On this main page, I created a timeline of their life. I think I've finally figured it out.Įach of my ancestors now gets a page in OneNote under their surname. I adore Legacy and recommend it to anyone who wants to listen, but I don't like using it for proof statements, research logs, or research plans, so in 2010 I began using OneNote for this, but I still felt like I was missing something for both tracking and noticing oblivious holes in my research.
Since over the past few years I restarted my genealogy by creating a new database in Legacy and re-entering all of my research to make sure it was properly sourced and that I wasn't missing anything, this became a continuation of that. I already knew that Caroline Pointer had awesome videos on OneNote, so I started there and then started playing around. I began by looking online and seeing how other genealogists used it.
USING TEMPLATES IN ONENOTE 2016 UPDATE
It turns out if you're going to present on something, having information for screenshots is a necessity, so I needed to update my database.Īnd I am so thankful that I did.
USING TEMPLATES IN ONENOTE 2016 HOW TO
I was allowed to pick my own topic and since I have been using OneNote for my genealogy and wanted to figure out how to use it better, I chose that. Part of this started when I was asked to speak to the Genealogy Interest Group of the Central New York Genealogical Society for February. Over the past 6 months I have been getting back into my personal genealogy after a few year relative absence. When the template is saved it’s important to save it in the correct location so it will show up in the dialog when you create a new OneNote Book. Placing the template in the correct directory The last option is important because otherwise the current section is saved as a template and we want the whole book.Next choose the third radiobutton which states “current notebook”.In the combobox choose the option: OneNote Single File Package (*.onepkg)
So go to the option and here is where you have to make two seperate choices before you click save. Well in this case you do have to make a seperate save to create a template from your OneNote book. Simple as can be but the goal here is to show you how you can use it as a template.Īs you know OneNote saves everything directly so you don’t have to save anything. For every application i have a seperate tab. Create sections add everything you need.įor my sample i created a simple book called Blog where i write my blog documents. If you use the Send to OneNote function and have the online notebook open in OneNote 2016, the page will sync down to. Remember that it has to become a template so create pages where you describe what to expect from the user. So here we go.Ĭreating the OneNote Book and Saving it as a TemplateĬreate your own OneNote book just the way you like it. What i mean is that we want to create a whole onenote book as designed by the user. Sure enough you can make quick templates but often that resembles the current section you are using. It was hard to find how you actually do this so i decided to describe the steps in this article. As youre writing emails or other things on. When I started using OneNote i quickly felt the need of creating my own OneNote book template. If youre using OneNote 2016, there is one advantage to the desktop app compared to the counterpart available on the Microsoft Store or MacOS App Store.
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