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NoteBook User Profile – Businessman & Marketing Consultant
1. What is your name and occupation?
My name is Robert Schumacher, and I’m an equity partner in a number of businesses and marketing consultant to others.
2. Please describe a typical day at work.
Since I have the pleasure of working at home, I start the day with a cup of coffee in my home office. While watching the Today Show, to see if the world hasn’t blown up while I slept, I wake up my Macintosh computers, and then check my e-mail.
If all is reasonably well, I open up my Notebooks and begin work. I start with my Notebook ToDo list for that day. Then I go to the Notebook for the specific project I want to work on. For example, if it’s a Wordpress site, Notebook has the links, access codes and everything used to build and maintain the site. Each tab contains the respective resources I’ll need. If I have to find something online, I can copy it into NoteBook. The Notebook also has a steadily evolving action plan in outline format for every project. Not only does it help me organize the work, I can pull it up for presentations without having to go to several different sources.
I change Notebooks as I put one project aside and open another one. As work comes in from staff writers or other sources I save it to my hard drive and drag and drop a copy (thumbnail image) into NoteBook.
3. How has NoteBook boosted your performance with your work?
I have Notebooks for major areas I work on, like my Internet money-making sites. I have Notebooks for each business I work on. I try to keep all resources, documents, access codes, images, etc., within the Notebook, or have links to them. Before NoteBook, I’d spend an hour looking for something and ten minutes working on it. Now most things are at hand, especially with the superb indexing features.
4. What are your favorite NoteBook features?
It looks and acts like a common garden variety notebook. Now you may not think that is a big deal, but it is of enormous help and, dare I say it, comfort. I really like writing in notebooks. This program has the look and feel of a notebook. It acts like a notebook. And it has other sensational features. Best of all, I have never read the manual. I know, that’s dumb. But the program is so intuitive you can just start using it. I realize there are so many features that would help me if I read the manual (is there a manual?).
5. Do you use NoteBook with any other apps?
Most all of my other apps and critical documents are inventoried, tracked and accessed through NoteBook. If I create a Word or Quark document, I’ll drag and drop it into a Notebook. That way I keep it in the appropriate place and find it when I need it. NoteBook is like a central dispatcher for me.
6. Has NoteBook replaced other apps?
Do you mean all the other notebook-like programs I bought and gave up on? eNote. Chapters. NotepadPro. Notes. PLainText. OmniFocus. etc. etc. I wish I was exaggerating, but I have left off several others.
7. Do you use NoteBook with any other apps?
NoteBook is the glue that holds together all the businesses and projects I work on, day-in and day-out.
