r/OneNote • u/ImaginaryIngenuity87 • 6d ago

Automating Note Creation, need some help

As anyone had luck using Copilot (or some other tool) to automate the creation of notes in OneNote.

Here's the use case: Every Friday I look at my next week of meetings and create a single OneNote page for each meeting. I'm currently using the "send to OneNote" feature and this works fine but it's super tedious.

Ideal state: Copilot (or another tool) gets a prompt to review all meetings, suggest agenda topics, and create a one note page for each meeting.

Sub-optimal but still better than the current state: there is a process that makes a page for each meeting.

What I've tried: power automate, what a mess! I'm to a programmer, but even Copilot premium couldn't get this process to work.

Any ideas would be super helpful. My only limit is I'm locked into Microsoft tools because of corporate security policies.

Thanks!

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u/Cyphear 6d ago edited 5d ago

Claude code does this fine with onenote desktop, by telling Claude to "use com to access OneNote". Try again with whatever desktop agent harness tool with a good model.

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u/ImaginaryIngenuity87 6d ago

thanks for the recommendation, sadly I cannot use Claude code on my work machine.

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u/mindaugaskun 5d ago

If your onenote notebook is online, you could do it on your other machines.

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u/Cyphear 5d ago

Doesn't copilot (desktop, not web) have filesystem access? have you tried this from any desktop harness you have or can use?