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Overview

OneNote is a powerful tool to organize your projects and ideas for work or for personal projects. Think of it as an electronic variation of a physical notebook. You can store your study notes, organize them depending on different subjects, add meeting notes, make to-do lists, write down even random thoughts or collaborate with friends and peers using OneNote’s highlighting, markups and annotations features.

Additionally you can add images, diagrams, audio, video, and more.

You can take it with you basically anywhere you go, which means you can capture digital notes and keep them organized all the time.

You can use OneNote on your desktop, mobile devices or in the browser.

Main features of OneNote

• Just like physical notebooks, OneNote is a collection of note pages. One advantage of it is the ability to add more pages or move those pages around within your notebook.
• OneNote Web Clipper, a really useful extension, helps you save the content you like, from the websites you visit, whilst also keeping the text too, in order to allow you to quickly search for a specific term in OneNote. The data is clipped directly to OneNote and thereafter you can access the content from any device that has the application installed with your account. A link is also made available in case you would like to view the full page in the future.
• OneNote can sync among mobile and desktop devices. You can also opt to sync between online and offline use.
• Tagging and Prioritizing Notes. OneNote provides several tags — visual markers — that you can apply to any part of your notes to help you visibly prioritize or categorize marked notes.
• Creating checklists is a built-in capability of OneNote that you can use for all sorts of different things. Perhaps the most obvious use is a to do list.
• You can include images, documents, audio, video, and more in your OneNote.
• You can use the built-in OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to convert an image to plain text by simply taking a screenshot of the text you want to process. Then paste the screenshot into OneNote and then right click and select “Copy Text from Picture.”
• Collaboration and sharing is possible in OneNote. Real-time collaboration means more than one person can be editing the same document at the same time, and the online version of OneNote allows you to do this with notes.
• In OneNote you can share an entire notebook with other people and allow each invited notebook participant to view or fully edit your notes. If your notebook is stored in your personal OneDrive account, you can also share a static snapshot of any single page of notes.

OneNote is an efficient way to organize your work, you can take it with you basically anywhere, you can collaborate and share your notes and there are many more possibilities

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