Before we begin, I wanted to tell you a little about the piece of software that we are covering today. One of the things I love about Microsoft OneNote is there really is an application for everyone, whether you’re the kind of person who's maybe a stay-at-home parent or if you’re a busy business executive. There really is a use for everyone.
If you’re not familiar with the software, if I had to explain it in basically a sentence, what I would probably describe it as is a nonlinear form of Microsoft Word. With Word, you know what you’re getting.
It’s a document, and you go to the line. Typically, with most Word documents, it's just text. You don’t typically have other things in there, although you can. With Microsoft OneNote, it’s more nonlinear in the sense that you can draw anywhere. You can click here and put text. You can put text there.
You can organize your whatever it is you have to different notebooks. Whether you’re using it to catalog recipes or you’re using it to organize notes about clients that you work with in whatever business you do, again, application is for everyone. There may be some subtle changes here and there but basically the same information across the board.
Another thing that I think it’s good for you to know is that it does synchronize your data in the process of using this software. Let’s say, for example, you have some important information in your computer and you have a house fire. If you go to OneNote.com, you can sign in with your Microsoft account and get access to everything.
OneNote also has some really great features that work with other tools, like, for example, your web browser. Now, It’s where I put links always to any products I may mention or just little special pieces of information that I think you might need to remember down the road.
That being said, let’s start the class. At the very top level, we have what are your notebooks. In this case here, you can see my top notebook is going to be Recipes. If you are, example, a student, and you're using this for educational purposes, your notebook might be a class that you’re taking. Then, one level below that, would be what are called your sections and section groups.
You have kind of an optional level here that you can utilize if you want. I can go into Breakfast, and I can then have my final level, which are pages, although there is actually one more.
In addition to Pages, you can also have what is a sub-page. Basically, the way that you create any of these is what I think I’d like to go over next. Let’s start over here on the top level. Here on the left-hand side of your screen are the notebooks.
If you want to create a new notebook, it's just as easy as going down here to the bottom left and clicking on the little plus symbol. From here, you can choose from which color you want your notebook to be represented by. Let’s use the example I just gave a moment ago.
This is where your data is being stored. I want to make a second point about this. OneDrive is a Microsoft service, and everyone gets it for free - I believe it is 5 gigabytes of data. This is actually quite a large amount of data. Now, do you want more than this.
They actually have up to a terabyte per person for $70 a year, which is actually pretty reasonable for those of you out there who are really, really going to use this a lot, or up to 5 terabytes for families. That’s the other option. I think, for the vast majority of you, 5 gigabytes is going to be plenty of storage for you. We are going to hit Create here, and Page called Suraj. You can see here we have our new notebook. Now, if we want to create a section, you can see it does create one by default.
At this point, what we can do is if you want to rename any of these things — for some of you, it’s going to be a right click. For some of you Mac users, it’s going to be a secondary click. If you’re on something like a Mac laptop, you’re going to click with two fingers present on your trackpad, and, you get all of your different options here. The first one is Rename. In this case, for this student, this might be just simply a date that they were in school, whatever it was.
We’ll call it Oct 1,2020. Then you can put in all of the information for the page here. If you ever need to create something like a subpage, again — I just showed you — you just simply secondary-click. Actually, we have to create a secondary page in order to create a subpage. All you have to do is basically secondary-click, and you’ll see here that we can now make it a subpage, and we have some sort of a funky command to do that, but I don’t think you need that. Now, when it comes to actually creating your content, this is where it gets really cool, folks, is that you’re not bound by anything.
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