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I’m a big fan of OneNote, ever since it was released. However, since I’m working on several PCs every day, I need my stuff synchronized between my machines all the time. OneNote lacks in this area, since it does not support any web sync out-of-the-box.

This resulted in me checking out EverNote, a free tool, comparable to OneNote. While it looks good, I still loved OneNote more (possible because I’m used to it), but EverNote has one big advantage: it stores my notes online, and so I have my notes with me on every machine.

Still willing to use OneNote, I tried a different approach, using the power of the cloud. I thought, why not store my notebooks in Live Mesh, the free synchronization tool from Microsoft that on top offers another 5GB of free storage “in the cloud”. So I tried it and it works great. Simply create a notebook in OneNote, store it in a Mesh folder (or upgrade it’s current folder to a Live Mesh folder), do this on all your PCs and you have the best of two worlds: the goodness of OneNote and the sync features of EverNote.