Also referred to as:   Scrubber(.zip), Notebook cleaner and privatizer, OneNote 2010 Privatizer, OneNote 2010 Cleaner(.zip)

Gary Neitzke wrote this tool and here is his summary:

Purpose:

To remove author information and reset navigation points to make the notebook easily distributable.

Description:

This add-in will allow you to prepare a notebook for distribution. When started it will do several things:

1.) Reset all navigation points to the top most page of each section, and the top most section of each section group.

2.) Removes selection from content so the cursor will be in the title box

3.) Clears Author and LastModifiedBy items .

This tool also includes a pair of registry files to toggle cleaning the names on or off. If you only want to move focus to the top of each page in a notebook, double click the "DisableCleaning_Names.reg" file to leave the author names intact. To re-enable this functionality, click the "EnableCleaning_Names.reg" file. Cleaning the names is the default.

Use Cases:

First, suppose you are an administrator creating a section or some pages in a "New Employee Orientation" notebook which will be shared with all new employees at your company. OneNote keeps track of who modifies information on a page in shared notebooks (right click the "Outline Element" to see on the context menu who last modified it), but in this scenario, it is really irrelevant who typed the information. Wouldn’t it be nice to remove that data from the notebook?   (John Guin)

Another problem is a bit more subtle. If you add a lot of information to a page, focus (technically, the "insertion point," or location of the cursor) is remembered and focus goes to that location when anyone navigates to that page. For our scenario, you would probably want the focus to be at the top of each page by default, but since you probably typed the information at the bottom of the page most recently, focus is left at the bottom. The tedious way to move focus to the top of the page is to manually open each page and click at the top. (John Guin)

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Clip to OneNote is a free Firefox/Thunderbird add-on which helps to send text, pictures and other data to Microsoft Office OneNote with a single click.

Microsoft Office OneNote, is a software package for free-form information gathering. Firefox add-on for collecting data to OneNote (similar to that of IE) is missing, which is a handicap for IE users who want to switch to Firefox. Hence this add on tries to over come this and there by gives Firefox more flexibility and OneNote users an enriched experience with Firefox.

Follow Clip to OneNote on Facebook for news/updates/FAQs.

Don’t forget to set the path to your OneNote executable in the FF Add-On Options…

OneNote 2010: Download (Jeff’s original post)

OneNote 2010 introduced two new UI elements to deal with Subpages…

• Expand/Collapse chevron at end of Page Tab

• "Page Floatie"
• Plus the existing menus and shortcuts…

Jeff has created a PowerToy to help Expand/Collapse all the groupings, one group, plus added the Increase/Decrease Indent to the ribbon’s View tab.

• Usage Note: It uses the state of the first grouping when doing Toggle All Groups.
  • In the example below it would expand "PowerToys" and leave "Screen Clippings" expanded.

OneNote 2010: Download (Jeff’s original post)

OneNote 2007: Download (Jeff’s original post)

OneNote’s Template feature can be very handy for repetitive Checklists and Meeting Minutes. They can also be used to add background pictures and dress up your existing pages.

Jeff created a PowerToy to help manage your templates, since it can be somewhat cumbersome using the built-in workflow. It does not include the existing installed templates by default, but you probably don’t want the clutter of 100+ templates anyways.

Example usage for a Deacon’s Meeting…

• Use the "Formal Meeting Notes", add all possible attendees, insert church logo, save as Template.
• At start of meeting, just create a new page and insert your template. Remove non-attendees.
• At end of meeting, do a Save As… PDF.
• Next Meeting, just copy over any open issues or agenda items

Another Example for Daily To Do List…

• Create a page from one of the Planners.
• Customize to your workflow.
• Add links to common notebooks, shortcuts, and repetitive tasks.
• Save as New Template using PowerToy

OneNote 2010: Download (Jeff’s Original Post )

OneNote 2007: Download (Dan’s Original Post )

Counts the number of words, characters (with and without spaces), outlines, paragraphs and ink words on a page.

2010 Version: (Images from Jeff’s Blog)

2007 Version: (images from Dan’s Blog)

OneNote 2010: Download (John’s Original Post )

Similar PowerToy for 2010: Download (Jan’s Original Post)

OneNote 2007: Download (Dan’s Original Post )

John Guin provided an updated version of Sort Sections for 2010…

Similar PowerToys:

1. Dan also wrote a Sort Pages for 2007 (download), but it does not yet appear to have been updated for 2010.

2. OneNote 2010 Sort Utility is a stand-alone application, but will sort Pages as well…

Canvas was recently updated to support Windows XP and Office 2010…

Canvas for OneNote allows you to navigate and edit notebooks in a new way by providing a high-level canvas-view of all your content. The prototype lets you zoom and pan around; view and organize content in new ways; add new pages right where you want them; and even locate pages in a timeline view.

http://www.officelabs.com/projects/canvasforonenote

Send text, pictures to Microsoft Office OneNote with a single click.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12003#

You can collect data while browsing by selecting the part and clicking the "Clip to

Onenote" option which is available in three places. First at your right click context menu, second in the edit menu. Third is optional and can be added to the tool bar as an icon. By default it is not visible, but you can make it visible by right clicking on the menu bar, chose customize and then click and drag the "Clip to Onenote" icon to the desired location in your tool bar.
As per user request, shortcut key is added in version 2.0 to access easily. Two shortcuts are available. First one is Alt+Ctrl+L or you can access from edit menu by pressing Alt+E and when edit menu pops out Press L

 

AdminID Note: It also works in Thunderbird!

OK, I didn’t research this well…

http://desktop.xiipy.com/onenote/

Screenshot from my PC

From John Guin…

Task Requests from OneNote Meeting Notes powertoy

The “Week of OneNote 2007 Powertoys” continues…

One of the most frequent requests we hear for new OneNote functionality is “more integration with Outlook Tasks.”  Frustratingly, it always seems like no two people agree on what this means.  A few users have wanted a method to assign tasks to others during meetings.  The scenario is something like Alice and Bob meet, Alice takes notes on the meeting and wants to assign some of the action items to Bob.  Today I present an addin to integrate this functionality into OneNote.

This will add a task request button to the Outlook Tasks toolbar in OneNote.  You can enable that toolbar via the View | Toolbars | Outlook Tasks menu command.  If you are in a meeting notes page, you can click that icon to create a task request with this functionality:

1. It will have the TO: line populated with the attendees of the meeting
2. The original body of the message will be added to the body of the task request
3. Any tagged text will be added to the body of the task request.

Since the task request will be sent, there is nothing to link it back to in Outlook.  I’ve seen a few variations of this which use the name of the recipient as the To: field, but this approach doesn’t depend on that rigid of a notebook naming scheme.  And since items 1 and 2 above come from the meeting notes table, you will get odd behavior if you use this on a non-meeting notes page.

Example:  here is a weekly meeting I have with Mike Tholfsen:

And here is the resulting task request:

Here is where to install it:

http://johnguin.members.winisp.net/Shared%20Documents/TaskRequestFromMeetingNotes.zip

Or

http://elhombre.members.winisp.net/api/TaskRequestFromMeetingNotes.zip

And the source files:

http://johnguin.members.winisp.net/Shared%20Documents/TaskRequestFromMeetingNotes_source.zip

Or

http://elhombre.members.winisp.net/api/TaskRequestFromMeetingNotes_source.zip

Let me know what you think!

Questions, comments, concerns and criticism always welcome,

John Guin