Strategy help for a newbie Jeremy's Dad 10/10/2008 6:38:01 PM Just started using OneNote today and would like some "strategic" suggestions as it cleary is a very powerful tool. In short, I am preparing a series of classes for a course I will be teaching in January and I want to use OneNote to assist in my preparation. Assuming for simplicity that each class, I will be teaching the students about a specific person in history. My immediate thoughts are as follows: * One notebook for each class (person's name) * One section for each topic in a given class time period, current events of the time, contemporaries etc. * One page for each different research book/material with each topic That structure works for me in terms of gathering the information I want and keeping it organized as to where the source is. I am unsure how to start to "put it together" in preparation for my lectures. How best to gather all the current events from each source for example? Am I to understand that OneNote can help in some magical way? (grin) Hoping that question makes sense, I look forward to your thoughts. Gary

Re: Strategy help for a newbie "Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" <bens[ at ]bogusaddress.mvp> 10/10/2008 7:39:06 PM I'm not sure there really is a magical formula. Your proposed organization sounds good to me. Gathering info into OneNote is pretty easy; but it won't really help you FIND that information. I typically get on the net, find articles and resources that are interesting/useful, then drag/drop that content into OneNote. Once it's in OneNote you can organize, sort, annotate... -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "Jeremy's Dad" <Jeremy's Dad[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:81D1C19B-2021-4F8D-9B86-46C67EAFCFE3[ at ]microsoft.com: [Quoted Text] > Just started using OneNote today and would like some "strategic" suggestions > as it cleary is a very powerful tool. In short, I am preparing a series of > classes for a course I will be teaching in January and I want to use OneNote > to assist in my preparation. > > Assuming for simplicity that each class, I will be teaching the students > about a specific person in history. My immediate thoughts are as follows: > > * One notebook for each class (person's name) > * One section for each topic in a given class > time period, current events of the time, contemporaries etc. > * One page for each different research book/material with each topic > > That structure works for me in terms of gathering the information I want and > keeping it organized as to where the source is. > > I am unsure how to start to "put it together" in preparation for my > lectures. How best to gather all the current events from each source for > example? Am I to understand that OneNote can help in some magical way? (grin) > > Hoping that question makes sense, I look forward to your thoughts. > > Gary

Re: Strategy help for a newbie John Guin [msft] 10/11/2008 3:16:01 AM You can also check out a blog centered on OneNote in the educational world at http://blogs.msdn.com/onenote_and_education -- Thanks, John Guin OneNote Test Team http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin "Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote: [Quoted Text] > I'm not sure there really is a magical formula. Your proposed > organization sounds good to me. > > Gathering info into OneNote is pretty easy; but it won't really help you > FIND that information. I typically get on the net, find articles and > resources that are interesting/useful, then drag/drop that content into > OneNote. Once it's in OneNote you can organize, sort, annotate... > > -- > -Ben- > Ben M. Schorr, MVP > Roland Schorr & Tower > http://www.rolandschorr.com > http://www.officeforlawyers.com > Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: > http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q > > > > "Jeremy's Dad" <Jeremy's Dad[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:81D1C19B-2021-4F8D-9B86-46C67EAFCFE3[ at ]microsoft.com: > > > Just started using OneNote today and would like some "strategic" suggestions > > as it cleary is a very powerful tool. In short, I am preparing a series of > > classes for a course I will be teaching in January and I want to use OneNote > > to assist in my preparation. > > > > Assuming for simplicity that each class, I will be teaching the students > > about a specific person in history. My immediate thoughts are as follows: > > > > * One notebook for each class (person's name) > > * One section for each topic in a given class > > time period, current events of the time, contemporaries etc. > > * One page for each different research book/material with each topic > > > > That structure works for me in terms of gathering the information I want and > > keeping it organized as to where the source is. > > > > I am unsure how to start to "put it together" in preparation for my > > lectures. How best to gather all the current events from each source for > > example? Am I to understand that OneNote can help in some magical way? (grin) > > > > Hoping that question makes sense, I look forward to your thoughts. > > > > Gary > >

