OneNote for research 6 tips for utilising the power of OneNote
1) Use Researcher to search and record information Research and add content to your page (Note: Researcher uses Bing to pull in the appropriate content from the web and provide structured, safe and credible information.)
On the Insert tab, choose Researcher.
In the search box, type a keyword for the topic you are researching and press Enter. The Results pane shows a list of sources you can use in your notes.
Choose a topic in the Results pane to explore in detail.
Select the text in the source and choose Add to add only text to your document.
Tap the plus sign in the upper-right corner to add an image and the text to your notes.
2) Send to OneNote You can copy and paste PowerPoint slides, .pdfs, word docs etc into OneNote and start taking notes right on top. Anything that you can print to a printer, you can also “Print to OneNote”. Just print something how you normally would, but instead of choosing a printer choose the option, “Send to OneNote.” OneNote will open and ask you where you want to send your printout – super helpful! You can also use the “Send to OneNote” Tool icon in your toolbar. If you don’t already have it, you can download it. Use it to take screenshots of websites and notes and send them directly to your clipboard. That way, you can select any part of the screen, and then paste wherever you want.
3) Colour Coding Its great to have notes looking nice, but its also good to do it to make information easier to find. Use the different pen options in OneNote for different types of notes. Keep it consistent, so everything is always easily identifiable. Green highlight: important terms or key words. Yellow highlight: definitions or important sentences. Pink highlight: anything that you need to follow up on, review, or ask the teacher or facilitator about. Blue highlight: when the teacher says this will be part of an assessment. Blue pen: for circling equations or other important main ideas.
4) Immersive Reader The Immersive Reader is a super cool feature that you can get in multiple products, not just OneNote. It basically takes any text you have on a page and “immerses” you in it, full screen. You can change lots of viewing settings like color, font, and size. A good feature is the “Read Aloud” that will read you your text. Use it to proofread essays, because you always catch awkward phrases when you hear it out loud.It is also useful for Languages learning. It can break words into syllables, parts of speech, has a picture dictionary, and more!
5) Search Because all your notes should be in OneNote, being able to search through them all is essential. You can search in a specific page, section, and even notebook for any words, even if they’re handwritten. You can also search right from your phone in an instant.
6) Office Lens and OneNote Microsoft's Office Lens app on iOS and Android (and Windows Phone) can save images directly into OneNote sections, which is a good way of capturing whiteboards, presentations, ahnd written notes, visual notetaking and documents. (The Office Lens feature is also built into OneNote on iOS and Android, so you can snap photos on your phone and have them show up in the right place in a note you're editing on your Mac or PC). Office Lens also allows you to take screenshots of articles you find online and import them to the Immersive Reader for playback.