5 OneNote Tips You'll Wish You Knew Sooner

[@LeilaGharani]

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[@johnsarris5478]

A powerful tool no one talks about is OneNote's ability to index audio. In a meeting or presentation, you can click Insert and then record. OneNote will record and index the presentation. If you take notes you can indicated the spoken phrase and then later do a search for that phrase and the recording will go right to it.

[@michcard1957]

Leila, I'm awe-struck by the quality level of your video tutorials. You have a deep sense of teaching. I've produced some internal tutorials at the company I work for and I can appreciate the amount of efforts it requires. Your attention to details is truly impressive. There's not a single word out of scope, no repetition, neat examples and your speech sounds absolutely natural (with a discrete and classy touch of charm on top). Are you doing all this by yourself our do you get the help of a team?

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you! I'm fortunate to have a great team.

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[@rebeccaw9656]

As a mature aged student starting a new under grad degree this year, there wasn’t a lot of information on OneNote that wasn’t exclusively business oriented, and I had to learn by doing. I’m so glad I found your site, I have learnt so many new things to enhance what I’m already doing, which is basically the keeper of all my course notes and research. We get the office 365 suite free from my university, and it’s been invaluable to sync across my devices, a windows laptop and an iPad. My degree is heavy on academic reading, so I ‘drag and drop’ downloaded PDF’s to reading mode directly into OneNote pages (setting up folder, section and page system beforehand is important, one PDF per page). This syncs directly to my iPad, which I do most of my reading on, via a comfy chair. Clicking on Draw, selecting highlighting tool, I use my Apple Pencil to highlight and pen to hand write notes (a finger works just as well). This then syncs to my laptop. When writing assignments via Word, it’s easy to refer to highlighted notes - enabling me to go completely paperless.

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks for your feedback Rebecca!

[@mimistar1427]

Another get tool in OneNote for taking minutes is the audio recording function...With the permission of the meeting attendees you can record the meeting and type notes at the same time. When you are finish the recording play links are created that correspond to the notes your typed. This allows you to skip to a specific part of the recording regarding the note you made, to hear what was discussed. I love it.

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks for your tip!

[@AhmedRaof]

I am a subscriber for some time now, it helps me a lot in Excel, Powerpoint and it made me a believer in OneNote in a previous video when Leila showed how she uses it, the only thing I honestly don't understand is why this valuable channel has only half a million subscribers ?! it is a hidden gem, thanks Leila for all your help

[@siryoneyal]

I use OneNote for managing thing at work and also keep notes regarding my stuff. I have locked the stuff notes since it is personal information. Really like it. I have noticed that you go to the lock icon each time when actually all you have to do is press 'enter' key and type in the password. That easy.

[@LeilaGharani]

Great tip!

[@rfrancoi]

WOW!!! Thank you again. Just watched other "Tips". Really helpful.

[@dennisdiener2730]

Leila, I used OneNote as a way to share project files with my team who were spread across the US, (we managed over 150 locations of our companies real estate and office space design projects for a large engineering and architectural firm). We placed the OneNote file on a SharePoint site and set up each office design project with a Notebook template in OneNote and set up templates sections and pages which were laid out the same for each project. This allowed everyone to have access to the most current information on the project and know where it is located (if the team members uploaded it of course). It is a very powerful tool for keeping everything organized, and even expandable to multiple people using other Microsoft applications. Thanks for all of your learning videos they are very clear and informative.

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks for your feedback, Dennis!

[@dennisbruce6610]

Outstanding. I keep telling everyone I know about your tutorials and videos. Best Relatable teacher out there ! Thanks again

[@vijayarjunwadkar]

Perfect! With Leila on our side, we can Unlock Power of Anything! Thanks again for another helpful video! :-)

[@gailjurczyk]

I use an alternate method to distribute meeting notes. (I meet with many teams and don't want to manage permissions to my OneNote.) Instead, I take notes as Leila describes. To send, in OneNote select File --> Send --> Email page. I delete the link to my OneNote page that is at the top of the message as a default and send the rest! (I also the link and dial-in details for the original meeting, which appear as default). So easy!

[@RonakDhakan]

If you want to save the full web page, just save the page from the browser as html only or full web page. If you want to preserve the formatting, get an extension like 'Single File' which will save the whole web page as a single file and preserve the formatting.

[@MysticNessly]

I use the shortcuts to specific pages and add to my phones screen all the time. Shopping, to do lists, recipes. Love it

[@tomc7018]

I would too - but I like to use google home - shopping list, and in that case I just tell google to make a list (any list) and then tell it to add things to it

[@juliodinocharles5661]

You have set a gold standard for tutorial video

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you liked it, Julio!

[@andreagroen27]

That meeting details is a game changer for me and my note taking. THANK YOU!

