Work Smarter with Microsoft OneNote: An expert guide to setting up OneNote notebooks to become more organized, efficient, and productive

by Connie Clark

Organize work and home life using notes from your phone or computer to supercharge your productivity with this OneNote manual

Key Features
Learn how to store notes that include images, audio, videos, links, files, emails, and web clippings
Unleash the magic of tags to make notes stand out and become more searchable
Discover the power of shared notebooks with your team or family to ensure everyone is in the loop
Book Description
Do you want to take your information and note organization to a new level? This book will show you how to use Microsoft's organizational app, OneNote, to store endless amounts of information in a productive and organized way, including solutions for creating your notes and then sharing them easily with your team or department.

You'll be guided through everything you need to set up a notebook and customize it to suit you or your team. The book will show you how to navigate through OneNote and search for virtually anything, as well as save time with all the shortcuts. You'll discover that inserting information into your notebooks goes far beyond text, images, and videos, and also includes emails, links to documents, and clippings from the web. But it doesn't stop there. Integration with other Microsoft products is key for making your experience successful, and this book demonstrates how to use OneNote with Microsoft Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams. Beyond instructions and essential topics, this book also provides you with the motivation you need to make OneNote a habit as well as real-life examples of notebooks you can use.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to use OneNote for everything and from every device. Even if you start a notebook on your laptop and continue it on your phone, you'll find working with the app seamless.

What you will learn
Understand how to create and organize notes in your notebooks
Discover how to turn handwritten notes into typed text
Explore how to access your content from anywhere even if offline
Uncover ways to collaborate with your team or family and stay in sync
Understand how to insert your emails, documents, or articles from the web
Find out how to integrate with other Microsoft products such as Outlook or Teams
Who this book is for
If you save notes on your phone, wear out more spiral notebooks than you can count, or if you're a Microsoft 365 user and need to keep track of information, then this book is for you. Beginner-level experience with OneNote is required to get the most out of this book.

Table of Contents
OneNote - How and Where to Use It?
Exploring Screen Layout and Toolbars
Creating Notebooks, Sections, and Pages
Entering Information into Your Notebook
Best Practices for Creation and Easy Retrieval of Notes
Categorizing and Searching Notes
Organizing and Easily Working with Pages, Sections, and Notebooks
Adding Shapes, Videos, Web Pages, and More to Your Notes
Inserting Links and Attachments into Your Notebooks
Outlook and OneNote belong together
Using OneNote Online with OneDrive, SharePoint, or Teams
Printing and Sharing with OneNote
Making OneNote a Habit
Customizing OneNote Settings
Real Life Examples of OneNote Notebooks

324 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 29, 2022

Reviews

[Michael Potter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Many people don't realize that in June of 2022, Microsoft OneNote received some massive changes. The majority of Microsoft 365 customers aren't aware of these amazing new features.
Change is the reason you need this book. You will you get a very easy to read reference for existing OneNote features and be ready for changes as they arrive over the next year.

The book is very detailed and simple enough to help you get more out of OneNote. I found myself finding new ways of customizing pages and sections to make it easier to read.

I especially appreciate how the author doesn't assume you are just an iphone user. In this book, you will get tips and tricks for Android users (which I am). This was particularly delightful to me.

I found the section on creating templates really helpful as I have not used them until now. You can expect to learn a great deal about OneNote from the author who has explored every possible feature.

Reading this book will save you time troubleshooting issues. I was having trouble on finding images within OneNote using the search feature. By taking a few extra seconds to add tags to photos, I found the searching to be immediate and accurate.

If you are looking for a OneNote reference guide to help you get the most out of the software and service, you won't be dissapointed in this book. I plan to buy future editions so that I can have this resource on my Kindle and computer.

[Richard Curtis · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent introduction to OneNote

This book is very well organized and written so that the complete novice can understand. I only wish that she wrote books on all aspects of computer use.

[Can Ozturk · Rating 5 out of 5]

useful stuff

I am a one note user but this book helped me use it in a much better way so that my notes are more useful.