How I Manage ALL my Research in OneNote | Life-changing tool for researchers

How to use OneNote to take notes, plan experiments/studies, record results and thoughts, and write up your research as a thesis or report. This video covers everything you need to know about research organization as a PhD student or researcher, whether you do experiments or data analysis. OneNote can revolutionize the way you organize, plan, and document your research journey. In this video, I'll walk you through the essential features and strategies that make OneNote the ultimate tool for managing your digital lab notebook, acting as your daily driver, organizing your research materials, planning your experiments, and even writing up your thesis or papers.
📚 Lab Notebook: Discover how to transform OneNote into your digital lab notebook, replacing traditional pen and paper. Capture experimental details, observations, procedures, and even attach multimedia files for comprehensive documentation. With OneNote's powerful search functionality, find crucial information in seconds, never losing track of your valuable research.
🚀 Daily Driver: Learn how to integrate OneNote seamlessly into your daily routine as a researcher. From note-taking during lectures, seminars, or conferences to jotting down spontaneous ideas, thoughts, and inspirations, OneNote becomes your trusty companion. Sync across devices to access your notes anywhere, anytime, and never miss a beat.
🗂️ Research Organization: Explore advanced strategies for organizing your research materials efficiently using OneNote's hierarchical notebook structure, section groups, and pages. Create dedicated sections for literature reviews, data analysis, experimental setups, and more. Utilize tags, labels, and highlighting to categorize and prioritize information, ensuring easy retrieval at a later stage.
📝 Research Planning: Discover how OneNote can assist you in planning your research projects effectively. Utilize templates for research proposals, project timelines, and to-do lists. Collaborate with peers and supervisors by sharing notebooks and co-authoring pages. Leverage OneNote's integration with other Microsoft Office tools to seamlessly link and embed relevant documents.
🎓 Thesis and Paper Writing: Learn how OneNote can streamline the process of writing your thesis, dissertations, or scientific papers. Utilize its powerful outlining features to structure your work, maintain references and citations, and keep track of your progress. Effortlessly incorporate multimedia content, such as charts, images, and tables, to enhance the visual appeal of your work.
Unlock the full potential of Microsoft OneNote and take your research productivity to the next level. Join us in this video as we demonstrate tips, tricks, and best practices for using OneNote as a researcher. Stay organized, stay focused, and achieve remarkable results in your academic pursuits.
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[@muhammadislam2779]

Excellent explanation with awesome detailed note. Thanks in millions

[@meghnaaaaaaa0.0]

Would love to see a video where you explain how you organize these notes into those sections and folders. I often get very confused about that.

[@jrwebb10]

I LOVE that I stumbled upon this channel! Sooo helpful in my MSW program!!! Thank you!

[@martindavies8153]

Many thanks. Excellent summary and introduction in using OneNote.

[@paulmasters5143]

Many thanks. I will now double down on my use of OneNote!

[@SuperSwaggaboiz]

Thank you so so much. Just the right app I am looking for to stay organized with my work.

[@adisaakintola]

Thank you so much for this post. This is just what I needed to see about a top-grade notetaking app I already own!!

[@sweetyamratlal]

hi thank you so much for this video! ive been using onenote for the past few years and its been a lifesaver!

[@shahriarshaon9418]

I am a massive fan of OneNote and using it for literally everything. Taking notes to mail professors and saving videos to watch later and what not. I didn't know about this printing feature. Thanks a ton🥰

[@fatimazahrae3149]

I've been using OneNote from time to time for years now, and I didn't know 70% of the things you mentioned in your video. Thank you so much !!

[@ritaseumanutafapalala]

Love the scarf!!

[@hectorrenemelendez]

Thank you so much for sharing your research organization workflow.

[@sabicapardesi642]

I gave up on onenote long time ago but this is so informative and makes me want to get it again. 6:48 Funny moment 😂 love your energy and style.

[@7GoP]

Thank you - this is helpful!

[@kangkanabarman3459]

Very useful information for PhD students like us. Thank you🤗.

[@alik3423]

You rock! Greetings from Turkiye...

[@TheMISBlog]

Very useful, thanks hira, I was using onenote for everything, but now I swicthed to Notion and Obsidian

[@engr.isahusman]

I'm so impressed!

[@SarimAshrafi]

OneNote is such an underrated tool. It's one of the best if not the best note taking app. Been using it since 2014 when it came bundled with my Windows Phone. So, couldn't think of using anything else since then.

[@salvadorrea8048]

You literally saved me so many hours of research in how to use Onenote. And here I thought Goodnotes was the king of notetaking. Grad school here I come.

[@Pawandeepkaur]

I am a postdoc and now realise why I did not this hack of using one note with my literature organization. Thanks dear

[@crispywaffle8832]

This video was exactly what I needed. I was not completely sure about using my laptop to take notes because I was not sure how I would even begin. I am so used to using paper notebooks for all of my college classes and OneNote just seems so inviting. Easy to use for the casual user yet it has so many more useful features if you know what you're aiming for.