[@dolf1n1]

Thank for summarising all of the tips into a short concise video it’s just perfect 👍

[@whmills02]

OneNote is the best app Microsoft ever created! I have used it since its intro and much of the last 10+ years of my life is documented in those notebooks but it is always great to hear another users view and application. To have meeting minutes in attendee hands before they have opened their laptop after leaving the meeting is nirvana! Thank you Leila. You are certainly pretty wonderful in your delivery and knowledge.

[@mattschoular8844]

Thanks for sharing Leila, I dont currently use One Note but I may go back and watch you first One Note video before I start exploring the possibilities further...

[@LeilaGharani]

In the first video we cover the hierarchies, so that will be a good start.

[@konstantindellas5318]

Thanx a lot Leila for sharing your knowledge, i have tried to learn as much as possible about One Note , To Do and Outlook (They are such a good programs in my work ) and you have given me a very big help on the way.

[@ThomsenTower]

The Web Clipper is also very useful with context menu (mouse right click). This way I use it to save only selected text, or pictures, not the whole article. Thanks for your videos!

[@LeilaGharani]

Great tip! Thanks for sharing.

[@ChristophMichels]

Sehr geehrte Frau Gharani, im Zusammenhang der Umstellung auf OneNote bin ich bei meiner Recherche auf youtube auf Ihre Videoschulungen gestoßen. Ganz herzlichen Dank dafür, Ihnen und Ihrem ganzen Team "dahinter". Ihre Art zu unterrichten ist erstklassig in Form und Inhalt, d.h. sehr gut vorbereitet und erfrischend präsentiert. Betrieblich bin ich in Sachen Qualitätssteuerung unterwegs und schätze gute Arbeit sehr. Sie haben mir in kürzester Zeit mein Wissen über OneNote aktualisiert - wunderbar! Viele Grüße aus dem Spessart (zwischen Frankfurt & Würzburg, D), Ihr Christoph Michels

[@normaneddawatt9359]

wow! I don't think i can remember all that explaining. it's worth learning! thanks!

[@fredg1251]

the 2 onenote sessions have been incredibly helpful! thank you!

[@companyboss5447]

This lady's work is excellent.

[@vigneshraju8271]

Thanks for sharing these tips Leila. Really useful tips. I'm a regular user for one note and there are lot of hidden features. Thanks once again for sharing 👍

[@LeilaGharani]

You're so welcome!

[@benjijmason]

Just started using one note. Very useful tips. Thank you!

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad it's helpful, Benjamin!

[@davegoodo3603]

Interesting the move to OneNote Leila, I'm sure you'll do as good a job with OneNote as you do with Excel.

[@maureenhuertas9264]

I’m just learning OneNote (as of 9/11/23). Really need a quick and simple tutorial. Hopefully I’m in the right place ❤

[@munirjahanyar3363]

thanks, it was really useful for me and my project to use OneNote in proper way.

[@FarhanMerchant]

Very helpful tips particularly web clipper & hyperlink, this makes life easy Your explanation simplifies & i get hands on immediately

[@CtrlPlusLearn]

Love how you connect with your subscribers ❤️ Great content !

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you!!

[@isaijimenez5639]

Thank you! I watched both your videos and learned a lot. Linking sections is extremely useful.

[@LeilaGharani]

Great to hear!

[@nadeemmalik8031]

Perfect One Note Tutorial.

[@mcd22630]

Well now I'm convinced that next time I buy a computer I'm switching from Apple. Thanks to everyone who contributed the ideas that made this video possible. Plus a shout out to Skill Share. #OneNote #Microsoft #xelplus #Skillshare

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you for your support!

[@Midalias25]

I have a Mac for work and Outlook and OneNote has less features than in Windows. It’s really annoying.

[@santiago2950]

Thank you for choosing windows! You are the best.

[@goldenart0307]

Useful tips! Thank you Leila!

[@LeilaGharani]

You're so welcome!

[@theroadsitravel6861]

I love and use your videos all the time. Thank you!

[@eliascosculluela8627]

You are awesome! Thanks for all your support and effort! Thank you! :D

[@MichaelGoldner]

Thank you for the tips! For me the links were most useful.

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad it was helpful!

[@WaleSANNI]

Very good tips here. Linking between notebooks, sections & pages is very useful.

[@Fsp01]

The meeting notes part blew my mind

[@wayneedmondson1065]

Hi Leila. Thanks for the great tips on OneNote. Always a pleasure to watch your videos. Thumbs up!!

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you, Wayne!

[@drdberry67]

Hi Leila, I discovered recently your tutorials on KZbin. They are so helpful in my line of work. Thank you for your organization and helpful tips for the Microsoft Apps.

[@LeilaGharani]

You are so welcome!

