There are too many things on the internet. And you need to save it somewhere.
The habit of filling a common book could be life altering. It could be a safe deposit for your own creative ideas or those of others. It could be a stash of online clippings you find or a cache of paperless receipts. It could be a place of learning or a place to go back and remember everything. Microsoft OneNote can be all this and more.
You can be a pack of information as you collect information, but you need to be more selective in discussing what you need to learn or research. As Napoleon Hill said,
How to Take Better Notes with OneNote 12 Tips for Taking Better Notes with Microsoft OneNote 12 Tips for Taking Better Notes with Microsoft OneNote These 12 tips show you how to take better notes in MIcrosoft OneNote. Today, digital note taking is as much about the skill as it is about the tool. Read More So, launch Microsoft OneNote and set up a notebook specific to the topic you're researching or learning.
Read-It-Later services like Pocket can be universal capture devices. Save anything in one click with the Pocket extension in your browser or mobile device. Although there is no official way to send your favorite links to OneNote from Pocket, you can fall back on a popular IFTTT recipe that takes care of that.
Instead of saving ALL Pocket Links to OneNote, use the recipe that adds “tagged” Pocket Links to OneNote.
While this recipe uses a specific "one note" tag, you can change it to any tag you like. I used "storytelling" to match the theme of the materials I'm collecting.
Click Add and review the recipe once to make sure IFTTT saves the articles to a specific OneNote page. That way you can configure other OneNote IFTTT recipes to automatically collect material from the web.
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RSS has been the biggest fishing net for capturing information we want to read. But often it is too much for everyone. A better way to combat information overload is to choose the best information from your sources and save it to OneNote.
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Click the OneNote icon at the top of the article you want to save. When you sign in to OneNote, the article is saved in your “Sticky Notes” notebook. You can create a new section, but it doesn't show already created notebooks as an option yet.
You can then move it to another notebook, edit it, annotate it, or share it. The easy one-click feature also works on the Feedly mobile app. OneNote is cross-platform, too.
Slow sync from OneNote Online to OneNote desktop is one of two aggravating hiccups. The second? The inability to save the article in a notebook of your choice.
The official OneNote Clipper Chrome extension is the solution to note taking laziness. On first use, sign in with the account you use with Microsoft. You can clip any part of a web page or the entire page, and file it into a specific notebook or section within it. Select a specific location because each capture creates a new page; therefore, an unchecked wave of cuts could create organizational chaos.
You can view the screenshot in OneNote Online or on the OneNote desktop. The next time you clip something, Clipper remembers the location and the clips in the same place. You can change the location at any time.
Try taking an image for which you need to scroll down. OneNote Clipper can capture the entire image and keep it as a single snapshot.
Alternative: There is also the third-party Send to OneNote Chrome extension. You can clip part of a web page or an entire page to OneNote from the right-click menu. It comes with three options:
I prefer OneNote's own tools. There are enough options to fit into your knowledge capture master plan.
It's easy to lose sight of this powerful desktop feature when we have a variety of options. On the desktop version, activate the screen cropper with Windows Key + SHIFT + S keyboard shortcut. The screen turns off and a “+” pointer floats on the screen ready for your next action. Click and drag to make any section. Right click to cancel.
The Select location in OneNote the dialog opens. You can send the screen clip to any page you want, or copy it to the clipboard to paste elsewhere.
Screen clippings can be a powerful tool when used with OneNote's Optical Character Recognition feature.
The old Charms Bar in Windows 8.1 has given way to a new way of sharing. In Windows 10, native apps now have an action bar. Look for the “hamburger icon” at the top of the screen, which includes the Share button. Click on that and the Windows 10 Share charm tab will slide in on the screen from the right. A faster way is to use the keyboard shortcut - Windows Key + H .
You can automatically save a screenshot to OneNote (the pre-installed Windows Store app and not the desktop version ). This can be synced with your OneNote 2016 desktop program.
Please read this Microsoft support page to understand the differences between OneNote and OneNote 2016.
When all else fails, OneNote's own tools are the best options. And because we all have different learning styles, OneNote gives you more than one way to capture it all.
If you're trying to capture a class note or practice a language, use the Record Audio feature.
Go to Ribbon> Insert> Record Audio . Once you've finished recording, click Stop .
Note: OneNote Online supports audio recording in Edge, Chrome, and Firefox.
