There’s another office-like productivity app about to hit the shelves. It’s called Scrybe and currently you can only request to be added to the beta, which I’ve done. Here’s a little more information:
ScrybeTM is a groundbreaking online organizer that caters to today´s lifestyle in a cohesive and intuitive way.
Simple solutions for some age old problems.

Seamless offline access – without any installations
Rich and fast like a desktop
Intuitive zoomable calendar views
Organize your thoughts with bookmarks, web snippets, images and files
To-do lists integrated with your calendar
Share and collaborate with friends and co-workers
Elegant, compact and handy print formats
Easily work across multiple timezones
Import and export from …read more

The EverNote Corporation is proud to announce that we have launched EverNote Plus 1.5 for Windows, an improved, faster version of our popular Windows software.For a limited time, until October 31, we would like to offer you an exclusive 25% discount to purchase EverNote Plus for just $29.95:
You can access your limited-time promotion here.
EverNote is a nice clean tool, but not one I’ve ever really started using myself.
With EverNote 1.5 you can easily capture, store and quickly access typed and handwritten memos, webpage excerpts, emails, phone messages, addresses, passwords, brainstorms, sketches, documents and more!

There are some informative documents and information on the Microsoft Learning site for Office 2007. If you haven’t visited there before here’s a list of some of the items currently available.

Course 4697: Introduction to the New Microsoft Office User Interface
Course 4622: What’s New in Microsoft Office Access 2007
Course 4623: What’s New in Microsoft Office Excel 2007
Course 4624: What’s New in Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
Course 4625: What’s New in Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
Course 4626: What’s New in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
Course 4627: What’s New in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
Course 4628: What’s New in Microsoft Office Word 2007
Course 4629: What’s New in …read more

Don’t check your spell check, I did say “Prodcasts”. It’s a new term coined for a productivity podcast by Shawn Murray. Not sure I like the term, let’s just call it what it is, an interview delivered in MP3 or WMA format that can be enjoyed from your computer or portable media device.
All that aside though, if you’re interested in learning more about the functionality of Office, but don’t have time to sit and read, this may just be the thing for you.
There are lots of topics now available, check the list out at the The IW Center, A community …read more

Okay, this isn’t really a full-blown online office suite app, but it’s got some functionality like that of Microsoft’s OneNote and your basic Notepad program and basic clip board functionality.
Google Notebook is now available:
Google Notebook makes web research of all kinds – from planning a vacation to researching a school paper to buying a car – easier and more efficient by enabling you to clip and gather information even while you’re browsing the web.
And since Google Notebook lives in your browser, you won’t be left with a scattered collection of notes, Word docs, and browser bookmarks to sort through; all …read more

With the announcement that Word 2007 will have built-in blogging support, do you believe this will dramatically increase the amount of blogging activity? It’s not like blogs are slowing down at any point, but how much more of an impact would this have on the blogosphere?
I’ve begun playing around with 3rd party blog editing tools like Qumana and Performancing, but honestly haven’t migrated over to either one of them completely. Too many variations on what to expect from the post when it’s live. For me, saving the the admin link as a favorite to the various blogs I author is …read more

Just a humorous little post from Jason Looney about his experience with Microsoft OneNote. I wonder if the development team will take this little bit of feedback into account in the OneNote 12 version.
Your parent company has me trained like a lab monkey, and now you have the gall to sit and quietly ignore me when I press Ctrl+S?? Come on! After all the Ctrl+S’ing I’ve done in my days, you owe me.
So do something. Anything. Go back up a document or something. Optimize one of your INDICES. Find a movie I’d like on …read more

Granted Jason Powell’s review of the usefullness of OneNote is his experience with OneNote 2003 and not the new Office 12 version. However, I wanted to post on his experience for two main reasons:

Does anyone out there have experience comparing the newest version of OneNote 12 with what’s available in EverNote? Are there any comparisons?
Jason highlights the fact that there’s special Microsoft charity pricing available for certain organizations to use Microsoft products at great discounts.

Thoughts anyone? Anyone out there currently using EverNote and/or beta testing OneNote 12?
Source: OneNote vs. EverNote by Jason Powell

Are we really in a digital age? I don’t think so, and here’s why. I look around my desk and I still see non-digital information around me. There’s the little post-it note reminding me of something on my monitor, there’s a handful of little steno pads sitting on my desk, there’s my checkbook and a pen sitting next to me, a stack of papers in various folders and sorting trays and of course a stack of business cards as well.
If it were truly a digital age, wouldn’t all of this information be completely housed and accessible via my computer or …read more

Paul Thurrott continues to provide some great information and insight into Office 12 and all thinks Windows for that matter.
One of the interesting trivia facts he shares in his article is that the initial Microsoft Word had about 100 commands that were accessible through the menu based navigation system. Microsoft Word 2003 on the other hand, has more than 1500! You can quickly understand how some changes in structure and navigation on using those commands effectively would be important.
Over the years, Microsoft has tried to address these problems by adding new user interface elements that expose functionality in more discoverable …read more