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• Getting everything you care about into OneNote

  Posted on December 12, 2022 at 02:44 CST by Mary Branscombe • Comment in the Forums

  ONENOTE

  

  By Mary Branscombe

  OneNote becomes increasingly useful as you put more and more of your information into it, and there are many other ways to do that besides typing or using copy and paste.

  Last time, I looked at why you might want to pull different kinds of information into OneNote. There are lots of tools in OneNote itself for doing that, as well as browser extensions and third-party services that can help.

  You can also do many of these things in the Windows 10 OneNote app, but because that won’t be getting new features, I will discuss only how to do them in the desktop OneNote app.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.50.0, 2022-12-12).

  OneNote Newsletters, Notes, Office, OneNote, Screen capture

• Why would you use OneNote at all?

  Posted on November 21, 2022 at 02:42 CST by Mary Branscombe • Comment in the Forums

  ONENOTE

  

  By Mary Branscombe

  If you’ve never seen the point of a digital shoebox for notes, here are some ways of putting OneNote to use that could change your mind.

  From the feedback I get when I talk about OneNote, it’s clear that there are plenty of devoted fans and heavy users out there. But I also get questions asking why you should use OneNote, and what it’s good at.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.47.0, 2022-11-21).

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• Stick A Note — It’s life-changing! No, really … life-changing

  Posted on September 19, 2022 at 02:45 CDT by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 19.38 • 2022-09-19

  FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

  

  By Deanna McElveen

  Is this freeware maven seriously going to shove another sticky-note program down our throats? Yes. Yes, I am.

  I am, because this is quite different. This will change the way you live! It’s on a par with the printing press! The cotton gin! This telephone! Okay, fine, it’s at least equal to the invention of fried pies!

  Anand Gupta, a wonderful, professional developer from West Bengal, India, has created a freeware program called Stick A Note that is considerably different from any sticky-note program you have ever used. Stick A Note does not put virtual sticky notes onto your desktop. It puts them on the windows of individual programs.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.38.0, 2022-09-19).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

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• NotesMan — It’s the simple things

  Posted on January 31, 2022 at 02:43 CST by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

  FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

  

  By Deanna McElveen

  Need a program that excels at doing just one thing? Look no further.

  Last week, we discussed Jochanan Agam’s Info-Base software — and boy, did I get some emails. No, they weren’t bad emails. It was just some of you folks wanting a note-taking program that is very simple and does just one thing — record your notes. I’m right there with you, so I found NotesMan by “OnlyDeLtA.” It may be just the program you’re looking for. It’s simple, it’s free, it’s fast, and it’s portable!

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.05.0 (2022-01-31).

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