This is a more visual, interactive way to keep track of things – a solid alternative for when you get sick of typing things out.

Click on Insert -> Record Audio/Record Video to start taking notes.

Spice up your routine by taking audio and video notes instead. Typing notes into OneNote can get awfully tedious very soon. Unsure about using OneNote? Need a helping hand with MS Office? This Microsoft Office 2010 training course will introduce you to all the best features in OneNote, Excel, Word, Access and PowerPoint. The default setting is automatic we suggest you keep it as is. You can also change sync settings to manual or automatic under ‘Sync Options’ in the Info panel under File menu (OneNote 2013). You can also use DropBox for syncing – just make sure to select the DropBox folder on your computer when creating a new notebook. Besides SkyDrive, you can save and sync notebooks using Office 365 Sharepoint. Starting with Office 2013, OneNote actually prompts you to log into SkyDrive – Microsoft’s cloud storage solution – to sync notebooks automatically. This means you can create a new note on one your home computer before heading out to work, and resume using it on your laptop at the office. Syncing means that all your notebooks get updated across all your devices in real time. To take real advantage of OneNote’s features, you must save and sync all your notebooks online.

Saving notebooks to your local computer is basically using OneNote like a glorified Notepad. Learn how to make best use of OneNote with this comprehensive OneNote 2013 training tutorial. Efficient, effective, and packed full with features, OneNote can help you get more done faster, provided you use it correctly. Originally released as part of Office 2003, OneNote has quickly become the most powerful software of its kind on the market. This is the promise of OneNote, the note taking application that comes with Microsoft Office. But what if you could ditch all those tedious paper notebooks and store all your thoughts in a digital repository? What if you could search through your notes, share them seamlessly with others, and access them from anywhere in the world? Note taking, after all, is the tool of choice for the consummate organizer. If you’re anything like us, you probably have dozens of notebooks filled with fragments of thoughts and ideas strewn all around over the house.

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