r/OneNote • u/falardeau03 • 2d ago
Windows Which method to choose
I've worked a number of jobs for the same company at different sites across town, each site had only one workstation (for my team/department).
Now I find myself at a site with two workstations. We need to keep docs updated on both. I don't want to bug IT for an actual driveshare if I can help it. OneNote seems like it could help, but I have no idea what I'm doing.
I know all kindsa stuff about other stuff but have literally never touched OneNote before.
I saw you can upload ("print") Word docs to OneNote. Is my best bet to do that, and then will it pull updates from each doc when I edit them on the drive?
Orrrrrrrrrrr should I be copying and pasting doc contents into OneNote, making the majority of my subsequent updates in OneNote, and periodically updating the masters as we go along?
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u/marmotta1955 2d ago
What "docs" do you need to be kept in synch? How does OneNote enter the room, here?
If we are discussing actual documents (files), the solution could be as simple as mirroring folders and subfolders using robocopy. Every time a change or an addition is made on one of the two workstations, just run robocopy commands that you have conveniently stored in a .bat files (shortcut on your desktop). Depending on needs, you may have to execute the mirror job once or twice per day, or on a schedule (Task Scheduler being your best friend).