OneNote - How to use it?
Why using this tool – benefits
Microsoft’s OneNote is actually a digital notepad accessible via the Internet. Designed to gather information from other programs or from the Internet, along with those written by the user, it has an extremely flexible structure, which allows great freedom of work. The data are contained in notebooks, which are divided into tabs, in turn divided into pages. Each of these parts is connected with the others in an information network and can be copied or moved from one notebook to another with a single click.
Furthermore, OneNote has been specifically programmed for the use with mobile devices (tablet and smartphone) and incorporates many digital ink features (absent in the web version), leveraging the Windows-integrated write recognition technology, which allows you to convert handwritten notes into editable text.
By installing an add-on, available for free, the program also allows you to enter and calculate mathematical equations.
OneNote installs in your PC a dedicated printer (listed as "Send to OneNote"), suitable for clippings of various displayed objects.
Written instructions
Microsoft OneNote is an online note management program produced by Microsoft and distributed for free under commercial license. It is part of the Microsoft Office personal productivity package, and is available for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android operating systems. In 2016 Microsoft included OneNote in the Windows 10 suite, so the program is automatically available for all those who use this operating system. People using different operating system and/or without Microsoft Office package can anyway download for free the last separate version, published and available as OneNote 2016 (https://www.onenote.com/download).
As there are several different ways to obtain OneNote, according to your operating system and installed software, we are introducing here the easiest solution available for anyone, that’s to say downloading OneNote 2016.
1. Open your browser and ask your search engine to download OneNote 2016:
2. A dialogue page will appear in front of you, and it should be in your Country language. If it shouldn’t happen, or if you prefer to use a different language, you can change it clicking on the button in the bottom left corner. Once chosen the language, click on Download.
3. Follow the installation procedure in your computer and then launch OneNote from the start menu. OneNote is now available and you can use it as a flexible and smart planner for your activities, notepad or whatever you want about your job, spare time, private life et cetera.