OneNote: A Newbie Life-Saving Tool!

[Patricia Joseph]

When I joined BP, I never imagined the site would have so much FREE, valuable information available. It didn't take long for me to find out that the wealth of information was overwhelming! Being new to RE, I wanted to digest as much information as possible. But, the brain can only handle so much.

OneNote to the rescue! If you've never used OneNote, you should give it a try. This is one of Microsoft's hidden gems. Many of my colleagues aren't aware that OneNote is a part of the Microsoft Suite. 

The beauty of OneNote is that you can create individual notebooks, which now are accessible in the cloud, to save any information: files, links, images, emails. OneNote does auto-saving so you don't have to remember to save your information.

Navigating through BP, I found myself often getting detoured to read another interesting article, and then forgetting where my original article was located.

I created a real estate investing notebook in OneNote to help keep me focused and organized. My notebook includes multiple tabs for different areas of real estate investing. Here are the tabs included in my notebook:

Getting Started
Market Analysis
Analyze Properties
Analyze Deals
Financing Strategies
Multifamily Investing

So now, whenever I find articles or member posted information on BP that I want to reference later, I just add to my REI notebook in OneNote.

Hope this information is helpful! If you need help or have specific questions, just send me a PM.