MAKING YOUR LIFE EASIER WITH

MICROSOFT ONENOTE

Presented by Janet Crum

Reference Awareness Day, January 21, 2015

WHAT IS ONENOTE?

• A note-taking application

• Included with Microsoft Office since 2003

• Free download or can use online version free:

http://www.onenote.com

• Desktop app available for Windows 7, Windows 8, MacOS

(Mavericks and up)

• Mobile app available for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone

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WHY ONENOTE? WHY NOT USE WORD?

• Organized like a notebook rather than like a document

• Combine information from different sources, in different formats,

into a single page, tab, or notebook – and organize it easily.

• Searchability

• Integration with Outlook

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DEMO: QUICK OVERVIEW

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ONENOTE AND OUTLOOK: EMAIL

•Send an email to a note

•Email a note

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ONENOTE AND OUTLOOK: CALENDAR

• Create a note

from an

appointment –

and add meeting

notes to it,

attach files, etc.

• Link from

appointment to

note and vice

versa

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ONENOTE AND OUTLOOK: TASKS

• Create tasks in OneNote

• Great for meeting action items

• They stay linked

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Completed

task

Outstanding

task

USE CASES

• Taking notes at meetings

• Organizing notes for reference questions, projects, presentations,

articles, etc.

• Organizing conference information

– Travel info

– Meeting info

– Notes from sessions – and can embed presentation slides,

handouts, etc. Scan paper handouts later and add.

• And a few suggestions for your personal life

– Home improvement projects – swatches, pictures, paint chips

– Recipes

– Vacation planning

– Tax information – scan receipts, keep notes throughout the year,

etc.

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COOL STUFF I DON’T HAVE TIME TO SHOW YOU TODAY

• Create and access notes with mobile apps

• Save notes in the cloud and access them anywhere

• Save to PDF

• Print documents and web pages to OneNote

• Record and insert audio and video

• Attach and embed documents

• Tag your notes

• Share your notebooks/collaborate with others

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FOR MORE INFORMATION

• Pinola, Melanie (2013). Seven tips and tricks to get more out of

OneNote. LifeHacker, http://lifehacker.com/seven-tips-and-tricks-to-

get-more-out-of-onenote-1447747936. This article covers some of

the cool features I don’t have time to cover here.

• Crum, J. (2014). Notes on your desk and in the cloud: comparing

Evernote and OneNote. Journal of the Medical Library Association

102(4): 306-308.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4188065/. Shameless

self-promotion but also compares both products, feature by feature.

• Lynda.com

– OneNote 2010 Essential Training

– OneNote 2013 Essential Training

• Tutorials on YouTube

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FRITZ SAYS… ANY QUESTIONS?