Whenever you do online research with OneNote, you can use the OneNote Web Clipper to easily capture, edit, annotate, and share information. It’s free to use and it works with most modern Web browsers.
Install the OneNote Web Clipper
To set up the OneNote Web Clipper, do the following:
Follow the on-screen instructions that are displayed for the particular Web browser that you’re using.
If prompted, acknowledge any security messages to give OneNote Web Clipper permission to work with your browser.
To configure the OneNote Web Clipper, do the following:
In your browser, open any website, and then click the OneNote Web Clipper icon.
NOTE: The location of the OneNote Web Clipper depends on the browser you are using. For example, in Internet Explorer, it will appear on the Favorites bar.
In the purple popup window that appears, do one of the following:
Click Sign in with a Microsoft account if you want to use the OneNote Web Clipper with a personal account like Outlook.com, Live.com, or Hotmail.com. For best results, use the same account that you’re already using with OneNote.
Click Sign in with a work or school account if you want to use the OneNote Web Clipper with an account given to you by your work organization or school.
If prompted, confirm the requested application permissions for the OneNote Web Clipper. You can later change these application permissions at any time in your Account Settings.
Use the OneNote Web Clipper
The OneNote Web Clipper automatically detects the type of website content you want to capture — an article, a recipe, or a product page.
Open the page that contains what you want to clip to OneNote, and then click the OneNote Web Clipper icon.
In the small OneNote Web Clipper window, do any of the following (where available):
Click Full Page or Region if you want to capture the current Web page (or a selected region of it) to your notebook as a screenshot image. These options preserve the content you’re clipping in exactly the way it appears.
Click Article, Recipe, or Product if you want to save the current Web page to your notebook as editable text and images. When you select any of these options, you can use the buttons at the top of the preview window to highlight selected text, change between a serif and sans-serif font style, and increase or decrease the default text size.
Click the Location drop-down menu, and then select the notebook section where the clipped Web page should be saved. The list includes all notebooks that you have stored on your OneDrive account, including any shared notebooks. You can click to expand any notebook in the list to see its available sections.
Click Add a note if you want to give the captured information more context for later. This step is optional, but the additional note can be useful as a note or reminder to yourself (for example, “Follow up with Samantha about these product specs!"), or as a way to provide information to others who are reading it in a shared notebook (for example, "Hey everyone, check out this article I found!").
Click Clip to send the captured information to OneNote.
Ideas for using the OneNote Web Clipper
Not sure what to clip? Here are some ideas to get you started!
Travel — Clip all your travel research and trip planning from the Web, and add everything directly to OneNote.
Recipes — Gathering recipes for an upcoming party? Clip the best images and ingredient lists from your favorite recipe sites.
News — Capture import content from your favorite news sites to reference them later or to share them with friends.
Inspiration — Collect inspiring images and ideas from around the Web, and keep them in OneNote for easy lookup.
Research — Import relevant articles from the Web and save them to your research notebook for later reading.
Shopping — Make sure you always get the best deal when shopping online by clipping price lists and product pages.
New OneNote Web Clipper Can Show You the Way
When exploring a new city, perhaps the most frustrating thing in the world is having now idea where you need to go to get from A to B (especially when you're trying to find a castle in Budapest on a Sunday). This is especially painful when you don't have an international data plan for your smartphone. Luckily, the new OneNote Web Clipper extension creates a simple, efficient way to keep all your directions in one place.
To get started, download the OneNote Web Clipper extension for your browser (available on most modem browsers including Edge, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome). Once downloaded, simply clip any page you're on with a simple click from your browser window. You can clip regions:
Or full pages:
Or even an entire PDF:
Your clippings will automatically show up as a new page in your OneNote Section of your choice:
So before you take on the streets of Budapest, look up transit directions and clip them to your OneNote (I would recommend multiple far away and up close screenshots of the map as well). Sync your phone and you are good to go! The directions will be available on your OneNote page even without internet. Less hassle = happy traveling.
Working remotely is a great experience, but having your own workspace can be difficult to keep up with. Follow these helpful hints for making your home office feel less like a place to work and more like a place to create.
Staying organized
Cluttered desk = cluttered mind. Before you start getting to work, clean up your desk space to help you set a productive tone. Plus you won't be tempted to take a work-break to clean up your space so you can stay on-task all day.
