Making my Digital Notebook in PowerPoint

Published on May 19, 2023
Creating a notebook graphic in PowerPoint that can be copied and used in OneNote is easier than it looks. That's what we are talking about in this video. It's fun to play around with all the colors, styles and graphics available to create the notebook that is perfect for you.
Hi, I’m Crystal. Welcome to a Crystal Clear Life where we talk about planning, organizing and living a more simplified life. I use Microsoft OneNote 365 to create functional and decorative planners and notebooks to help keep my life organized. OneNote is awesome because it crosses all platforms so I can use it on my desktop PC, my iPad and my Android phone. That way I am never without my planner! Hope you enjoy.
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Chapters
0:00 - Introduction
1:54 - Using PowerPoint to design a notebook background for OneNote
3:22 - starting from a blank slide
3:35 - creating notebook cover
5:45 - adding pages to the notebook graphic
9:10 - adding coils
10:15 - creating a landscape planner
11:15 - adding lines to divide pages
16:50 - adding a sewn stitching line
18:45 - creating the graphic to use in OneNote
22:00 - rotate a graphic in PowerPoint
23:25 - Conclusion
🐈‍⬛:: Products used in this video
• OneNote 365 version on Windows PC
• Calendarpedia www.calendarpedia.com/2023-ca...
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• List Graphics & Months - HappyDownloads
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• Calypso creative planning calypsocreativeplanning.com/c...
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[@mariaperez08360]

WOW! just wow at the way you explain. THANK YOU!

[@CrystalClearLife]

Glad it was helpful! 😊 You are very welcome.

[@StepheniePeaceBeStill]

Thanks so much! You provide excellent instruction!😊

[@CrystalClearLife]

You are so welcome!

[@friktionify]

OMG Crystal! You have in 1 hour or so broken through about 5 years of my brain refusing to understand how to use/create a digital planner:) Thank you so much! Every year I kept on buying planners designed around GoodNotes (which I purchased) and I guess it was the iPad part of the program I couldn't get through my brain until tonight! Not such an easy task as I used to be an administrative assistant in my department and kept fixing everybody's computers for them (in Windows) before I retired a few years ago. You are an amazing teacher - thank you again!

[@CrystalClearLife]

Awww, thank you for your kind words. You made my day!! I love digital planning and OneNote seems to be the best option for me. It crosses all platforms and syncs well. I am happy that you found my channel. Thanks for subscribing. If you have any questions let me know. I'm happy to help if I can.

[@mariadaversjo2829]

Hi Crystal! Just want to say that I am so, so happy I did bump into your videos about One Note and planners! You are so easy to follow and I have learnt so many new tings from you ❤ Thank you! //Maria in Sweden

[@CrystalClearLife]

Thank you so much!! You made my day! I am glad this is helpful. 😊

[@lisaherren8958]

This was SOOOOO helpful, Crystal! Thank you!

[@CrystalClearLife]

You are so welcome! Thanks for watching. 🥰

[@deannaJesusIsLord]

Thank you ... been binge watching your videos ... very, very helpful for this newbie!

[@CrystalClearLife]

Glad you like them! Thanks for watching and the kind comments. 😊

[@berneserainbow1407]

Great video, Crystal. The one thing I would add to this is the "background" of the notebook. If someone prefers not to have a blank notebook, but grid, dot grid or lines.

[@CrystalClearLife]

True that could be easily added as well. Maybe I need to do a follow-up showing that and Page color! Thanks as always for watching!

[@jenniferbyham7040]

Very helpful!! Thank you so much for sharing this!! Hope you have a great day!

[@CrystalClearLife]

Thank you! You too!

[@mbahsilviamuyang4366]

thank you thank you so so so much!!!!

[@CrystalClearLife]

You're welcome! Thanks for being a subscriber.

[@aminhussain1068]

Thank you 💖

[@CrystalClearLife]

You are so welcome

[@karolinavdwinden9889]

Thanks for the explanation. It is not that hard to do. Thanks for teaching us.

[@CrystalClearLife]

Glad it was helpful! 🥰

[@michaell7877]

Hi Crystal. I would like to thank you for your vids and the blessed person you are. I totally agree with mariadaversjo2829 totally. You have this gracious teaching ability. Tyvm for your video's and lovely spirit.

[@CrystalClearLife]

You are so welcome. I am so glad this is helpful. I am grateful I have the opportunity to continue to teach others.

[@debracox9277]

Really good stuff! Thank you.

[@CrystalClearLife]

You are very welcome!

[@janetdalby6076]

I love a good notebook. Going to try a Digital one

[@CrystalClearLife]

Let me know how it goes for you.

[@carolinekars-poley7976]

Instead of lines in the middle you can use a rectangle shape too.

[@CrystalClearLife]

Yep I could see how that would work perfectly. Good thinking and thanks for sharing.

[@stephmathe5149]

Can I save mine and save it to my computer and sell it as a digital product on Etsy, Amazon etc? Will people be able to use it on Goodnotes or other apps like that? Also, can I input my already created journal pages from Canva instead of creating new pages ? I just need the notebook feature. I can’t seem to get it right on Canva.

[@CrystalClearLife]

You can, it depends on how you save it. Goodnotes is for annotation of pdf files. You can bring Canva things in as graphics as well. But they too will function as graphics, meaning you can write over them but you can't actually write in the fields. Hope this is helpful and good luck on your venture.

[@barbra429]

Can you please share the link for the coil?

[@CrystalClearLife]

I apologize, I bought that years ago before I was on KZbin and I no longer have that information. You could probably search on etsy and find something close. Again, I'm sorry I can't help.

[@barbra429]

No problem, thank you.@@CrystalClearLife

[@user-ce8ge2xp6w]

My outline color didn't transfer?

[@CrystalClearLife]

Sometimes it can be hard to get every single component of your drawing in powerpoint. Especially if you take it too close to the edge of the slide. Remember you can always make it larger once you get it into OneNote.

[@mimiah8383]

Can you give a copy from this, please

[@CrystalClearLife]

Please send me an email with details about what you are looking for specifically. Thanks.