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Chris Playing the "OneNote Sax" that plays.., you guessed it -- "One Note"

"When I am sitting in a meeting or just at my desk trying to work my thoughts out it often happens that I need to do a little math. In these cases I am already in OneNote, either taking notes or capturing my thoughts in some way. Now I need to know what our install size is going to be if we remove a few components, or what % of our dev budget the napkin math feature will be. So I could reach for a calculator or try to find the one built in to Windows, or maybe launch Excel. If I did, it would take awhile, it's a context switch, and I might get "the answer" but I would have no record of the calculation or how I did it unless I typed it into OneNote. Hmm. What if I just type it in to OneNote right there in my notes?"

"Napkin math falls into the "art" category because it clearly isn't a top priority for our customers (zero people asked for it) or the vision for the product or any other budget category. But it is cool, it works just as I want when I need it, it is different, and it makes me love my software. We've already got a few smiles from our beta users about it".

It also gives a pretty good bit of insight into what is in Chris' head as he works on this dev team (a little scary there Chris)Head over and check this one out.....