Go paperless - OneNote
One of the best ways to de-clutter is by going (at least mostly) paperless. By using OneNote to jot down notes and Planner to organize your tasks, you can skip all the notebooks and to-do list post-it notes. Plus, you'll be doing your part to be a little more eco-friendly!
Inspiration
When you're traveling, one of the hardest things is being away from your home and loved ones. Keep pictures of them around your desk to make you feel a little less far away. For more decorative inspiration, try decorating with memoribelia from your travels. I try to collect a map from each place I go to hang as a collage on my wall instead of a typical Pink Floyd poster.
Relaxation
Having your office in the same room as your bed can make it harder to stop your work and destress before going to sleep. Keep your office space relaxed by adding some Zen - I love lighting some candles and I have a piece of bamboo to add a little life into the room (for a lot less money than fresh flowers).
Motivational music
Without all the hustle and bustle of working in an office, sitting at your home desk can seem pretty quiet. Find a good playlist that keeps you upbeat and motivated throughout the day to make remote work a little less lonely.
Skype
Even with crazy time differences, it is always possible to find a time to Skype your colleagues. Skype for Business makes you feel like you're a part of the team. Plus it's free of international charges that come with phone calls. Always make sure your voice is still heard.
Can't stay productive at home? Find a local coffee shop or library to study in! I found this one the other day that made me excited to come back and get to work:
Publish your OneNote Notebooks with Office365 and this helpful Sway!
I just started my next semester working remotely part-time while studying abroad in Marseille, France. Although my journey has just begun, I have already met many obstacles for working while abroad. Finding time, energy, and motivation to work when you first arrive in a new country is painfully difficult. Taking it slow the first few days is key, so after that you can pick rainy days or gloomy nights to cozy up in your apartment and buckle down for a few hours. Perhaps the biggest challenge so far has to be finding good WiFi. When traveling, reliable wi-fi is hard to find, and even harder to ask for if you don't speak the language. The good news is OneNote has come to my rescue!
Here's how to use OneNote without connecting to wifi:
Prepare
If you know you are going to be without wifi for a while, but you still need to get some work done, make sure you set up your OneNote ahead of time. Download documents you need from Outlook or SharePoint and add them to your OneNote. There is nothing worse than trying to get some work done and then realizing you don't have everything you need. Think of what you can do without wifi, such as writing posts, preparing topics for presentations, and editing images.
Organize
Make a To-Do List of things you need to get done with OneNote's check boxes. You can even set certain tasks as priorities. As I sat on the plane from Boston to Paris, I came up with a quick list of everything I can get done while traveling to and from anywhere:
Work - from literally anywhere!
Working without wifi might not be ideal, but hey a seven hour train ride is not ideal either. So make the most of both of them by using OneNote to start on any projects available to you. Even when I am sitting on the bus from school to go downtown or grocery shopping, I can use my OneNote mobile app to access everything my desktop OneNote has to offer. So if I'm on-the-go (without any data of course), I can instantly jot down blog ideas. And sometimes people watching on the bus is where I get the best inspiration.
Now I must go catch my train to Nice - au revoir!
Taking Office 365 to the College Campus
By Kelly Cronin
Before Office 365, I was using a $5 planner from Target, some Word documents, some Google Docs, a million Notes in my iPhone, and Five-Star Notebooks to take notes in class, stay "organized", and keep both my personal life and grades afloat. Although plenty of people had told me about cool note-taking tools, I was a stubborn college student that thought whatever I was doing was good enough. When I first started my internship with Managed Solution, I was taught how to use almost all of the Office 365 apps, which I never thought I would be using in my personal life. The more used to the apps I got, the more I realized how much they could help me outside of work too. Here's how Office 365 can be used for any college student looking to stay organized and productive:
Let's start with OneNote.
My boss was not exaggerating when she told me OneNote is life. I first used OneNote for school by keeping all my syllabi in one place. Before, I had to constantly re-download the syllabus for each class just to look at the class schedule, rules about assignments, and how to contact the professor. With OneNote, I keep all of this information in one place, both on my computer and my phone, so no matter where I am I can instantly check out the syllabus for any of my classes. OneNote lets you drag and drop files into a document, so you can click on the document, or you can choose to have the document uploaded as text, so you'll see exactly what comes from that document in your OneNote as text. I prefer to have both:
My study guides have gotten a major makeover thanks to OneNote. I re-type all my notes from class and any added points from lecture slides into OneNote to create the ultimate study guide, where I can easily bold, highlight, make tables, lists, and even add images into any of my notes. Since I can keep these in the same section as my other class notes and info, I don't have to keep track of a gazillion documents like with Google Drive. OneNote also has "tags" that can let me mark things as important, set up as a reminder, or create a check-box for a to-do list. The best part is while I'm walking over to my exam, I can pull up my study guide on my OneNote mobile app and do some last minute cramming.