[@byteZorvin]

best video onenote, absolutely loved it. Thanks for sharing.

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@FWWeitzel]

TOP 4 Link to paragraph was new for me. Thank you. Very helpful

[@kolavithonduraski5031]

this links are mindblowing...👍

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you found something useful.

[@anthonysais2580]

These were very effective tips, thank you so much. I also always enjoy your teaching tips in Excel.

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad to hear that, Anthony!

[@chaugulepankaj]

Didn't know about the sharing meeting notes. Great 👍🏻 Thanks.

[@dansoben8431]

Great!! I just realized there's a recording feature to it too!!!

[@MissCheva]

I think you are amazing Leila. A great teacher. Thankyou

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you! 😃

[@raedrsraedrs]

wonderful, i really enjoyed you have a good, clear and enjoyable method to present information. thank you

[@krn14242]

All great tips Leila. I just created a protected login onenote. :)

[@LeilaGharani]

Wonderful!

[@space_guy_04]

After implementing one note on our department our efficiency and task delgation became more efficient and transparent

[@DougHExcel]

One is is indeed a useful tool, thanks for the video!

[@LeilaGharani]

You are welcome, Doug!

[@sprintmiles]

My absolute favorite feature is the ability to add links to paragraphs from other sections.

[@LeilaGharani]

These hyperlinks are really convenient :)

[@jimdery2920]

Fantastic, very professionally presented content

[@paulbany6603]

Thank you for sharing this inspiring and informative video. I have always been looking for a skillful technique that would help me putting my messy notes together for an easy access whenever I need them.

[@LeilaGharani]

You are so welcome, Paul!

[@chriss4739]

I would love to hear your explanation of the different options when inserting a file into onenote. Ive been using onenote for years and your lessons have refined my skills. When I meet coworkers that don't know about it I send them to your channel.

[@Prakashpalanisamy.TN78]

I'm new subscriber from India (TamilNadu)🇮🇳

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad to have you onboard!

[@hollygatto3812]

Glad I found this video. I wanted to be able to highlight and make notes from a webpage in OneNote. Google Drive works but it can not what I found OneNote and WebClipper can do. I subscribed to find our more on how I can utilize OneNote for content creation. The bonus with OneNote is that it is synced with my PC, my laptop and the Samsung 360 Pro that I preordered. Samsung is doing some great partnering with MS. Thank you for the video!

[@LeilaGharani]

Our pleasure!

[@MustaphaBouhamidi]

Thank you Leila

[@santisiritheerajesd4018]

Very useful tips. Thank you very much.

[@ricardowong1813]

Thanks you have teach me a lot of tips🎉

[@discovermore1]

Fantastic work. We like your briefing style.

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@eugwong]

Wow. So many new features i didn't know about thanks

[@LeilaGharani]

Hope they'll come in handy for you, Eugene.

[@danielcervantes6418]

I love you!!! Thank you for showing me this!!

[@KP-ky1sn]

OneNote is just awesome to use and almost on par with excel regarding usefulness and value. Over the period I've been using Onenote i kept wondering why the password protect function was absent, or so I thought. I didn't realize that sections could be password protected and so I'm once again grateful for this video for highlighting that. Pity that the password protect function couldn't be standardizing across Microsoft programs though. that really would have been even more awesome. Excellent content, as usual, thank you.

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad it was useful, Peter.

[@nevillejames2200]

Great content. Thank you

[@techhelptostudy]

Thank you to give hidden tricks

[@benjiman2024]

Brilliant as always. Keep it up

[@mkumar4018]

Hi Leila, absolutely love the way you teach! Clearly a MVP all the way . The earlier video and this one are both fantastic and I am just getting started. okay here's a quick question - when I used the One Note (windows 10) functionality to email notes, the links get added as plain text (not the clickable blue). Not sure what I am missing.

[@adigreggio]

Great tips! Thank you! 🤓

[@jackbolel]

Leila, your videos are precious, you are the best tutor on KZbin. If you don’t mind, can you tell me if it is possible to sort Sections so that people I share my notebooks online can see the sections in the order I listed. Thank you in advance for your help.

[@rishabhmehta3364]

Thank you so much! As usual fantastic content.

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@josejavier17112001]

you are absolutely amazing, thank you so much.

[@krono32]

Thank you for these tips!:D

[@nevillejames2200]

Awesome. Very interesting

[@tomc7018]

Another excellent video!

[@chrism9037]

Great video Leila, very useful

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you think so, Chris!

