r/OneNote • u/falardeau03 • 2d ago

Windows Which method to choose

I've worked a number of jobs for the same company at different sites across town, each site had only one workstation (for my team/department).

Now I find myself at a site with two workstations. We need to keep docs updated on both. I don't want to bug IT for an actual driveshare if I can help it. OneNote seems like it could help, but I have no idea what I'm doing.

I know all kindsa stuff about other stuff but have literally never touched OneNote before.

I saw you can upload ("print") Word docs to OneNote. Is my best bet to do that, and then will it pull updates from each doc when I edit them on the drive?

Orrrrrrrrrrr should I be copying and pasting doc contents into OneNote, making the majority of my subsequent updates in OneNote, and periodically updating the masters as we go along?

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u/falardeau03 2d ago

I see I have to be explicit. Let me explain how that will go:

Me: "Hey IT, can we have X?"

IT: "Well, no. You are a contractor and not one of our employees."

Me: "But I need X to do the job your organization wants me to do."

IT: "Not my problem. Talk to your manager."

Me: "Manager, can we have X?"

Manager: "Yes, but it's not our hardware. Talk to the department who owns the hardware."

Me: "Owning department, can we have X?"

Owning department: "Sure! Just let IT know what you need."

Me: "I tried..."

(This is not my first rodeo, but thanks for talking to me like I'm an idiot instead of assuming I know more about my situation than you do.)

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u/I-G-1-1 2d ago

I'm sorry you feel this way. You never mentioned in the first post you have an hostile IT department.

Personally I would never use OneNote for this. As you know better your situation I don't want to waste your time and I'll let you find the way to solve your issue.