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

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

1. OneNote - How and Where to Use It?
2. Exploring Screen Layout and Toolbars
3. Creating Notebooks, Sections, and Pages
4. Entering Information into Your Notebook
5. Best Practices for Creation and Easy Retrieval of Notes
6. Categorizing and Searching Notes
7. Organizing and Easily Working with Pages, Sections, and Notebooks
8. Adding Shapes, Videos, Web Pages, and More to Your Notes
9. Inserting Links and Attachments into Your Notebooks
10. Outlook and OneNote belong together
11. Using OneNote Online with OneDrive, SharePoint, or Teams
12. Printing and Sharing with OneNote
13. Making OneNote a Habit
14. Customizing OneNote Settings
15. Real Life Examples of OneNote Notebooks

With over 30 years of experience in computer software training, Connie Clark has taught and consulted with over 20,000 students. She helps to empower others and make them more productive with technology so they can achieve results. She's gained a reputation of teaching with patience and friendliness. She lives with her husband of 31 years and her two daughters on an acreage in Alberta. She likes to dance, but not exercise, always wanting things to be more fun and genuine. Check out her Mission Computers YouTube channel or reach out anytime by visiting her website.