Microsoft OneNote allows users to gather notes, drawings, screenshots, and audio comments and share them with other users over the Internet. It can sync notes with SharePoint for collaboration and sharing. OneNote is useful for note-taking, acting as a whiteboard, capturing images and audio, and creating drafts. It has mobility options for syncing to mobile devices. While Evernote is good for multi-device access, OneNote has more features for Windows users and can sync with SharePoint. Key OneNote features include sections, notebooks, screenshots, OCR, tags, and pages. Sharing notebooks through SharePoint allows for searching, collaboration, and backup of OneNote files.

1. Microsoft OneNote in SharePoint

2. What is OneNote
• Microsoft OneNote (formerly called Microsoft Office OneNote) is a
computer program for free-form information gathering and multi-user
collaboration. It can gather users' notes (handwritten or
typed), drawings, screen clippings, and audio commentaries and share
them with other users of Microsoft OneNote over the Internet.
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onenote
• History:
– OneNote 2003
– OneNote 2007
– OneNote 2010

3. OneNote is what Willis was
Talkin’ bout…

4. What is it really
• The Coolest tool in the Office 2010 suite (and gasp! It is in
every Office version – student to business to professional)
• Killer app for note-taking (particularly IT
Professionals, Students and those that have to accumulate
and sift/manage lots of disparate data)
• When collaborating with others, it is a kick ass WhiteBoard
application as well
• Image and Audio OCR in a snap
• A great place to create drafts if you are an avid blogger
• Great on a Microsoft Tablet (no, I don’t mean the iPad). I
mean the Windows kind, with a stylus

5. Mobility Options
• MobileNoter (sync with OneNote on your Desktop)
– iPhone, iPad and Android
– Can sync with SharePoint, because the sync happens with your
desktop
• OneNote for Mobile (from Microsoft)
– Only synchronizes with Windows Live Skydrive or Dropbox; boo/hiss
– iPhone, Android and Windows 7 Phone
• pretty late to the party though…
– Free for first 500 notes, paid version thereafter

6. Mobility Options
• MobileNoter (sync with OneNote on your Desktop)
– iPhone, iPad and Android
– Can sync with SharePoint, because the sync happens with your
desktop
• OneNote for Mobile (from Microsoft)
– Only synchronizes with Windows Live Skydrive or Dropbox; boo/hiss
– iPhone, Android and Windows 7 Phone
• pretty late to the party though…
– Free for first 500 notes, paid version thereafter

7. Mobility Options
Mobilenoter Desktop Sync Tool
OneNote for Mobile
MobileNoter

8. OneNote vs. EverNote
• OneNote is FAR more rich in overall features if you are a
Windows User
• However, EverNote is a great platform if you want to
access your notes on any device, anywhere – but it sure
ain’t OneNote…
– OneNote needs competition though and I’m hoping the two
continue to push each other… among the other masses of note
takers
I use both, though I use OneNote far more… and I’m hoping Microsoft comes to
the table soon with a better mobile option, specifically support for synching with
SharePoint.

9. That’s cool but you’re a
SharePoint Guy. Why would a
SharePoint guy care?

10. Introduction to OneNote Functionality
• Uh. Just show me Dude…
– Creating a Notebook
– Tour
– Search text, images (what!), audio (howdedodat?)
– Email Pages
– Print to OneNote
– Task to Outlook
– Templates – get ‘em and make ‘em
– Password protected sections
– Screenshots
– Website/Source references
• And then rub SharePoint into it…
– Search
– Sharing
– Office Web Apps (OWA) – note, files in 2010 format (but you can convert back if needed)
– Save to Blog (Word -> Blog)

11. Show Me the Money! – Some Cool Features
1) Sections of the Notebook 5) Tags (can sync with Outlook calendar, just like your
2) Notebooks notebook can auto-sync up to SharePoint)
3) Screen cap 6) Pages inside this section
4) OCR’d Text from screen cap (also works with
audio from microphone) Note: Passwords can be added to parts of shared books!

12. Summary and some tips
• OneNote is AwesomeSauce. Get to know it. That is all.
• Now What (tips)
– Use it and try to remember to use it. Put it in your startup group.
I forget to use it somehow… I can’t explain why that is…
– Share OneNote through SharePoint so you can
search, share/collaborate and its getting backed up
– Light up your IT team with it – seriously, there are no excuses for
IT folks to not be using this
– Draft your blogs in OneNote. Polish and publish