That makes the online web app mildly interesting if you keep your notebooks obsessively organized, and essentially useless if you don’t know exactly where to look. Like the other Office Web Apps, the online version is functional but poorly designed, with a fatal flaw: there is no way to perform a search in the online notebooks. The incoming message will have a link that automatically opens the notebook.Īfter your notebooks are online, you can also open them from Skydrive in a web browser – OneNote is one of the Office Web Apps. The URL is shown on the File / Share page, suitable for copying, or you can click “Email Others About the Notebook” and address a message to yourself so you receive it on the second computer. The easiest way to open the online notebook on your second computer is to mail yourself a link to it from the first computer. A single click on the “Share Notebook” button moves it online. I created a notebook stored in my Documents folder, then clicked on File / Share. If you have existing notebooks, click on File / Share for a single-click way to move the notebook online. It’s the first choice when you create a new notebook.
The program expects you to store notebooks online. OneNote uses Skydrive to store the online notebooks you’ll have to be able to log into Skydrive before you work with OneNote’s online features. One consultant put his entire business into shared OneNote notebooks using OneNote 2007 his suggestions would be even easier to implement in the new version.īefore you try putting a notebook online, get your Windows Live ID straightened out. This can completely transform the process of collaborating on a project. You never have to remember to save anything in OneNote. It’s worth noting that OneNote saves everything continuously, automatically, instantly. New material will have a subtle icon to indicate which person added it to the page. The two of you can work on the same page at the same time.
If you’re sharing that notebook with someone else, the two of you can work on it simultaneously and see each other’s additions immediately. If you open that notebook on a second computer, changes will be synced back and forth between the computers in real time.
(If you’re offline, anything done in the notebook is synced the next time you connect.)Īnd then the magic happens. The program opens and you can use it, regardless of whether you’re online or offline.īut when you’re online (and you’re almost always online), anything you do in the notebook is synced almost instantly to the copy of the notebook stored in the cloud. It’s not a requirement but it’s highly recommended. When you create a notebook, the first option is to store the notebook online. OneNote 2010 is designed to be used on multiple computers. I’m going to describe the feature built into OneNote 2010 that works so well – quietly, seamlessly – that it deserves to be noticed, used, and celebrated.
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