ranlett's SharePoint and Office blog

As a OneNote enthusiast I always wanted to know if it’s possible to collaborate and share your notes over the internet.  OneNote requires a SharePoint web site for shared notebooks which is usually a hassle to setup.  But it turns out there is an easy way to do it with the Office Live Small Business account.  Check out the following blog entry for details:

Collaborate over the Internet with OneNote and Office Live : Matt Ranlett's SharePoint and Office blog

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Bookmarks are becoming a thing of the past

I collected my web bookmarks for 8 years or so.  I cherished them and carefully transfered them from one computer to another.  But I rarely bothered to look what I actually collected.  Random bookmark folders and various links of temporary importance dominated in my bookmarks.  Today I decided to sort them out, because it was clearly started to become just a huge mess.  It turned out I didn’t really need many of them.  Many bookmarks were just useless because I can find the same information in Google faster than in my bookmark folders.  I went from more than 700 bookmarks down to about 250, restoring some order in my favorites.  After this excercise, it became clear to me that if I need to find something I would first search Google than again… search Google and only then search my bookmarks.  The need to use bookmarks is significantly reduced.  I decided that I will collect only rare information of a special meaning to me, the information that I had a hard time finding on the internet.