Moni's Musings

Adventures with OneNote

Today I used OneNote for the first time. I started to use Journal, but then Peter reminded me that I have OneNote as well, so I decided to give that a go. I was reading a book about Seattle and looking at the various school districts (hmm...wonder why I might be doing that?!) and decided that I wanted to write down some of the school district websites. I opened up OneNote and made a new category that I labeled "Job Stuff" and started writing the districts and their websites down. OneNote seems to be fairly easy to use so far. Unlike using the traditional pen and paper method, if I decide I need to enter notes above where I just wrote, I can actually insert additional writing space. That's cool. Anyone remember when they were in school and would take notes, and then last minute, the teacher would decide to tell you something additional to what you just wrote about? That seemed to happen to me all of the time. OneNote seems perfect for situations just like that.

Oh, and OneNote allows you to be creative too....I topped off my notes by highlighting in bright pink! (I know, I know, I'm girly)

Posted: Apr 13 2004, 08:07 PM by monica | with 2 comment(s)
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monica said:

You can do more than writing down their websites. If you surf to their websites you can drag and drop text from their site into OneNote and it'll automatically build the link for you - as well as paste in whatever you dragged and dropped.

I sometimes will just drag/drop the headline of a page into a OneNote page to create a nice bookmark to that site.

-B-
# April 16, 2004 7:26 PM

monica said:

Thanks for the idea! That's a really neat feature because I often find myself surfing to a multitude of sites that I might not be ready or have the time to look at, and I want to check it out later. I've just created a new tab of "Sites to Visit" in my OneNote for this purpose.
# April 16, 2004 8:53 PM