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

OK, I didn’t research this well…

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

Screenshot from my PC

John Guin has post one of many new powertoys to come over the next week…

Table Sum Powertoy for OneNote

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• As promised, here is the first of a week’s worth of addins/powertoys for OneNote 2007. This addin will sum the columns of a table for you and add the new row to the bottom. It ignores non-numeric values in the column. It’s only requirement is that you need to click in a table to select it before hitting the Sum button (although it will prompt you for clicking the table if you need to).

   

  It does have some limitations. Inking (writing numbers in tables w/o converting them to text) is not supported, and tables within tables will cause problems.

  Here’s the link for the setup file: http://johnguin.members.winisp.net/Shared%20Documents/table_sums.zip

   

  Alternate location: http://elhombre.members.winisp.net/api/table_sums.zip

   

  And the source code: http://johnguin.members.winisp.net/Shared%20Documents/table_sums_Source.zip

   

  Alternate location: http://elhombre.members.winisp.net/api/table_sums_Source.zip

   

  Standard setup directions apply: ensure OneNote has exitied, run setup.exe (as an admin on Vista) and install for all users.

   

  Here it is in action. Before adding the columns:

  

   

   

  And after:

  

   

   

  (And there is a hidden preview for another addin to be released later this week in the images above. Can you find it?)

   

  There is a lot to do with this from here. Adding support to sum rows (relatively easy, but requires some new UI), performing other simple math routines, completely ignoring columns which have no numbers at all, perhaps applying boldface to the answers and similar tasks would all be appreciated. Moving this code over to the Object Model at www.codeplex.com/onom and extending it there is also a task on my radar.

   

  As always, let me know what you think.

   

  Questions, comments, concerns and criticisms always welcome,

  John

Last year Jamie Hill of StratusNine.com created an HTML Importer for OneNote. (found via http://del.icio.us/tag/onenote)

It allows you to save a web page (“complete” or as single page) and import it into OneNote 2007.

Also of interest is another version, just called “The Importer” which is for text and html files. More specifically, part of his PINE email export (via perl script) to OneNote (via The Importer). Check out all his OneNote posts.