Posting once a month and plug software not games… pathetic human!

So getting on with it… I’ve found that MS One Note is amazing for keeping game designs more organized.

Benefits:

• Main organizing group: The notebook
  • great for keeping track of those scratch notes!
• OCR + Voice recognition search
  • keep notes, and SEARCH throughout even graphics with text pertaining to the topic
• Keeps perfect Word Formating
• Publishes to PDF, which is where many docs are kept anyway.
• Hyperlinks within itself
• Main hierarchy: Notebook -> Section Tabs -> pages
• Cheap ~$50~ bucks for student… part of Home/student office for $140… pretty good deal.
• MS will continue to support it
• Tablet PC and wacom tablet ready

Could need improvement:

• Does not publish self referencial hyperlinks
• No embedable content
  • It would be brilliant if it were to embed flash, even silverlight, making it able to access prototypes.
  • Video would be great!
• Does not publish multiple pages
  • I’m basically asking for a wysiwyg frontpage for dummies, but a man can dream!
• Not available on mac which does not allow it to be crossplatform

here’s a link for you to try it… it’s a very good option to using word, whose tools options are limited for all the Random Access game design docs should have:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/default.aspx

I’ll keep adding benefits/improvements as i find them…

Purum