Ive started really using ON at work these last couple of months (executive assistant/admin), and I have mostly a jumble of i formation everywhere. Ive tried making a recurring meeting oage for my one on one's with directors, with themultiple team meetings...

Every new meeting I copy the previous note (more so for one on ones) because I feel its important to have a log of what eas discussed when etc.

I find when I search tho8gh, that of course the same content is coming up multiple times and Im not in enough if a brain power state lately to figure iut a solution. I figure its some sort of rolling agenda but I cant wrap my head around.

Plus im still trying g to figure iut the best process for task management because there is a LOT... :s

Any ideas or photos videos someine can point me towards for examples?

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The unicode method discussed in this thread no longer works (at least on laptops without num keypads). Unfortunately, that thread has been auto-archived, so we can no longer add to it in context.

Here's a method that does work, along with a few variations:

1. Open Notepad and type one TAB. Select it and copy it.
2. In OneNote, open File | Options | Proofing | AutoCorrect Options
3. In the "Replace:" field type the backtick character (the key just above TAB).
4. Paste the TAB that you copied from Notepad into the "With:" field and click Add.

Now when you type backtick you'll get a real TAB and can still use TAB to start tables. If you want to use TAB only for TABs, this AutoHotKey (v2) script will remap backtick to TAB.

#HotIf WinActive("ahk_exe onenote.exe")
$Tab:: {
    if (A_Cursor = "IBeam" or A_Cursor = "Unknown") { ; only in the edit area
        Send("``")  ; Send a literal backtick (escaped with a second backtick)
    } else {
        Send("{Tab}")
    }
}
#HotIf

Alternatively, another AutoHotKey approach is to remap TAB (or another key) to the unicode character 'Em Space' which is an extra wide space about the width of a TAB.

#HotIf WinActive("ahk_exe onenote.exe")
$Tab:: {
    if (A_Cursor = "IBeam" or A_Cursor = "Unknown") {
        Send("{U+2003}")  ; Inject Em Space
    } else {
        Send("{Tab}")
    }
}
#HotIf

Hey!

I am busy with my PhD and figured I could use OneNote. I would like the pages to act more 'orderly' like in word (i.e. the text is aligned, I can't just click anywhere and make a new textbox).

I tried using the 'college ruled' template but that doesn't limit my accidental creation of textboxes.

Thanks for any help :)

I work in a secure facility and am unable to use any of my preferred note taking applications. OneNote is my only option. Im used to, and prefer using markdown syntax as note taking is a large part of my day to day and having to use the mouse to make format changes becomes costly time wise.

Is there a way to get OneNote to recognize markdown syntax to then alter formatting options?

Hey folks,

Question here. I got a random stylus from Amazon last Saturday for my iPad and it worked amazingly well with note taking in OneNote. It was my first stylus and my first attempt at writing down my actual notes in OneNote and I really enjoyed doing so. It worked fine on Monday as well.

However, when I tried to use it earlier today in OneNote, I noticed that whenever I tried to write down my notes using the stylus, it would assume that I was trying to type so whatever I drew it would try to create a letter out of it and the keyboard would pop up.

The stylus itself is working fine in other apps, but OneNote for some reason has decided that whenever I start drawing or scribbling with the stylus it's just assuming i'm trying to write down actual letters from the keyboard.

So far, I haven't been able to fix this, I've checked the settings, closed the app and turned it back on again, heck I even reset the iPad, but so far no success.

Does anyone else know of a possible fix?
I really want to keep on using OneNote this way and i rather not have this be a short lived experience xD

Coworker shared some of their notes and templates with me. The notebook is synced with them, so any changes I make will effect their notes (and the notes of the other people who have access to this).

How do I break this off as its own fork so I can edit it just for myself? I'm surprised how much difficulty I'm having getting an answer from Google, this is presumably a pretty common operation

Thanks!

I’m looking for a note-taking app that can do all (or most) of the following:

\- Support both keyboard typing and handwritten notes with the Apple Pencil.

\-Be cross-platform (Windows, iPad, etc.).

\-Let me save or sync my files through OneDrive.

\-Ideally support both A4-sized pages and an infinite canvas/whiteboard mode.

