What is OneNote?

You can think of OneNote as a "digital scratchpad" vs Word which is more like a "digital typewriter".  It allows you much more freedom when creating entries than a product like Word.

OneNote

OneNote is a digital notebook that allows you to gather and organize your notes and information. You can organize text, pictures, digital handwriting, audio, video, and more, in one notebook. It provides powerful search capabilities to easily find information and you can share your notebooks and work together with others more efficiently. Below are some tips and tricks for using OneNote, such as importing Evernote files into OneNote, using OneNote to memorize information easier, saving OneNote documents in different formats, among other useful tips. We also provide a guide to getting started with OneNote 2010.

• Beginner Geek: Getting Started With OneNote 2010
• Beginner: Save Your OneNote 2010 Docs to Different File Formats
• Calculate Simple Math Quickly in OneNote
• How to Use OneNote Printer to Extract Text from Images and PDFs
• OCR anything with OneNote 2007 and 2010
• Import Evernote Files Into MS OneNote 2010
• Import Evernote Notes Into OneNote the Easy Way
• Personalize Your OneNote 2010 Notebooks With Backgrounds and More
• Share OneNote 2010 Notebooks with OneNote 2007
• Use OneNote to Make Memorizing Information Easier

OneNote 2010 (and 2007) ships with a number of "getting started" note books (I don't see them in 2013, but I suspect they may be there also). Notes like "Getting Started with OneNote.one" and "More Cool Features.one" and "OneNote Guide.one"

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/office-2013-quick-start-guides-HA103673669.aspx

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/download-office-2010-training-HA101901726.aspx

  - Making the switch to OneNote 2010

1.1  OneNote: The Basics

• Meet OneNote: an overview article
• A place for all of your information (video)
• OneNote home page at Office.com (lots of links)
• OneNote Mobile Apps
• SkyDrive: Learn more and sign-up for free
• First 15-Minute Webinar, Intro to OneNote

1.2  OneNote: Things you (probably) didn't know

• Customizing the task bar in Windows 7 article
• Using Side Notes demo video
• Audio and video in OneNote article
• Templates for OneNote (videos, including the funny one)
• Create a Notebook or template in OneNote demo video
• Better Together: OneNote and Outlook article
• The recipe notebook mentioned, including that S'mores pie (Opens as a free OneNote Web App)

1.1.1OneNote: A reason to ditch the legal pad?

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote-help/onenote-a-reason-to-ditch-the-legal-pad-HA001104317.aspx?CTT=1

Evernote vs. OneNote: Note-Taking Apps Showdown

https://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/248992-2/evernote_vs_onenote_notetaking_apps_showdown.html

1.1  Online Collaboration and Social Independent Learning (part 1)

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukschools/archive/2012/01/19/one-note-and-sharepoint-2010-online-collaboration-and-social-independent-learning-part-1.aspx

1.1  Practical Guide to Task Management & Creating Shared Resources

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukschools/archive/2012/02/17/onenote-in-the-classroom-practical-guide-to-task-management-amp-creating-shared-resources.aspx

1.1  Ways to Share with OneNote

http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-onenote/archive/2013/04/08/office-15-minute-webinar-ways-to-share-with-onenote.aspx

1.1  Color Code Notebooks and More in OneNote 2010

http://www.carolscorneroffice.com/free\_newsletter/20120501free.php

1    10 Awesome OneNote Tips You Should Be Using All The Time \[Windows\]

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-awesome-onenote-tips-time/

A few examples of addins for One Note.

OneCalendar

http://www.omeratay.com/onetastic/?r=onecal

I wrote an addin to create pages per day for you as well: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/johnguin/archive/2008/10/07/a-calendar-planner-powertoy-for-onenote.aspx

MIght be useful for you or at least save you some time.

John Guin

Click on settings (the gear icon on the bottom right) then chose "Created date" and uncheck "Last modified date"

MS Office Mathematics Plug-in Solve equations in Word and OneNote

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=ca620c50-1a56-49d2-90bd-b2e505b3bf09

atharvai 2nd May

This official free plugin by Microsoft is simply amazing. This is for Word and OneNote 2007 & 2010. Those who use OneNote already know that if u enter a simple arithmetic equation it calculates automatically. such as "2+3=5". This plugin goes beyond this. you can enter any equation with any number of variables and it can either solve for all the variables, plot 2D or 3D graphs. you can enter a table of data and plot simple graphs. Calculates complex arithmetic, integration, differentiation, complex integrals, etc.

Very simple to use, enter the equation in Equation editor and right click the equation and select the calculation to perform. for multiple equations, select multiple equations. It recognises subscripts as variables and superscripts as powers. I have found this plugin very useful for my university work. Really this is for anyone who works with a lot of math.

Hope you find this plugin very useful.

Thanks,

Atharva

website: http://atharvai.wordpress.com

Microsoft Mathematics Add-in for Word and OneNote

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17786

you can perform mathematical calculations and plot graphs in your Word documents and OneNote notebooks. The add-in also provides an extensive collection of mathematical symbols and structures to display clearly formatted mathematical expressions. You can also quickly insert commonly used expressions and math structures by using the Equation gallery.

The Microsoft Mathematics Add-in can help you with the following tasks:

• Compute standard mathematical functions, such as roots and logarithms
• Compute trigonometric functions, such as sine and cosine
• Find derivatives and integrals, limits, and sums and products of series
• Perform matrix operations, such as inverses, addition, and multiplication
• Perform operations on complex numbers
• Plot 2-D graphs in Cartesian and polar coordinates
• Plot 3-D graphs in Cartesian, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates
• Solve equations and inequalities
• Calculate statistical functions, such as mode and variance, on lists of numbers
• Factor polynomials or integers