How to Use OneNote Effectively (Stay organized with little effort!)

Explore the power of OneNote for organizing your ideas, tasks, and information efficiently. This video offers practical tips and tricks to maximize OneNote's potential.

✨ Key Highlights:
▪️ Hierarchical Organization: Learn to structure your notes with notebooks, sections, and pages.
▪️ Create a system that mirrors your workflow for maximum efficiency.
▪️ Utilizing Tags: Tags help categorize and group notes across different notebooks or sections, making retrieval quick and easy.
▪️ Capture Ideas with Sticky Notes: Discover how to use Sticky Notes integrated into the OneNote mobile app to jot down thoughts on the go.
▪️ Extract Text from Images: Explore OneNote's OCR feature to extract and search text within images – a boon for research and data collection.
▪️ Immersive Reader for Focused Reading: Use the Immersive Reader to reduce visual clutter and enhance concentration when reviewing notes.
▪️ Additional Useful Features: Explore OneNote's additional capabilities like Ink to Shape, Ink to Text, and solving math problems directly within the app.

Most of us take notes in some way or another - on a piece of paper, in a notebook, or with some app. But are your notes always readily available when you need them? And more importantly, can you easily find a specific note you're looking for?

I tried a lot of note-taking systems in the past and I can't tell you how many great ideas were lost over the years because I just couldn't find the piece of paper anymore, I scribbled some notes on. It wasn't until I found a way to use Microsoft OneNote effectively that it changed for the better. Many people don't know that OneNote is much more than just a digital notebook.

In this OneNote tutorial, I explore how you can take full advantage of OneNote, and share my 5 personal OneNote tips and tricks on how you can become more organized.

00:00 Why Use OneNote
01:46 Use Hierarchies to Get Organized
04:37 Use Tags to Find What You Need
07:04 Capture Ideas Anywhere With Sticky Notes
08:23 Extract Text From Images
09:35 Focus With Immersive Reader
11:04 Additional features in OneNote you may find helpful (Ink to Shape, Ink to Text, Ink to Math)

You can download OneNote for free and and it's available for Windows and for Mac.

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[bala]

"Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them" Thanks for sharing this wonderful message.
Always followed your videos, helped me greatly. Cheers :)

[nyriagarcia]

This was THE BEST OneNote tutorial I have seen. It is incredibly helpful, and super easy to understand. You are a great teacher 💕 Thank You so so much!

[ms.udii.]

Omgosh Leila! This was timely and on point, just what i needed to get my head wrapped around how to effectively use OneNote across multi platforms to be more organized for school, work and life! You did an AMAZING job explaining everything!

[timesanity]

Long time One Note user, but obviously I've not put it to greatest use. I have about a dozen notebooks, and over 1000 pages, so I've been a fairly "prolific" user. Your overview is EXCELLENT! Can't wait to put more of the functions to good use! Thank you!

[bolivarbao]

I"ve never really given OneNote any thought until I purchased a Surface Go last year. It has now become my go-to note-taking app. One important feature I love is the ability to record audio while taking notes (i.e. during meetings) and then jumping to specific segments of the recording based on what I typed or written when I review these notes. Anyhow, great tutorial and great channel. Already subscribed.

[NoelSlevin]

This is the best rundown of OneNote I think I’ve seen. Really clear, really practical, and the pace is spot on.

[geraldslonaker]

Leila has to be one of the best if not THE BEST presenters or "tutors" on YouTube. Not only are her tutorials extremely well delivery is PERFECT! Leila...I can't help but wonder if you have a corporate consulting business and do that....on the side????

[ibrahemtaha]

Amazing video!
the are AMAZING!!!
direct, Simple, and to the point!
Please continue sharing more videos with us, Leila!

[dakotarecreates]

My favorite features are: being able to type and draw in a free space, being able to move and resize text and drawings and having a large amount of open space to zoom in and out from!

[alisonheslop]

Wow, this is great thanks, Leila. I haven't used One Note before because it looked confusing, But after watching your video it looks fantastic. Thanks for such a clear and easy way of explaining how to use it and what it is used for. I'll definitely give it a go as I have lots of projects on the go.

[aschadwell]

This is the best "quick" video that packs the most useful information! I've had a love/hate thing going on with OneNote for years and this eliminated the "hate" portion! Thank you!

[OlivierTuto]

Un immense merci depuis la Belgique pour tes vidéos extraordinaires. J’en regarde une chaque jour. Excellent!! Great job! Thanks!

[JasonMilner]

Thanks for the tips. I've used OneNote for years & wouldn't be without it now. One thing I would say is don't build too complex a hierarchical structure. I found I had several notes that could easily exist in more than one of my hierarchies & it was frustrating trying to decide where to file them. In the end I started creating a new notebook per year (just to keep the number of notes per book manageable), and use the excellent search feature to find what I want.

[davidroper]

Leila: You and your team, have an amazing ability to provoke ideas as well as those nuances of ideas. May I say thank you for redirecting me to ‘One Note’. A very pleasurable experience.

[PaulGarthAviation]

One GTD thought is within Tags. I can see where creating an "Agendas" tags for either a person (manager) or a group (team meeting) would work really well.

As you go through the week, in preparation for a meeting (with a person or a group), you create tags for applicable notes.

Then, when you have your meeting, you just click on tags and everything comes together.

This concept could also work for Waiting-For's for a person. You have information in OneNote that you're tracking, and the tag will find everything for the person you're waiting on.

[shuttleking]

You and your team are amazing! You explain in a simple way, contents of the videos are nicely organised and there’s a lot of effort you guys put in in each video. You are doing a great job! Thanks…

[Kate.Nkechi.O]

This just blew my mind! And it has just been spitting on my computer collecting dust! THANK YOU!!!

[FROGsPower]

Thank you so much for your tips and advice in this OneNote video. I have been using OneNote for about 6 years and, like many people, over time I was comfortable with the way my note system worked, so I just kept using it. After watching your presentation, I learned some tips for OneNote that I had never considered, and I'm looking forward to incorporating these new skills into my record-keeping both historically and going forward.
You have a wonderful teaching style that is very clear with details and easy to understand. I believe "we are never too old to learn" so I will now follow you to keep an open mind on my skills. Thanks again for the tips.
Stay safe as we end 2020 - wishing all who see this a Healthy, Happy New Year 2021.

[HansvanPutten]

Great vid! Have used OneNote for years for same reasons you mention but have drifted away from it recently. Saw this vid and after watching it am reinvigorated to use again. The new, at least for me, tips and tricks are compelling and push me to start using it again. So thank you!

[IvanferreroIt]

Using tags to group notes from different notebooks is a good tip.
Thank you!