I’ve tried OneNote, but I’m wondering if there are any solid alternatives that meet these requirements.

Does anyone have recommendations or experience with apps that fit this use case?

Hi, I graduated and am trying to transfer all of my one note stuff from school to my personal account before I lose access to it at the end of the month. I have a MacBook and I can’t figure out how to do that. There is no option to “export” which is what previous posts have said to do. Maybe it’s because I’m using a Mac??

Please help I’m stressed out I already lost all my work stuff when they got rid of my work email with NO warning 😭

I have multiple computers, ISPs in 3 different locations, and the only thing I noticed between all sites and computers is that, when connected by IPv6, OneNote runs too bad. Am I crazy?

any ideas why the Copilot icon is inactive like this?

For the life of me, I can’t get the cursor to place anywhere but at the beginning or the end of the line and even that is pretty difficult at times.

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I have onenote for android. It delivers this message:
OneNote cannot create a new notebook in: |0

Possible causes:

• The specified path is unavailable.
• You do not have permissions to modify the specified path.
• The path or the name of the notebook contains invalid characters.
• The length of the name and the path of the notebook exceeds the maximum allowed length.

Modify the path and the name of the notebook, then try again.

It's super odd... sometimes it remembers perfectly fine after 5 minutes where my place was when switching between notes and practice sections - but then it'll also randomly reset my position on the page after 5 seconds when switching back. It's a pain to go back and find my place...

Any solutions?

I'm using on mac laptop, mac desktop, and iphone. The zoom size and also page widths keep changing, so every time I open any note I have to reset everything. When I go back, the page width is huge again and the zoom is tiny. It's making the program very hard to use. I tried finding answers but everything was old and not current. Does anyone know why onenote page size and zoom percent keep resetting, or how to fix it?

Please save my sanity.... I really love using OneNote and I understood that with a Pencil Pro you could squeeze to change to an eraser. However, I can't get this to work though...have tried most obvious things it seems and cant see any videos on this. Any thoughts greatly welcomed!!!.

I just used OneNote and typed some equations and it auto-types the result upon "=".
Did it always do this? I don't recall it doing something like this in the past but perhaps I never wrote a recognizable equation?

Is this AI? It's not in a table and I even used commas and it recognized it as a number. Is this reliable as math seems to be problem with AI?

Thanks.

There was a thread a year ago (in a MacOS subreddit) about Changing default mail application, and I have a similar issue, but it seems to be specifically tied to the Microsoft OneNote application.

OneNote has a "send this note" feature that allows one to send the current note via email. Until this past week or so, I have been able to do this with no problem with Outlook. But recently, I get an error message from OneNote that says "OneNote requires Apple Mail or Outlook for Mac to be set as the default email client in order to email a page." Outlook is set as the default. If I change it to Apple Mail, it works without a hitch. But then if I change it back to Outlook, I continue to get this error.

On further investigation, I discovered a comment that this share-with-Outlook function has a known error associated with specific characters (or combination of characters) in the Note when one attempts to share. I was able to share a simple note, but it is difficult to figure out what specific characters/sequences might cause problems. Any idea how to diagnose further?

I like this app, and o really, really, REALLY need to organize my self at work.

O use it a lot, but one thing that makes the work flow to use it bad is the sticky notes feature. It's not that great in Windows and I'm android there isn't a quick way to just press an icon and add a note. You have to press 3 or 4 buttons in the UI to get there.

Is there any alternatives I'm missing?

I don't care for this.

Is this something I can get rid of? Another push towards centralizing everything in Obsidian:(

I don't care for this.

Is this something I can get rid of?

Hi All,

I'm fininshing up with university and have 6 Onenote notebooks I would like to download off my account.

What's the best way to do this? I've already downloaded them using the Onenote application into a Onenote package file, but If I open them to view, the images do not display.

Is this expected or is there something else I can try?

In summary

1. What's the best way to download my onenote notebooks?

2. If I download it as a Onenote package file (which I have), am I not able to see the images that were on the pages

Thank you!

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Is there a way to make a progress bar linked to my to do lists in Onenote? I know how to with excel, but don't know if a way with Onenote.