Replacing other methods

Part of your success in applying the habit of using OneNote is going to be replacing other methods of notetaking or information storage that you currently use.

I can still see the face of my student who declared I'm not giving up my paper notebook as he walked into the training session on OneNote. I smiled and assured him that he did not have to, although I was hoping he would change his mind, and he did. By the end of the training session, he said it was time to retire that notebook. OneNote was just so much more effective for his work.

While this habit has to be created, another likely needs to be broken. You may need to give up something that you have done or used for a long time, to gain the true advantages of OneNote. However, let's be careful about our methods for doing this, especially if it affects others. We do not want to tell people that they have to give up something—we want them to figure it out for themselves. One of the...