
This guide walks you through the basics of using OneNote, focusing on OneNote for Windows 10, the version that comes with Windows 10 and 11 and that’s available for download in the Microsoft Store. But anyone can download the app and use it for free. It’s pre-installed on Windows 10 and 11 and is included with a Microsoft 365 subscription. Microsoft OneNote is an excellent tool for the job. O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.A note-taking app can be helpful, especially if it enables you and your co-workers to collaborate on ideas. Get Office 365 For Dummies, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform. You can enter text and graphics to gather, organize, search, and share literally anything you can think of. Microsoft OneNote is a beefed-up word processing program. Instructions for tagging your notes, managing pages and sections, and restoring the previous version of a notebook are covered in the “Using Advanced Features” section of this chapter. To set the right expectations, a comparison between the desktop application and the online version of OneNote is covered in this chapter. In this chapter, you find out about the basics of Microsoft OneNote. Like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, OneNote Online allows you to create, view, and edit notebooks from a web browser. OneNote Online is Microsoft OneNote’s cloud cousin that comes bundled with Office Online in Office 365. In addition, OneNote allows you to share your notebooks with others for easy and effective collaboration. When you use OneNote, you get the benefit of powerful search capabilities so you can quickly find the information you need from a single location. Microsoft OneNote is a digital notebook perfect for gathering and storing all your notes, scribbles, emails, digital handwriting, audio and video recordings, research materials, links, and other types of digital information.

Using OneNote Online to drive productivity Getting introduced to the OneNote technology
