Why am I writing a tutorial on getting started with the Microsoft OneNote App for iPhone a month after it hit the App Store for free? Because I, perhaps like you, grabbed it up the moment it became available, but havenât really used it since then. This is partially due to laziness, but also because the usefulness of this app is not 100% crystal clear to someone who doesnât already have OneNote as part of his or her workflow. But after taking the time to get to know this app, I can say that it does have some groovy potential. So, if you arenât already using the OneNote iPhone app on a regular basis, follow these steps to the letter (itâll only take ten minutes) and see if you donât enjoy this app more fully.
Article Map
- Setting Up OneNote on your iPhone
- Viewing and Editing OneNote Notes and Notebooks on Your Windows video converter [1] Live SkyDrive
- Creating Sections and Organizing Notebooks in Office Live
- Working With Synced Notebooks from the Microsoft OneNote Desktop Version
- Conclusion: OneNote in Real Life
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What Youâll Need
The big, big limitation when it comes to the Microsoft OneNote app for iPhone is that, in order to get the most out of it, youâll need a lot of proprietary Microsoft stuff. If you donât have all of the following, you may as well stop right now and go try Evernote:
- video to iOS device mac [2] 4.x.x or later
- Microsoft OneNote (included in Microsoft Office Home and Student, Home and Business and Professional)
- Internet Explorer 6 or later
- Windows video converter [3] Live ID
- Windows video converter Live Essentials 2011
You read that rightâ"if you are a Mac video converter [4] user, you are mostly out of luck. The only way to sync OneNote notes from your iPhone is through your SkyDrive, and the only way to work with SkyDrive notebooks is through Office Live or Microsoft OneNote. Currently, there is no Microsoft OneNote for Mac video converter. Sorry.
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Setting Up OneNote on your iPhone
By default, the iPhone OneNote app saves notes to the Personal (Web) notebook. This is where all of your Quick Notes will be saved. If you donât already have this notebook, itâll be created once you launch the iPhone app for the first time, so this is a logical place to start.
Step 1
Download the Microsoft OneNote App for iPhone from the App Store. Hurry, itâs freeâ"for now!
Step 2
Launch the OneNote app and log in with your Windows video converter Live ID.
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If you donâtâ have one, Touch Get a Windows video converter Live ID to get one.
Step 3
At this time, you may as well go ahead and create your first note, just so you can get familiar with OneNoteâs functionality and see how it syncs to the cloud and back again. Touch Quick Note on the bottom toolbar.
This will create a unfiled note in your Personal (Web) notebook.
Step 4
Add text, swf to photos [5] , bulleted lists and checkbox to your note. The buttons that appear above the keyboard have the following functions from left to right:
- Start bulleted list
- Start checkbox list
- Add photo (existing or take new)
- Hide keyboard
The note will save automatically, but when youâre done and want to navigate away,touch the button on the far-right to hide the keyboard.
To return to your notebook, touch the section name (here, itâs âUnfiled notesâ) in the top-left.
Step 5
As you can see, your note was placed in the Personal (Web) notebook in the Unfiled Notes section.
Unfortunately, you canât rearrange notes, add sections or add notebooks from the iPhone app. Thatâs a bit of a downer, but itâs best to think of the iPhone as a collection âbucketâ rather than a real workspace. For more nitty-gritty work, weâll move to Office Live or Microsoft OneNote in Windows video converter.
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Viewing and Editing OneNote Notes and Notebooks on Your SkyDrive
Even if you donât have Microsoft OneNote installed, you can get the full range of editing and organization features through Office Live. While this isnât ideal, it doesnât require you to buy anything, which is totally groovy in my book.
Step 1
Visit http://skydrive.live.com and log in using the same Windows video converter Live ID credentials as you used with your iPhone app.
Step 2
Click My Documents.
Step 3
Under My Documents, youâll find your Personal (Web) notebook that youâve been using with your iPhone app. To see the notes inside, Mouse-over the notebook and Click Edit in browser.
This opens the notebook in Office Live.
Step 4
Youâll find your note listed in the Unfiled notes section on the left.
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Creating Sections and Organizing Notebooks in Office Live
Recall that you canât add notebooks or re-arrange notes in the OneNote iPhone app. But you can in Office Live. This is where youâll want to set up your notebooks and organize any notes that you punched in on the fly on your iPhone.
