Jon B
Owner, Circulation Service America, Inc. (and others) Brochure, Newspaper, and Magazine Distribution.
Business Plan in MS OneNote?
I recently saw a post on askVC.com where the VC marveled at receiving a business plan written with blog software - so there were nifty tabs and hyper-links and such. For years I have wondered why there was never an MSWord with tabs for different sheets - just like in Excel.
Having recently discovered the joys of OneNote - it seems like a great way to organize a business plan. The Section/folder for "Company Overview" could include pages for the overview itself, the Exec Summary, and the Mission. The Section for "Financials" would have different pages for each projected balance sheet and income statement.
Would this format be too informal? Would it allow the reader to go right to the "meat" of the presentation - back and forth between pages instead of searching?
Who out there is using OneNote, and what are your thoughts?
Good Answers (1)
Guy V
Founder and Chief Consultant at Traveling Tech Guy
Best Answers in: Business Plans (1), Computer Networking (1), Information Security (1), Software Development (1)
I think it's a great idea. I've used OneNote for over a year now and I've organized several tasks and customer related material in it.
The ability to sort projects into "notebooks", every notebook into pages and subpages is great. With the Microsoft Search capability, all your notebooks become flat and you can search them as if they are a single, contiguous file. I also love the screen capture tool and the ability to embed media files.
The only problem I see is not many people have OneNote. I had to install it seperately from Office (I use 2007). So, great tool, but you'd have to export information to share it.
Regards,
Guy
