Experts' Guide to OneNote

Jeremy P. Jones

Mar 2022 · Jeremy P. Jones

About this ebook

OneNote is a popular and proven note-taking tool available on many platforms. This book shows you how expert users have leveraged OneNote in incredibly productive workflows - from professionals who rely on OneNote for digital planning, to college students who leverage OneNote's unique abilities on a Mac and an iPad for note-taking and sense-making to stay on top of their work.

In this book, you will learn how to:

• visually plan out your day with a handwritten journal, and powered up with digital hyperlinks and file attachments;

• structure your notes using notebooks, sections, and pages in OneNote, and thereby retrieving your notes with ease when needed;

• make masterful, comprehensive notes for college bringing together content from your textbooks, lecture notes, and personal insights to make colorful and memorable study materials;

• tap into the tables-in-tables feature in OneNote to structure your notes with clarity and precision;

• leverage the large digital whiteboard built into every OneNote page to lay out your reference materials visually while making meaning emerge through hand-drawn connections as an overlay; and

• employ novel features in OneNote such as inline arithmetic, wiki syntax for automatic page links, immersive reader with built-in translation of foreign text, and custom tags for precision search across all your OneNote notebooks.

This author also presents a suite of rich workflows of his own in the companion book "OneNote Recipes Elegant Techniques for Problem Solving and Visual Thinking", published in 2021.

About the author

Jeremy Jones is an avid enthusiast of macOS and iOS apps focused on productivity.