[@chh8860]

Thursdays With Leila and a cup of hot coffee (5:15AM - Maryland) I use OneNote frequently … and yet I still picked up 2 tips that I was not aware were part of the OneNote arsenal, i.e. 1) linking, and 2) meeting note format (which I do use … but in a different manner ... I think I will be changing). A small epiphany occurred to me during the presentation … create a Notebook for Leila's work. Embarrassingly, it had not occurred to me before now. I LOVE her work (both KZbin and her Courses) but frequently I cannot find my way back to a point made, or a suggested technique and/or approach. I often feel like I am getting a drink of water with a firehose … so much excellent material but much of it does not apply to me (yet). I lack complete fluency (and recall) so I often get lost (frustrated … annoyed … aggravated) when I cannot quickly find my way back to a point made weeks/months/years earlier. Experience has taught me that my first idea is never my best idea. So despite having several ideas swirling around my head right now as to format and content of the Notebook, I need to let them 'brew' a bit longer. Again … thank you Leila …

[@LeilaGharani]

Happy Thursday. I had my cup of coffee a little later 😊. I fully understand what you mean. It happens to me all the time when I learn a new topic - whether it's from a book or an online course. What I found works best for me is to use tags or keywords for each lecture. Inside my courses, I provide the whole course outline with lecture names in an Excel file. You can use that and add a column with keywords for topics you think you might need to lookup later. You an combine the tabs from the different courses to one Excel file and then lookup a keyword by searching through all the different courses at once. Since I've started with this technique it's gotten a lot easier to find stuff. I use it for books too.

[@chh8860]

@@LeilaGharani " … Inside my courses, I provide the whole course outline with lecture names in an Excel file...". I must have missed that feature … Brilliant! (but no surprise to me) … thank you … thank you … thank you.

[@Crazy5exycurvy]

Thank you - this was very helpful.

[@LeilaGharani]

You're very welcome, Glenda!

[@Sarakness]

Thank you so much

[@deputycommissionerkolardis6471]

Love your videos

[@wrockage]

thank you!

[@DavidDeanSings]

Thanks!

[@HellenofTroy897]

Good job Leila! Do u know everything?👏👏

[@Srinivasan.Answers]

wonderful explanation!

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you think so!

[@NhekPoue]

Great tips

[@tedsterrett7204]

Wow! Your videos are very educational and interesting, as are you Miss... thank you!

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you like them Ted!

[@tedsterrett7204]

@@LeilaGharani Heart... Miss L.G.

[@billgillaspey9036]

Thanks. Not unexpectedly, I learned a lot. My favorite by far: OneNote web clipper is great--wish I had learned about that one before. Highly recommend it. Question: does anyone know if I can link ("connect") OneNote to gmail in much the same way as one does to MS Outlook?

[@tjj5259]

I would like this option too, since we don't use outlook

[@WidjajatjandraB]

Thanks Leila for this great tutorial.. do you have any tips how to use onenote effectively on an Android device with Stylus?

[@lamka04]

Hi Leila. Great channel! Wondering is there a way to add saved Excel/Word documents to One Note? Thanks!

[@tsvs58]

Excellent! Useful

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad to hear that!

[@richascolese480]

Great video today, thanks

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@AdilsonVCasula]

I would love if MS improve the shape system on OneNote like they did in Powerpoint. So I would really do my whole classes on there with Class Notebooks

[@saritshull3909]

What do you mean?

[@AdilsonVCasula]

@@saritshull3909 I can design almost every thing using shapes in Powerpoint, because the shapes are free to move and overlay each other, have a nice color sheet and other minor controls. In OneNote we don't have neither the free move for perfect alignment.

[@saritshull3909]

@@AdilsonVCasula I went into one note and I see what you mean. I cannot believe they removed such a useful product and replaced it with such a limited version. It's honestly awful.

[@saritshull3909]

I’ve seen some people make the shapes in pp and copy them into one note. It’s a bit of a pain though

[@matthewsjardine]

I find the Email Page option better for sharing meeting notes. It simply enters the contents of the page into an email. There is no need to worry about OneNote permissions.

[@wxkh1193]

leila ! as always, your videos are so helpful and give so much information on tricks and features. im a little bit late, but i have a question about the hyperlink section: can you do it automatically ? like, has microsoft added a feature to automatically create a table of contents much like word does when you structure headings, but with the title of the pages or the sections or notebooks, etc ? thank you again for this video and for your channel !

[@gideonyuval]

Thanks. I'd settle for one note which has basic features covered before all this stuff. For example - exporting a page (printing to pdf is a workaround). Or being able to easily move inside a page, like with the panning hand of one note 2016. First things first

[@stellachen4364]

Regarding the notes, even Onenote for windows 10 let you to email the notes, but it is in a link format. If you use the Onenote 2016 to email notes, it can actually put the notes in the email instead of just a link, sometimes I found that helpful.

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks for your feedback, Stella. I also like this feature but unfortunately it's not included in the current version of OneNote.

[@LearningBreak]

Congrats!