Did I already mention you can take OneNote anywhere? When you need to print something, having a copy of your document wherever you go is pretty much every college student's life saver. For starters, almost none of us have an actual working printer (there are currently three broken printers sitting in my house), which I now consider a mythical creature at this point. This means we have to constantly send ourselves documents to print at the library right before class. When you already have a million things to do that week and you were up cramming all night for three exams, forgetting to send yourself your study guide is basically a given. Office 365 finally came up with the best solution to make sure your grades don't suffer from your brain overloads. OneNote can be accessed online with your Microsoft account. OneNote Online will automatically have all the notebooks and pages you have in your OneNote so you can access your notes and documents from any device. Instead of worrying about whether or not my file will open from my email, I have peace of mind knowing as long as I put something in my OneNote, I can access it from anywhere with OneNote Online.
Planner - Time to get organized.
Every college student knows the secrets to procrastination - pretend you're actually being productive even while putting off all of your assignments. One of the best is making lists of things you have to do (and then not actually do them until tomorrow). Planner in Office 365 gives you a simplified, satisfying way to keep up with all of your tasks. As the end of the semester gets busier and busier, I've been completely reliant on adding tasks into my Planner to make sure I keep track of absolutely every thing I have to do. To start, I set up different groups that organize what needs to be done:
As I create a new task, I can add notes about what needs to be done, set a date for when it needs to be done by, and make comments as I work on it. Adding details about all my tasks helps me look in one place and one place only for all I need to know about what to get done. For mass amounts of paperwork to fill out, I can add a checklist for each item, so I need what I've done already and how much more is left to do.
Ace presentations with Sway.
No matter what your major is, every semester you will create at least one presentation, typically with a group, to present to the class. Google slides are often the top choice for group projects, as just about everyone has a Gmail account to use and collaborate on the project with. But Google slides editing features are extremely limited. Minimal slide themes, limited font formatting options, and few visualization selections make each presentation seem almost, if not exactly, the same. Sway in Office 365 is an easy fix to sprucing up a presentation, and it is just as easy to use as Google slides or PowerPoint.
One of the best parts about Sway is it's complete customization. You can add different cards: Headers, Text, Image sliders, Image galleries (in multiple varieties), Videos, Tweets, Audio, and more. You can even embed a Sway within a Sway (yes that's Sway-ception). These can be grouped together by heading, so instead of having seven separate slides all relating to one topic, Sway can keep them all grouped together.
If you need a more eye catching color theme, or want to change the font and feel of the text throughout the presentation, use the Design feature:
Sway offers tutorials and guides on how to do just about anything the application has to offer. And since Sway can be used in Office 365 online, your presentation is automatically saved and can be accessed anywhere. Still not convinced? Check out one of my latest, interactive Sways:
Start getting professional on Word.
College isn't just about taking classes and passing exams (and beer pong). Starting your career often begins in college. With helpful professional templates on word, building a solid resume can be completely simplified. Choose from a variety of templates, from crisp and clean to creative and captivating. Inputting your information into the template is quick and easy, so you can worry more about what goes into your resume than how you need to format it.
If you're like me, you've probably applied to hundreds of part-time jobs and internships when you should be doing schoolwork. Needless to say, you need your resume on pretty much any device, whether it's to update your website link or to print from your friend's computer. When you use Word Online with Office 365, your work automatically saves as you make changes. This makes sure your documents don't get lost between sending yourself a million email attachments every time you switch devices. You can access your word files from anywhere, and make changes as needed. Update resumes and cover letters alike, without worrying about whether or not you've saved the latest version.
Making the most of Office 365.
Nobody says college will be easy, but Office 365 is here to help. When you start working on new classes, learn how to do your own laundry, and lose your voice at every Saturday football game, college can seem like a complete whirlwind. Use the Office 365 tools for education to keep track of everything going on in your life. Not only will you learn how to use tools for the modern workplace, Office 365 can help you stay on track to make sure college is the best four years of your life.
