How O'll be looking to use One Note

First up I'm still trying to figure out the what and hows of a couple products and what will work best for me. Full disclosure I've also looked at Evernote and had mixed feelingsabout it. However, I looked at it because I looked at Onenote and wasn't thrilled with it either.
So where does that leave things. My preference is to use Onenote because I don't want to pay for the basic product and Onenote comes with office.
Regardless, if the product in the end I need to get productive with it and to that end I think the course will be helpful.
How will I be using note taking:
- I'm in the preliminary stage of doing a biography... so notetaking
- I want to use it as part of a workflow in my photography work. When I'm culling the images I make editing notes... I may want include some other information as well. But it relates to each image (or putting it differently each inastance) and searching capabilites will be important.
- Journaling and research