[@crispywaffle8832]

OMG I just discovered that you can link Excel sheets to OneNote, too. I can link my datasheets, graphs, tables- all of it. This is amazing.

[@tehreemali5065]

Thanks alot for sharing this.. you just saved me girl. keep going..

[@sequoiasaxophone]

So I guess I will use OneNote for my PhD reading😅 thank you, the video was very informative

[@yukiwang5825]

Thank you!!

[@coffee_394]

Thank you!

[@TheoneandonlyRAH]

This is magic!

[@shahriarshaon9418]

Can you please make a video on taking notes while you’re class. Like how do you take class notes. I would really appreciate if you do som i found your videos really life saving.❤

[@6Ligma]

Hiraaaaaaaaa, I like your energyyyyyyyyyy. ...and yes I have Onenote, and I'm using it to research my dissertation (applied mathematics). You got yourself a new subscriber >_

[@oxford_phd]

Hahaha welcome to the channel!

[@basitakram]

Amazing Video, Hira!. The problem with OneNote is that it is not as polished for Mac and iPhone as compared with Windows and Android.

[@bestlife4894]

Thank you so much. Very informative, please if you can one on research methodologie of Master will be great.

[@simonsun02]

I tried so many note taking apps, and I really like your recommendation, I am using mac but microsoft really do a great job on macos and ios. HAHA, Apple never want to do good thing on windows. OneNote maybe not beautiful as it looks, but for the function and information, it works the best.

[@javaidsaeed6900]

❤ excellent

[@olsenjarvis4059]

Salam sister. This was a great video. I am using one note for my masters and love it too. I have been thinking of making a video too. Inshallah one day.

[@akkhan1234]

Its very helpful to me. I request for a video about " How to organize materials for writing a research article in Bio-Statistics?"

[@user-lv2bm2rt6v]

youre amazing

[@joepardue5044]

I am just starting a graduate program and I believe that your videos are going to save me a ton of time. Thank you so much - you are contributing to the betterment of the world.

[@oxford_phd]

Thanks for the kind comment and I'm so glad my videos help! If you have any video requests let me know! :)

[@joepardue5044]

It seems to me that AI has literally exploded in academic research. I would be interested in sorting the useful tools from the lesser tools. Also, I would be interested in the ethical discussions about using AI tools in academia. Thanks again. @@oxford_phd

[@rickywang4259]

Oh my god I love you😁

[@mondelwane8592]

Miss Hira, thank you for your wonderful advice, OneNote will now be my app of choice for my research. I will use it for my masters research and God willing PhD. I must ask though why you prefer a touchpad over an IPad, and why an Ipad would not be ideal or in terms of functionality, they are all the same, its just a personal prefrence?

[@oxford_phd]

OneNote experience is generally nicer on Windows tablets than ipad :) I also like that the tablet is a mini computer with all the desktop apps you want which isn't the case with ipad. So you get more bang for your buck if you buy a Windows tablet

[@chattySam00]

Very helpful. please create moe one note related videos. I prefer Onenote compare to Notion.

[@marthawood7069]

subscribe just because of your apple comment, lol. Please let me know which Microsoft product you use. I love it. Thanks so much for a wonderful informative video.

[@oxford_phd]

Haha! Welcome onboard! :) I use the Surface Go laptop and all my devices are in Windows :) I still use Word to write my theses and papers, PowerPoint for my presentations and graphics, Excel for the references file I mentioned in a different video, OneDrive for all my storage and cloud backups of my theses, and of course my favourite thing ever is OneNote!! :D

[@Rajgitaa]

Thanks for this video. How do you use two sides of the screen, one side for the copied data and the other for your own personal writing? Does OneNote allow you to separate the page in two, like two columns? I tried to figure it out but everything was moving so fast I couldn't tell how you did that. Thank you. Roger

[@oxford_phd]

Hi, you can click anywhere and it will let you type wherever you want on the page. That's the beauty of Onenote

[@MrMattwood1987]

Hi Hira, Thank you so much for your video, this is exactly what I was looking for. I have downloaded one note now, however I'm struggling to get the layout to look like your one. Can you please advise how you removed all the one note ribbons etc, so it shows just the notebook page that I'm working on and a little icon of the Notebook in the top right corner. When you click the notebooks on the top right corner your notebooks appear like timestamp 1:39. On my display all the notebooks are showing on the right and all the ribbons are at the top

[@oxford_phd]

Hi, so glad you found this useful! To get that layout, click the full screen arrows on the top right of the one note screen. That should do the trick!

