![]() ![]() Pages for me will contain one of five things: meeting notes, project notes, sketches and ideas, stuff I need to remember, or stuff I have clipped from the Internet. Thinking that it is always easy to group things but hard to break them apart, I started thinking about my notes at the Page level. Not bad eh? When you create a new notebook, you automatically get a Section (or tab) called New Section and a Page within that Section called Untitled Page. I created a first notebook called Test Notebook. ![]() I started by making a notebook, as you obviously need to have at least one to get going. As I have been so used to just flipping to a clean page in my Moleskin, I had to change my thinking here. The hard part this week was to decide how to best organize and structure my notes into these five levels. I can create as many notebooks as I desire. Notebooks can contain many sections groups, many sections, and many pages. Again, you can have as many section groups as you like. Section Groups bundle together sections….into groups. In fact, Microsoft says the number of pages and tabs is only limited by the physical storage space on your computer. Sections resemble tabs at the top of the screen, and a section (or tab) can hold numerous pages. In OneNote’s list of pages, you can roll up sub pages so that they disappear from the list, hiding under the master page. This is a sub-level of organization, and is just a page attached to another master page. Pages are the digital equivalent of the physical pages in my Moleskin notebook. This is the key feature of the product, allowing me to create structural categories. OneNote has five levels of organization that I could use to structure my notes. However, I will keep it short as this is my first cut at organizing my new digital notes. I could devote an entire novel to this topic alone. However as this journey is continuing to unfold and evolve, I thought we would start with the first question. ![]() The difficult ones are an ongoing experiment, so my recommendations may change with some further use of the tool. Some of these were easy to solve, some downright difficult. ![]() How to achieve my desire for freeform sketching.Over the past week I explored five key questions about using OneNote: Last week, in Part 1 of this series, I decided to select Microsoft OneNote as my digital notebook, replacing my gorgeous but analog Moleskin notebook. ![]()
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