How I Organize My Work and Life using MS OneNote 💪

In this video, I'll show you how I organize my work and personal life using OneNote. With over a decade of experience, I've streamlined my workflow using the PARA method by Tiago Forte.

I'll walk you through my structure, which includes separate notebooks for Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. You'll see how I manage active projects, maintain important areas, store reference materials, and archive completed work.

Whether you're new to OneNote or looking for a better organization system, this video is for you.

If you want to learn more about setting up PARA in OneNote, check out this video:

For a deeper understanding of the PARA method, make sure to check out Tiago Forte's books, linked in the description below. (NOTE: These are affiliate links. If you make a purchase using the below links, I earn a small commission from Amazon at no extra cost to you.)

⌛Time Stamp
00:00 - Start
00:27 - Notebook structure
00:54 - Project Notebook
01:54 - Areas Notebook
03:00 - Resources Notebook
03:55 - Archive Notebook
04:18 - Work Notebooks
05:37 - Capture Notes
07:16 - Search Notes
07:36 - Wrap up

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[Woobbled]

Thank you so much! I'm currently a senior in high school, and this has given me tons of inspiration on better ways to structure my notes. this will definitely improve my efficiency :)

[marie.s]

Great video. Thank you! Keep them tips & tricks coming. 🎉🎉

[irishaplus]

one note is super tool to organize and structure the work

[bitokay]

Hi Andy - Nice job as always . Came to give you a Like.

[RobC]

Thanks so much for your video! I am in the look of starting using PARA method and also buy a Supernote. Please Andy can you share how you export your supernote notes into OneNote? thanks in advance!

[phunt]

Love you give an example of how you would set up the gtd system in one notem

[sunnysb]

Hey Andy - Great Work. I just started reading about Tiago's second brain concept and enticed by it and have researched quite a lot, but come back to OneNote and Evernote as the go-to apps. I was interested in Readwise but seems expensive and also doesn't have any integrations with OneNote. Do you capture highlights from books/instapaper/pockets, etc.v into OneNote? If yes, would you if is there a similar automated way like Readwise is for evernote?

[tonymorris]

Thanks so much for this and your other videos! I just changed jobs/careers and new boss loves OneNote and suggested I give it a try. My question is how are you keeping your person and work separate or are you using them together and then if/when a new job comes along, you will transfer your personal notebooks to another account? Any info you can provide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks again for such great content. Definitely a new subscriber
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[thebeatles]

I always find myself crawling back to onenote after 20 yeras but some of my favorite old features are missing, like Linked Notes on web sites. Now they have Sticky Notes with kind of a similar feature... I still have to use the Windows 10 version for some features as well.

[jonnylontayao]

How much time do you estimate you’d spend daily / weekly keeping this all up to date and accurate?

[jasondumas]

Remember to apply some type of retention to the documents you're saving, especially if they're work-related.

[senrrui]

How to attach to a note (page) a certain date for review, delivery or finishing? How a reminder date can be assigned to a certain note? Does OneNote provide for this feature?

[Ligma]

Andrew do you use Onedrive for cloud storage alongside it? How did you implement that "frequesnt used files" section on top of the page?

[simonluthi]

Hi! Great videos about OneNote! In this one you quickly mentioned that you are using a supernote device? So am I, and I seem not to be able to get my handwritten notes from Supernote to OneNote so that they are searchable... I tried export as pdf and as png, as I read that OneNote should be able to read handwriting from images... How do you transfer your notes from supernote to OneNote?
Thank you very much for your response!

[ΑΝΤΩΝΗΣΒΟΛΙΩΤΗΣ]

And how do you keep a backup for all this? What if something gets blocked and deleted? I think a video like this would be helpful.

[bittertruth]

Thats a lot of work, how did you get that much of time to do that....i am really curious to know so, i could do that too

[Sheri...]

How can I find your video detailing the PARA method. Can you provide a link, please?

[tonyholland]

Which version of onenote are you using?

[yvesmenoud]

I do nearly the same, but for archive a do it by year

[jimgrant]

Good, clear video on your organizational structure.

I do not understand the distinction between the "Areas" and "Resources" folders. - - - If I create a new note, on what basis should I decide to put it in "Areas" or "Resources"?