Microsoft OneNote: A Gift for the Hopeless Romantic (Or Obsessive Organizer)
Notebooks, netbooks, tablets—what’s on your Christmas list this year? Before you spend hundreds of dollars on any of these gadgets, you might want to consider an inexpensive (and even free!) present for the hopeless romantic or an obsessive organizer: Microsoft OneNote. This under-rated, under-used but truly useful product comes bundled with Microsoft Office Suites for the desktop and Office Professional Plus in Office 365, the latest Microsoft cloud technology. It is also available as a stand-alone program for $79.99 or free at Skydrive.com with a Windows Live account.
For the hopeless romantic who—seven years later—may still quote lines from The Notebook on Facebook, this is a great product for you.
For those who somehow missed this 2004 blockbuster here's a summary. The movie opens with an elderly man reading from a worn out notebook, a love story to an elderly woman who we find out later is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Set in the idyllic Seabrook Island in South Carolina, the story is about two young lovers (Noah and Allie) from the opposite sides of the track who fell madly in love with each other one summer in the 1940s. As can be expected from a tearjerker movie, the two young lovers were forced apart only to be happily reunited in the end. But the story doesn’t end there. As it turns out, the young lovers in the story are none other than the elderly couple in the movie’s opening scene. Allie had written the story in a notebook knowing that her illness will soon rob her of her memory and had instructed Noah to “Read this to me and I’ll come back to you.”
Part of the mass appeal of the movie even to this today is the heart-wrenching scene where Allie, after listening to the story once again begins to remember that she and Noah are the people referenced in the notebook. They share a few tearful, tender moments as they reminisce the past only to be shattered the next minute when Allie’s illness sets in again and she suddenly has no idea who Noah is and pushes him away.
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