My Cambodia OneNote TripBook

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Next summer, I plan on visiting Cambodia with my wife and her best friend, who happens to be Cambodian. We have always talked about going throughout our college lives together, but now that we are grown adults and can afford to do so, we plan to make it a reality immediately. 

Since I enjoy being a planner, I decided to go ahead and start laying out the details of our trip. I wanted to be able to pinpoint the most important cites and establish an itinerary that will be enjoyable and action-packed. 

Microsoft's new Office application, OneNote, ended up being the perfect program to allow me to do what I want. 

Here's a screenshot of my Cambodia OneNote TripBook.

Since so much research had to be conducted on the web, some of OneNote's functions really saved me time. The Screen Clipping action, for example, allowed me to grab a screenshot and insert it into my OneNote immediately. It was so easy and saved me the time I would have spent screen capturing it and inserting it into the program manually. 

Since there are 3 of us going on the trip, the Co-Authoring feature was ideal for our planning. With a touch of a button, I could share the OneNote with the other two parties and even tag items that would link out to the web for even more nuggets of information. 

For ultimate note-taking, OneNote allows you to scribble anywhere within the program. Since I really wanted the other two individuals to choose the hotel we were staying at first and foremost, I went ahead and circled my choice hotel before I shared it with them. I told them to do the same thing, but in a different color. Aside from actually talking about it over the phone, this could be the best way to come to a group decision while in remote locations.

Thanks to Microsoft's OneNote program, we are now ready for a trip to Cambodia that I won't need to pack for for another 11 months. It feels good to be so ahead of the game. Yet, I have a feeling we'll have to keep passing the TripBook back and forth as our research leads us to new ideas for our trip. 

To see my complete TripBook in full action, please visit onenotetravel.com.