Re: Strategy help for a newbie "Steve Thackery" <nobody[ at ]nowhere.com> 10/11/2008 1:10:57 PM [Quoted Text] > Once it's in OneNote you can organize, sort, annotate... ....and you can insert plenty of hyperlinks between the various bits and pieces, which will help pull it together. SteveT

Re: Strategy help for a newbie Jeremy''s Dad 10/11/2008 5:15:01 PM Steve, Can you give me some examples of how the hyperlinks "pull it together"? I'm not looking for the lazy way our here but have just been looking at using tags and thought maybe custom tags would assist me. If I understand them correctly, I can request a listing of all items by tag. This would certainly be helpful in assembling my research for a lecture. Thanks G "Steve Thackery" wrote: [Quoted Text] > > Once it's in OneNote you can organize, sort, annotate... > > ....and you can insert plenty of hyperlinks between the various bits and > pieces, which will help pull it together. > > SteveT > >

Re: Strategy help for a newbie "Steve Thackery" <nobody[ at ]nowhere.com> 10/11/2008 9:45:37 PM [Quoted Text] > Can you give me some examples of how the hyperlinks "pull it together"? I don't really have a clear picture of what you require. But, in my case, I often have a snippet of information that might be relevant in more than one of my notebook pages. Or I want to make it easy to jump between related topics. That's when I use hyperlinks. Think of your notebook pages as web pages - on a web page you will often see hyperlinks to related topics on other web pages. You can do the same between pages in your OneNote notebooks. I dunno - suppose you're interested in writing software, and you've got a page on Visual Basic, and another page for Fortran. On your Visual Basic page you might have a snippet about how to create an array of integers. This might be a great place to insert a hyperlink to the equivalent operation on the Fortran page. And maybe another hyperlink to an online Visual Basic reference. With respect to your lectures, I don't have enough of a feel for how you work or what you want to achieve. But you will have realised that the notebook/section/page arrangement is essentially hierarchical, which is a great way to organise information. Hyperlinks complement that arrangement by letting you "punch through" the hierarchy where it's appropriate. It's another way of moving around your "web" of information. Simple as that. Only you will know whether that is useful for you. Sorry I can't really be more specific than that. SteveT

Re: Strategy help for a newbie Jeremy''s Dad 10/11/2008 10:11:01 PM Steve, Your examples work very well for me. In fact, I think they are going to be high priority for "playing" about. My current process for gathering materials from my research has been time consuming and work intensive. As I am working on a given topic, I can have dozens specific sources that I need to keep track of. This results in me often recreating the same work multiple times because I write the information in one document for each source and then cut & paste from all of them to create a main document to use for my lecture. Later, I then repeat the steps to prepre PowerPoint slides. Finally, one more time as I create handouts etc for students. I'm hoping to find a simplified way to "assemble" the pieces of information I need without the need for duplication. Thanks for your suggestion, I'd like to play with it a while along with the tags.. Up here in Canada, this is our Thanksgiving weekend. As I prepare to dig into all the stuffing, please accept my best wishes and I trust you will take Care Gary "Steve Thackery" wrote: [Quoted Text] > > Can you give me some examples of how the hyperlinks "pull it together"? > > I don't really have a clear picture of what you require. But, in my case, I > often have a snippet of information that might be relevant in more than one > of my notebook pages. Or I want to make it easy to jump between related > topics. That's when I use hyperlinks. Think of your notebook pages as web > pages - on a web page you will often see hyperlinks to related topics on > other web pages. You can do the same between pages in your OneNote > notebooks. > > I dunno - suppose you're interested in writing software, and you've got a > page on Visual Basic, and another page for Fortran. On your Visual Basic > page you might have a snippet about how to create an array of integers. > This might be a great place to insert a hyperlink to the equivalent > operation on the Fortran page. And maybe another hyperlink to an online > Visual Basic reference. > > With respect to your lectures, I don't have enough of a feel for how you > work or what you want to achieve. But you will have realised that the > notebook/section/page arrangement is essentially hierarchical, which is a > great way to organise information. Hyperlinks complement that arrangement > by letting you "punch through" the hierarchy where it's appropriate. It's > another way of moving around your "web" of information. > > Simple as that. Only you will know whether that is useful for you. > > Sorry I can't really be more specific than that. > > SteveT > >