This means I don’t lose work, even if forget to save. OneNote automatically saves your work on an almost constant basis in the background. But the last choice (to insert the file as a printout)? LOVE IT! I used this with a conference handout to make my notes next to the speakers content. You can insert a hyperlink, or choose the second option to have an icon on your page that you double-click on to open the file. #2 – You can attach files to any page in OneNote.Ĭan you writers say character charts? Photos? I thought of moving this higher on the list, it’s so sublimely amazing.įrom your Windows Explorer, click and drag any file onto a OneNote Page. It can even record the same right into a page! Now that we’re in conference season, I’ve made the goal of adding my meeting and class notes into OneNote, and then recording those extras things that I didn’t get down in my notes. OneNote will also add audio or video files to your notebook pages. This shortcut automatically files it in the Unfiled Tab in OneNote, which you can move around. Imagine surfing the web and pulling up a side note by either pressing the Windows logo button + N or clicking the N (OneNote) icon button in the task bar (down by the time) and being able to jot down your notes to keep in your book’s OneNote binder. #4 – Send whole or part of any page to OneNote with a shortcut key Note: You’ll see your “Unfiled Notes” tab at the top of your OneNote screen. Click Ctrl +P on your keyboard (or you can choose File > Print) and your page is sent to an unfiled note in OneNote, which can be moved to any section or page. When researching, you can send a whole page or part of a page directly to OneNote. My bookmarks tend to get lost because there’s so many. I’m thinking of keeping an active writing notebook with tabs for each topic to store the amazing links that I run across in my web surfing. You can copy or create hyperlinks from any page, anywhere, and put it in your notebook page. (If you haven’t set up SkyDrive, the One Note file and the file where you pasted the link must be on the same computer!) Right click on your OneNote table and choose “Copy Link to Paragraph” to embed it in a document anywhere else on your computer.Who doesn’t love a good table…perhaps you need one listing scene elements? You can create tables and charts directly on a OneNote page and then: #7 – Tables and Charts (which can be sent to Word or Outlook!) Tips on setting up your OneDrive in OneNote and getting the iPhone app are here (along with a ton of other amazing OneNote answers). OneDrive is only available with OneNote 2010 and later! It will not work with the older versions. Note: You need to first set up the app on your smart phone and you must also set up OneDrive (used to be SkyDrive), which is helpful to do anyway. Yes, you heard me! If you have a smart phone, it can synchronize with the OneNote on your computer. #8 – Sync up OneNote between your phone and computer I’m copying and pasting a screen shot of the Tags drop down to the right but there are even more than are listed. Why is this exciting? One Note has a series of Tags that you can add to any page that are easy to search by with the “Find Tags” button on the ribbon. Incidentally, my favorite shortcut is Ctrl +PageDown to “flip thru” the pages in any section of your notebook.Ĭlick here for the latest OneNote and Microsoft updates that affect writers. Note: You’ll see lots of keyboard shortcuts through this document and now that OneNote is available for the Mac, I’m going to have to dig up some of those. Use the Ctrl+1 shortcut key again to add more checkboxes.In the top middle of your Home ribbon in OneNote, there is a “To Do” button.You just check off the item when you’re done and you can keep it for posterity or edit the list as you move to a new day.Ĭlick to type in your OneNote notebooks page (top tabs are sections, right side tabs are pages) and type “Ctrl+1” OneNote allows you to insert handy checklists. I could do several posts on the topic (and I probably will) but when I stopped to think about what I use the MOST in the program, it was pretty easy to come up with my Top Ten fave features. OneNote allows you to keep this information in the same format electronically so it’s searchable. If you’re the organized type, it’s likely that you have a binder with all of the research information and pictures for your book. Capture text, images, video and audio notes, and keep important information readily available. OneNote is a planner and note taking software. But as a writer, my hands down favorite lately is OneNote. I’m a software trainer by day so I have several “true loves” in the software realm.
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