hi there jamie here today at teachers tech hope you're having a great day today today
i'm continuing on with my onenote app for desktop series and i'm going to be specifically looking at
different features essential features to help you get more out of your onenote experience
i'm going to go ahead and open up my onenote app and i just want to point out the version that i'm
using here so as i open it up this one right here onenote app is the one i'm going to be talking
about the features on today onenote for windows 10 i have different videos on using that one
over the course the next year you are going to see microsoft merge their onenote versions into
one so that will be a lot less confusing if you're looking to learn more about
this onenote app i have a beginner's tutorial that i'll put a link down below
in the description and up above in the card but i'm going to go ahead and open up this one here
and then we can start talking about some of these great features that it has in it everything in
this video will be timestamped so if you want to look down below in the description you can
look the list of features and then just click on the time and jump to that part of the video
so let's get started with the first uh feature and that is using tags and this
is a super powerful part of using microsoft onenote and keeping organized so in this
case here i just made a example uh onenote some sections and pages about maybe planning a trip
and i'm going to add some tags to these so let's say this right here this is something that's going
to be important it's a link to a tour that i want to do the tags if you notice right up top here i
have different tabs i have i have a to do tag here but if i drop down right here i have a list of
different ones that i can add so if i go ahead and add important to this i have the star like this
so maybe uh here's a one with a video on it i can tag this one differently maybe i want to say this
is a movie to see and i'll just remind myself that i'm placing videos in like this i could go
to different places you can see there's some tags uh on this one here a week ago uh maybe there's a
book you want to read this one looks like it's on the wrong page but if there's a book there's even
a tag for that so you can add a book tag so the tags are nice and everything but the where the
part where it becomes powerful is is when you go to find your tag so what i mean by that is if you
go ahead and click find tags now it gives you this list here of all the different places you have
tags you can see that there's from a book to read there's ideas there's important ones movie to see
so if i go ahead and click to this one the idea one it brings me to that page so just imagine
as you're using onenote more and more uh and you get uh maybe tens of pages or hundreds of pages
using that tagging can save you a lot of time if you look at the list too if you go down to the
very bottom you can see you can do customized tags in this case so if you want to customize your own
and you can remove the tags also right from this point too so taking advantage of the tags
is i think an essential part of onenote and probably one of the things to get get yourself
using quite a bit so this next feature is very easy and quick to show here's my example this is
just an image right here so i took this from the internet just a brochure it has text in it as you
can see i can quickly pull the text out and paste it watch this if i go ahead and right click i have
copy text from picture so i'm just going to choose that and i could go to a different page
if i wanted to but right on this page at this spot here i'm just going to go paste ctrl v
and look at that i pulled the text from this picture right here so that's just a super quick
feature that i wanted to show you that microsoft onenote how that works a very important feature of
microsoft onenote is the ability to share so you can collaborate with a person or a group
of people but you need to be thinking about how you're sharing and i just want to talk about this
feature here now if i take a look at this planning a trip one that i have this notebook trip planning
this one actually is saved locally on my computer that poses a problem uh to share out with people
if i wanted to be working in live time so let me explain this so if i go to a different
notebook like this jamie at work one this has nothing in it here but if i go to file here
here's my different notebook information this one is actually saved on my one drive so when i i
created it it it saved on my onedrive so it allows me to share quickly so what i mean by this is if i
go to invite people to this notebook now i already have some people invited i could add some more
people if i wanted to or i could remove them so if i right click remove that person's gone just kathy
has edit with also me that on this notebook here if i wanted to add a person back i can just type
in their name up top and give them can view or can edit i'll give this person can view and then just
hit share and then i have three people that we could be collaborating with this notebook based
on the permissions that they have so that makes it really easy to do that if i go back here to info
just pointing out this one save in the cloud and i'm going to go back one more let a level
i could also right click on a section take a look at this copy link to this section if
i copy the link to this section and i went to let's say an email and i'm just going to
paste it in if i hover over you can see that this would give me a link to that person they
would need to be part of the sharing settings on it but maybe i had some meeting notes and i could
just be here's the here's the link today today's meeting notes and they click on it and open up in
onenote now also i can right click on a page so copy link to a page so you have some different
options when you're being when it's being shared in the cloud now what i would have to do though
with these other ones here like trip planning if i wanted to share this with
with other people i would need to move it so if you notice if i share on i'm going to hit share
to share this notebook you'll need to put it in onedrive or sharepoint i just want to point out
here that this one is saved locally if i uh just i'm going to hit browse here and this one is on
my computer you can see here now where i would need to move this one is to my onedrive here if
i hit browse if i take a look at this you can see here's my one notebook that i have that was shared
i would need to move that trip planning one over to my onedrive to be able to share i'd like the
ways that i showed you but one thing you could do here and this is something different and i'm going
to go to if i go and look at these different ones like trip planning here if i go to export
what i could do is select a page or section or a notebook and export it so i could export a page
and save it as you can see a dot one file here or a section or even i could package the whole