All those wonderful YouTube video learning resources How to Set Up YouTube for Better Learning How to Set Up YouTube for Better Learning If you're not using YouTube to stretch your mind and learn new skills, it's time to catch up. There is a lot of free knowledge available out there. Why not take advantage of it? Read More We had talked about the usefulness of Video Notes earlier. Start taking notes along with saved videos and even engage others in collaborative learning sessions.
Use the Online Video to insert content from YouTube, Vimeo, and Office Mix into your OneNote notebooks.
Go to the Ribbon> Insert> Online Video . In the next dialog, paste the URL of your YouTube, Vimeo, or Office Mix video, and then click OK .
Take notes next to the videos and complement the information with other sources..
Note: OneNote Online doesn't yet support embedding online videos. Microsoft says it's an expected feature.
Where do you keep all that knowledge? Locked in PDF files? Inside a folder? Why not insert and link your OneNote pages where they're needed most?
You can store PowerPoint slides and PDF notes along with other formats with your notes. This gives you a faster way to refer to them instead of rummaging through the dark attic of your computer. Also, attachments are stored as part of their associated notebook. If you move a notebook to another location, any inserted files will be moved with the notebook.
Go to the Ribbon> Insert> Attachment.
If you want to keep the original format, insert a Printed file place an image of its contents on a page in OneNote. They work just like regular images:you can't edit the file. You can resize them, draw them to annotate them, and move them anywhere.
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Clippings.io has been a favorite for pulling summaries from Kindle and keeping them organized somewhere. OneNote is something I'm experimenting with to collect the information needed for a topic I'm learning. Clippings.io works perfectly with Evernote, but OneNote is out of luck for an effortless export.
Fortunately, you can export your Kindle highlights in other formats and save them to the theme-specific file. It's just one more step.
Or you can use the old way.
Sign in to your Amazon Kindle page. Click on Your books at the top of the page.
Go to Your Highlights . Navigate to the book whose highlights you want to capture in OneNote.
You now have three options:You can copy and paste highlights into OneNote, which is cleaner. You can use OneNote to take a screen clipping. Or you can use the Send to OneNote printer driver to print the page to OneNote.
Microsoft OneNote can be used to quickly take Post-It-style notes, even if the OneNote desktop program isn't open. You can use it to capture random thoughts from a book you're reading or a creative idea you might want to come back to later.
press the Windows Key + N keyboard shortcut key and write your note in the small note window. To open additional Sticky Notes after running OneNote, press Windows Key + ALT + N on your keyboard.
Look at all the notes saved in the Sticky Notes section of your notebook. You can then file them in other parts of your notebooks or save them there. To move a page, right click on the page tab, choose Move or Copy , and follow the prompts.
There is a lot of information beyond the click and understanding of your computer or browser. The treasure trove of riches in your public library, for example. Dig up books on the subject you're trying to master. Also, paper notes, whiteboards, class notes, or a newspaper article.
The office lens “pocket scanner” is one of the best ways to take notes with OneNote in such situations. One-click capture and take advantage of OneNote's OCR features to organize your scan information in your notes.
Office Lens is available for Windows Phone, Android, and iOS.
The purpose of any of these methods is to collect. But the task of collecting knowledge is too big to leave it in a single tool. A combination of methods is needed to collect and organize the information in an orderly way.
OneNote gives you an organizational structure with notebooks, sections, and pages. It behaves like a physical notebook on steroids. You can set up OneNote templates to take notes more efficiently How to use OneNote templates to be more organized How to use OneNote templates to be more organized OneNote is a great way to keep your ideas organized, and templates can make the process easier. even easier. Learn how to use, edit and create your own templates with this guide. Read more.
For example, you can collect things around a custom lesson plan template. You can make a shared notebook for collective learning. You can put it all together in one training resource kit for yourself and others on your team.
You can use the Feynman technique to explain things to yourself and fill in learning gaps. While you're at it, use the Record Video Button to see yourself explain a concept on the screen. Record and embed audio to guide lessons. You can mark specific notes with review tags.
It might not be a bad idea to take another page out of Richard Feynman. “Notebook method” and break down the complicated to the simple..
As my friend Rob explained using the example of Charles Darwin, there's a lot we can do to improve our note-taking skills How to use OneNote like a world famous scientist How to use OneNote like a world famous scientist Charles Darwin would have loved OneNote . He was an avid note taker who recorded everything he observed. Here's how he could have used OneNote to organize his work and further his research. Read more . There is no magic in it. Just a lot of discipline and good note-taking habits.
How does Microsoft OneNote use as an information collector in this age of data? What is the save feature in OneNote that you use above all else? Do you have a special method or routine that we can all learn from?
