OneNote knows that we don’t all think alike or want to express our ideas the same way everybody else does it.

Figure B Add pictures easily to your notes pages from your phone or your desktop. You can also drag and drop images right from your desktop to your notes pages. If you want to just add images to your desktop version - in other worlds, you’re not out in the world gathering snapshots - just display the page where you want to add the image, click Insert, click Picture, and choose the picture you want to add to your note ( Figure B). When this note syncs with your OneNote Web App, you’ll be able to access that notebook also through your desktop version of OneNote. You can grab a picture on your phone and then use your OneNote Mobile app to create a new note that includes the picture. You can easily add your pictures to your OneNote notebook one of two ways. Now that we have digital cameras on our phones, we can grab pictures of everything, from cool product packaging to a vacation poster to something cute the kids did. Figure A You can create a new side note on the fly and OneNote deposits it in your Unfiled Notes folder. When you want to see what good ideas you’ve dumped into Unfiled Notes, just click the notes icon in the bottom left corner of the OneNote window. OneNote saves the side note by default in your Unfiled Notes folder. If you’re an on-the-fly kind of person, you can create a new note on your OneNote Mobile app or click New Side Note to open a pop-up note where you can add your thoughts ( Figure A). OneNote makes it easy for you to grab notes either way. Or maybe you’re a more orderly creative thinker: You’d prefer to open the notebook you need and file your notes away as they occur to you. 1: Capture ideas wherever they arise - and file them laterĭepending on how you think best, you may love to toss out a bunch of ideas and then file them later.

This article suggests 10 ways OneNote helps you get your thoughts in order. Wouldn’t it be great to have some kind of magical notepad that just captured all your best ideas the minute you think them? (Or course, depending on what you’re thinking about, capturing everything might not be such a good idea.) OneNote 2010, one of the apps included in the Office 2010 suite, doesn’t work magically, but it does work well, gathering up your notes in a variety of forms, working seamlessly with the other apps, and enabling you to access them over the Web or using your mobile phone. These basic pointers will get you started. OneNote makes it easy to preserve, organize, and retrieve ideas and info you might otherwise forget or lost track of. 10 tips for using OneNote to keep your good ideas from getting away

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