notebook and at that point if i did that i could send it to someone as a file or maybe
put in a usb stick if you didn't want to use the cloud to do this and then they could open
up and see all the information that they had and they could do whatever they want with it but you
wouldn't be working in live collaborative time so those are some sharing options that you have
with using microsoft onenote so if you want to make one of your sections a little bit more secure
you can add a password so how to do this if i went over one of these and we'll just say we'll stick
with this us trips one i'm going to right click on this and take a look at password protect this
section so i'm going to choose this and then we have password protection opens up here now what
i do is i need to set a password so i'm going to choose this i'll pick something super easy
but remember look at the caution underneath if you lose a forget the password onenote cannot recover
your data so make sure you know your password i'm going to hit ok now at this point i'm just
going to say keep existing backups here and i can lock all now so there's a shortcut ctrl alt and
l or i can just click here lock all now if i go over to my other sections you can see that i can
get into those fine but if i go back to this one if i hit enter at this point i'd have to enter
my password in and then it opens up if you want to remove your password go ahead and hit remove
and then just put your password in again and then there is no password to this one anymore
so take a look at the password protection to add a little bit more security to each section
so what i'm going to do now is install an add-in for microsoft onenote and i'm going
to install the learning tool so i'll give it just a few other options so i'll put the link
to this page down below in the description but at this point i can just go ahead and download this
and it's a kind of a quick install on it and if you don't like it you can go to your settings
and uninstall learning tools from there too but i'm going to go ahead get this installed
and i'm going to open up my onenote again and you're going to have a brand new tab on it
so if i look across my tabs now i have learning tools so i have a brand new tab and inside you
can see the ribbon right here immersive reader and dictate now i do want to point out that if i go to
view here immersive readers right here i've always had problems with mine connecting so if
i go ahead and select it it just spins around and around i'm going to exit out of this one
but now i'm going to go over to this section i have some text here if i go to my learning
tools and select immersive reader it picks up the text so what it does is it can read back the text
so it can go through and read text and then i can customize it to even even more by selecting
things from text size to spacing to font to themes whatever helps the person consume their
information uh in a in a more accurate way we can also uh go through and even break down things
like verbs and nouns in it and if the person's speaking too slow or too fast we can adjust it
through the voice speed or even pick a different person to hear a different voice on it now that's
immersive reader i do want to point out too take a look at this if i go to us trips remember that
picture that i pulled the text out of if i have this selected and i go to my immersive reader
it can pull the information out of there so if i scroll down it can read that text out of a
picture so this is all the text that was in there so even from a picture if i use immersive reader
it can do that the other thing that got added was dictate so i'm going to go to this last section
again this so what dictate allows me to do quickly and just as a quick example so dictate allows me
to dictate any notes that i want and you can see it get added quickly to the page that i'm on
so just like that so i turned it off but now i have this dictation right through here that
i've added so by adding the learning tools add-in it's i have these two things that are working for
me now and you can uh if you take a look i'm just gonna click and customize the ribbon and
i showed you this in my beginner's tutorial if we take a look at the add-ins now we have the
add-in right through here the learning tools that was installed and remember what i said you can go
to your settings and uninstall learning tools on your computer and it will remove it from onenote
if you're not interested in dictating notes to turn it into text you can record your voice too
if we look under insert and then take a look at the record audio here when you select this
right away it's going to start recording you can see the number going up here on mine when i want
to have it stopped i could hit stop and now i have a recording of my voice that i could go
back in and then i can go see playback i do have audio settings here if you needed to choose where
it was going to be recorded from but you can go back and test out your audio after you record
it just for those quick notes another powerful feature is the translate feature take a look
at the review tab up top and then translate right here so i'm going to go ahead and just
highlight this text right here about vancouver i have and select translate so when i select
this is it they're going to be it's based on the selected text so i could select it you can see
it opens up right here it's just english from english i could drop down i could pick
a different language so if i wanted it to turn it to french or german it quickly does this and
as soon as i hit insert it changes this over so if you speak german you can tell me how accurate
that translation was on this but you can go ahead and choose other languages very quickly to adapt
to any of these so take a look at this let me know in the comments down below if it is accurately
translating the languages over i find it works very quickly and you have lots of different
options to choose from with your translations so the last thing that i just want to show you for a
feature today just kind of a fun feature uh in this i'm just going to go to this section here
i'll close down this is just that we can take things that we write so uh ink to text if we go uh
to our draw right here it's ink to text is right here it's not showing up right
now because i don't have it selected so what i can do is to make my selection
around make sure everything's included in it and as soon as it's selected you can see that there's
ink to text so if i select it it turns text or it turns what i've written uh and turns it
into a title so it makes my handwriting your hand printing looks a lot better like that so
i hope you liked all these different features in using onenote there's still more to learn about
onenote and all the different things it could do i just thought this would be a nice step after my
my beginners onenote tutorial that i mentioned before and i'll put the link to it thanks for
watching this time on teachers tech i'll see you next time with more tech tips and tutorials