[@davideldredge5697]

I would love to see a video about paper lab notebooks for Freshman chemistry. Do you have any of your lab notebooks you could share? Our college is not allowing for digital lab notebooks presently, but that might change one day. So, we have to work hard to motivate students to do pen and paper. (Many have a hard time with penmanship too!)

[@oxford_phd]

I'm sorry I've never had a paper lab notebook when doing my own research projects! When I did they were horribly un-updated and hard to navigate through so I'm not sure I have any advice on that. I think you should push hard the other way around though - pushing college to allow digital instead! I've not heard this before, it is so strange!

[@anwarsh3568]

Please can yo make a video for refreance manger ? How do you organize

[@oxford_phd]

Great idea! I'll add it to my video ideas, thank you for the suggestion!

[@user-jt6rf5hg8m]

🎉

[@rasmusrosenborg8078]

How do you copy the text out from the pdf's that you have inserted as a print out? Like just copying the tile and sub headings for a keyword list should be possible? But you can't select the text as the hole page is a picture.. It really bugs me how you can't save a pdf to a common place then insert it in to one note, and do the rest there. If it have to annotate it (one note) don't annotate the pdf but just writes over the image inside onenote, so if i open the pdf in other program or share it the annotations are not there. If i annotate the pdf in a pdf program, after i have inserted it as a print out, onenote can't update the print out if changes are made in the original file. So you have to delete the hole pdf insert in onenote and re insert it... That means there are multiple version of the same pdf that your have to keep track on and that is an insane friction.

[@oxford_phd]

Ah I see your frustration! The reason it hasn't been an issue for me is because I do everything on OneNote so I don't need to actually annotate the pdf file itself or use different programmes for pdf annotation. A few thoughts on how you get around some of the issues: 1. To copy the title and sub-headings you can right-click and "copy text from picture" as OneNote has a built-in image to text feature 2. To share your annotations with others, you can go to File > Export and export the page as a pdf document to send to others. 3. You're also able to insert files as attachments on a OneNote page. Insert > File attachment > Insert as attachment. However, using this you won't be able to annotate in OneNote directly as it's just attaching the file, nothing more, but it will save and automatically update any changes you make on the pdf when you open it from OneNote. I don't think there's a perfect work-around for your needs if you want to use other programmes to annotate. But I hope some of this is useful.

[@ryanagar7498]

I think alot of youtubers must be sponsored by other platforms. One note is the epitome of K.I.S.S. Even if you use another app for notes you can paste them there. The horizontal infinite pages is unbeatable for annotating slides and PDFs and I'm not sure any other applications really allow for this?

[@csml4519]

How do you add pdf or note ?? I can even copy note from pdf to one note . I just add the whole pdf into onenote . Mine don't look like your page! Are you using any pdf copying apps

[@oxford_phd]

You can drag your pdf onto OneNote and drop onto a page and click "insert as printout". Or you can open the pdf with any reader, click print, and click on Microsoft OneNote when choosing printers. Hope that works!

[@KelliePixieAshton]

I'm trying to do the "print to Onenote" thing but it's not working (Apple user here.... sorry, don't hate me)

[@oxford_phd]

Hahaha! I have confessions to make on this channel, I was given a mac work laptop so I like it. AND I use notion too now :') If the print to one note doesn't work maybe go into one note, create a new page, and see if you can attach file > choose file > attach as printout?

[@johannesmarquart7375]

Hey first create Video, why did u stop making them ? Please, I need this as soon as possible because I'm adapting your workflow for my bachelor thesis. 1. I'm getting confused about some aspects of your workflow. Regarding the PDF in OneNote: First, you mention printing it out to check. Then, you suggest that you copy and paste the passages you need. However, I'm unclear on where you're copying these passages from. Obviously, we can't copy from OneNote because the PDF is an image. Do you take a screenshot, or do you go back to the original website to copy the text? So back and Forth? 2. When you read an article and write it down in Excel, I get it. But do you have a separate folder or Excel table for each subject or project? For instance, for a Master's thesis or a project on wind energy? 3. Third, let's say we've gathered 10 references or articles; therefore, there are 10 pages that may constitute one paragraph or 1 chapter. We note it down in Excel. Got it. In OneNote, we create a new page, insert the title and link, and then print it out. And let's say we rewrite using a slow method, with the title at the end. Okay. Then you create one more page, let's call it "Writing Chapter 1." How you showed us: Do you copy pasty from the 10 article to the one side like Manuelly Referenace 1 Copy - to Writing Chapter 1 paste ? And then left side and then start to write paragraphs or content on the right side? Is this your workflow? Sometimes you have Full article some times Parts. Thank you very much

[@fridaa.l.2191]

:)

[@video-adam]

I think we just watched an Onenote advert.

[@oxford_phd]

Haha I wish Microsoft hired me! But for now I'm just doing free adverts for them cause I love OneNote so much! :D