misc: cool things about onenote

onenote has been my constant companion for many years now. between onenote and outlook, i can’t think of very many things that can’t be effectively managed, tasked, or tracked -- at least from a day-to-day perspective. i found some pretty cool things about onenote recently that i thought i’d share: subpages and onetastic.

 

SUBPAGES

for those of that don’t know, i’m an avid pool player. naturally, since i use onenote, i’m a pool player that likes to keep a lot of notes about billiards as you can see in the screenshot.

the first thing i want to point out is onenote allows the use of subpages. i went for far too long without knowing that. if you look at #1, you can see how onenote looks when you collapse subpages. #2 is the expanded view.

once you collect your pages as subpages, it makes managing them easier since you can work with them in bulk (move, copy, delete, cut, etc.)

to create a subpage, right-click the page tab and choose make subpage. the shortcut trick to make or promote a subpage is to drag the page tab left or right with your mouse as shown below.

http://screencast.com/t/l5mpZ4vy

 

ONETASTIC

i stumbled on this gem while i was looking for a tool to apply styles like you can in pretty much every other office product. enter onetastic. onetastic for microsoft onenote is an amazing collection of tools that integrate directly with onenote. since most of the tools are macros, it’s as extensible as you want to make it. so far, i’ve found that their collection of macros is more than enough for me.

if you’re a heavy onenote user, it’s definitely worth checking. i found all kinds of other cool macros like sorting pages, creating a table of content, search & highlight, etc.

 

 

BONUS

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