I've just been out and bought myself a Tablet PC. I decided to go for an HP TC4200, but that's another blog post at some point or another.

One thing that I have now started using is Microsoft OneNote 2003 so I can scribble notes when on client's sites. I've also found that if you are talking to clients they are less intimidated by it than if you opened your laptop up and started typing away.

One thing I wanted to be able to do was upload these OneNote scribblings to my Sharepoint site in a Document Library and at upload time add some metadata to the document entry such as Client, Product or whatever. However I couldn't get it to work I could save the OneNote document to the Sharepoint site (no problem with that) but I couldn't get it to ask me to update the metadata.

It works beautifully in Word and Excel, but not in OneNote <sigh>

It would appear that it doesn't work in OneNote by design. Yet another one of Microsoft's bizarre design decisions.

This document was very helpful in sorting this out:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sppt/wss/spoffint.mspx

Having lamented the lack of the auto-prompt from OneNote for metadata I am not going to let this put me off using either the product or Sharepoint to store my Notes. I will just have to remember to update the metadata that has been defined after saving the document.

If you haven't looked at Sharepoint as somewhere to save your documents, site surveys and other information then have a look. With SBS2003 Premium the data is also indexed with Office documents (I doubt it can index my scrawl in OneNote ) and you can also do similar things with PDFs and, I believe, AutoCAD drawings with the installation of the correct iFilter. Also if you design your metadata correctly then you can use that to filter what you see in a particular view enabling you to design powerful applications to help either your business or your client's business to be more efficient and effective......