Step 1
Right-click the area on the left-hand side and choose New Section. Give your section a name.
Step 2
Drag and drop notes from one section to another. You can organize all your notes in this way.
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Step 3
Now, check back on your iPhone app and youâll see the sections youâve created.
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From your iPhone app, you can add notes to the section of your choosing by navigating to it and Touching the + sign.
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Working With Synced Notebooks from the Microsoft OneNote Desktop Version
I donât know about you, but I always prefer to use the real thing whenever I want to get serious work done. Hereâs how to use the desktop version of OneNote and have your changes synced across your iPhone app and your SkyDrive notebooks.
Step 1
From the SkyDrive, Click Open in OneNote wherever you see it. It appears in the Office Live editing windowâ¦
..and in your SkyDrive.
Step 2
When warned of the potential harm that files from the Internet can inflict on your computer, Click OK.
Note that go3bez.docs.live.net will show up under your network places after you do this. Donât be alarmed. Itâs just how Windows video converter accesses your SkyDrive from Windows video converter Explorer.
Step 3
Microsoft OneNote will now open the notebook directly from your SkyDrive. You can see the name of your synced notebook on the left.
The Sync icon next to it lets you know that itâs saved to the free download web video [6] .
The notebook sections will be on the left, and the individual notes will be on the right. This is a wee bit confusing, since this is handled differently on Office Live, but no big deal. You can also navigate through sections via the tabs along the top.
You can create new sections by Right-clicking in the left-hand side. You can create new pages by Clicking New Page on the far-right.
Step 4
To create a new notebook and sync it to your SkyDrive and iPhone, Click File in OneNote and then choose New.
Step 5
Under New Notebook, choose free download web video where it reads âStore Notebook on:â.
Give your notebook a name, and then Click Sign In under free download web video Location.
Step 6
If prompted, enter your Windows video converter Live ID credentials.
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Step 7
At this point, you can choose a folder to save it in, or you can just stick it in My Documents.
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When youâre done, Click Create Notebook.
Step 8
Go ahead and create some notes.
The notebook and notes you created will now be available on your iPhone and on your SkyDrive.
The best part is that your notebooks stay open in OneNote. So, you donât have to go to your SkyDrive each time you want to access them. Just leave them open in OneNote, and each time you launch OneNote from your Windows PC video converter [7] , youâll see them sitting there, synced and ready for you to get back to your to-do list.
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One last thing, OneNote for iPhone syncs automatically, but if you ever get impatient, Touch Settings and Touch Sync Now.
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Conclusion: OneNote in Real Life
As you can see, the OneNote for iPhone is only one piece of the puzzle. To get the most out of this app, you need to incorporate the SkyDrive and the desktop version of Microsoft OneNote into your workflow. So, essentially, you would use:
- Microsoft OneNote (desktop) for creating new notebooks and âseriousâ work.
- Office Live (via the free download web video ) for accessing notes from public computers or on someone elseâs machine (or a Mac video converter ).
- OneNote for iPhone for capturing thoughts, to-do lists, ideas and pictures.
Office Live also lets you share notebooks with other Windows video converter Live users, which makes it a fairly powerful collaborative tool. You can use a shared OneNote notebook to keep track of a grocery list or honey-do list with your spouse. Or you could make a notebook available to your friends and family and use it as a private photo feed.
And, of course, given the number of notebooks and sections you can create, you can easily turn your OneNote for iPhone app into a powerful bucket for your OneNote GTD system.
The strengths of the iPhone OneNote app is that itâs slick, itâs reliable, it works seamlessly with your SkyDrive, Office Live and the Windows video converter version of OneNote and itâs the only official Microsoft Office app available for the iPhone. I know thereâs been a lot of poo-pooing of this app on the blogosphere, but I think if you can learn to enjoy using OneNote, the iPhone app will become your best friend.
Links
- ^ Windows video converter (www.higosoft.com)
- ^ video to iOS device mac (www.higosoft.com)
- ^ video converter (www.higosoft.com)
- ^ Mac video converter (www.higosoft.com)
- ^ swf to photos (www.higosoft.com)
- ^ free download web video (www.higosoft.com)
- ^ PC video converter (www.higosoft.com)
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