The feature that made OneNote click for me ...

Microsoft has announced a total of thirty new features and improvements for OneNote and Class Notebooks based on the feedback it has received from educators over the past school year. Just recently, ...

Microsoft’s OneNote is a surprisingly versatile tool for jotting down and organizing notes, random facts, and anything else that doesn’t fit into a spreadsheet or organized database. To keep it from ...

If this helps, it's designed for unstructured information storage, so fundamentally you use it as you'd use a notebook with the exception that organisation is something you can do ad-hoc. For example ...