OneNote as a Wiki front-end

It just occurred to me that Microsoft’s OneNote, the application “for capturing, organizing, and collaboratively sharing information”, would work well as a front-end to a Wiki.

For example: A Wiki server could act as repository for publishing shared OneNote pages that in turn can be collaborated on either via the browser (in the true Wiki sense) or within the OneNote application itself.

IMHO, this type of integration would push Wiki’s into corporate environments where knowledge management seems to involve too much post-processing work.

I believe this is in part because the tools don’t focus enough on the edges of knowledge gathering. Specifically, where and when knowledge is captured (e.g. ad hoc in meetings, email, blogs, the coffee maker et al)

Of course I’m simplifying the process and the technical hurdles, but there certainly seems to be synergy between a Wiki and OneNote. Perhaps even integration with SharePoint as a dashboard would suffice the corporate enterprise enough to make it viable.

However, the technical obstacles could be simplified if OneNote’s file format was XML-based, but unfortunately this is not the case, according to MS Office Group Program Manager Chris Pratley:

“The file format is not XML, but it’s a very structured binary format that can quickly become XML. We decided not to do XML on this release because it wasn’t core to the basic note-taking. But we architected it for the ability to do XML in our next release very easily.”

Although there’s hope for future releases of OneNote and there’s also the XML file format in Word 2003 (WordML) and other Office 2003 applications like InfoPath to consider, but my question to the LazyWeb is whether the opportunity to integrate OneNote with a Wiki is worth the effort today?