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Now Mac users can make the move from Evernote to OneNote
Since last March, we have helped Windows users import 71 million Evernote pages to OneNote. Following the great feedback we received, we want to help even more people make the move. Today, we are launching the OneNote Importer tool for Mac. You may feel hesitant about moving all your notes from a place you know to a new online home. Don’t worry, the Importer tool makes moving day easy.
OneNote lets you work the way you want. You can get your ideas down in a range of ways that include typing, inking, embedding videos, recording audio or clipping web content. If you prefer to use paper and pen, you can even scan that content with OneNote to make it digital, searchable and available from your phone to your laptop. We’ve heard that many Evernote users rely heavily on their clipper. OneNote has a great clipper for all major browsers, available for free at OneNote.com/clipper. We upgrade it all the time, and you can read the OneNote July roundup for the latest updates.
OneNote lets you sync all your notes across all your devices—for free. It is part of the Office family and works seamlessly with Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint to help you stay organized, collaborate and get more done. Following Evernote’s recent price changes—their Premium offer ($69.99/year) is now the same price as Office 365 Personal ($69.99/year). Office 365 gives you OneNote, plus all the Office apps you know and love that are always up to date, and 1 TB of cloud storage.
How to migrate your notes from Evernote
To get started migrating your Evernote notes to OneNote, you will need:
A Mac with OS X 10.11+ (El Capitan). Once your Evernote notes are imported, they’ll sync across all your devices, including PC, iOS and Android, as well as web browsers—for free.
To speed up the migration process, it is recommended you have Evernote for Mac installed from the Evernote website. Sign in to Evernote for Mac with your Evernote account and make sure your latest notes are synced before importing.
Watch this short video to see how easy it is to use the OneNote Importer tool:
Download the OneNote Importer tool and visit our Support page for more information and step-by-step instructions. And don’t forget to send us feedback and ask questions at OneNote UserVoice or tweet us at @msonenote. The OneNote team wants to do everything possible to help you feel confident about choosing to try OneNote.
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Back-to-school updates for the OneNote Class Notebook app, and the add-in is now generally available
As many teachers and schools prepare for the 2016/2017 school year, it is a great time reflect on the excitement that many teachers and schools have shared with us over the past year as they began using OneNote Class Notebooks the first time.
We heard from teachers all around the world about the enthusiasm that has been bubbling around this new way of working. We heard from a teacher in Florida who told us how class notebooks have changed her life, a teacher from Wales who describes his school’s journey finding OneNote Class Notebooks and a Lithuanian teacher who uses class notebooks as an ePortfolio. In the UK, we heard from a school that declared OneNote has revolutionized the way they work. We had the chance to meet many of you in June at ISTE, including a teacher who told us the story of how class notebooks and her excitement for them inspired her to reconsider retirement and keep teaching this year. We have also continued listening and working with teachers, who have been the inspiration for the next set of improvements that we are rolling out today.
Improvements to the Class Notebook app based on teacher feedback
Today, we are rolling out new features and improvements across 44 languages and 63 markets. These 2016 back-to-school improvements will help save teachers valuable time in the classroom as well as allow OneNote Class Notebooks to be even more organized.
On the homepage of the Office 365 Class Notebook app, we updated the old Get Notebook Links button to include the new Manage notebooks button, and all of the improvements can be found under this button.
By clicking the Manage notebooks button, a teacher can see all of his/her class notebooks on one page with an expanded set of capabilities, including:
•Rename student sections—If you want to rename any student sections, click the pencil icon and type the new name of the section. Be sure to press Save after adding the student sections.
•Add section—To distribute a new section to all students, simply click the Add section button. Be sure to press Save after adding the student sections.
•Enable Teacher-Only section group—The Teacher-Only section group is a private space where only the teacher can see what is inside—students cannot see anything. To add a Teacher-Only section group to your class notebook, click the Enable Teacher-Only section group link. Co-teachers also have access into the Teacher-Only section group.
•Lock Collaboration Space—Enabling this feature makes the Collaboration Space read-only (or locked down) to disallow any students from editing. You can move the switch between a locked and unlocked state.
•Open—Clicking this link opens the class notebook.
•Link to the class notebook—Provides easy way to copy the class notebook link to share with others.
Class Notebook add-in is moving from preview to general availability
The Class Notebook Add-in Preview is the result of feedback and collaboration from teachers and school staff, whose input helped build these new tools. We’ve seen an amazing response to the add-in for our OneNote 2013 and 2016 teachers. In June, we also added many of the capabilities to our OneNote Mac app. Today, we are moving the OneNote Class Notebook add-in from preview to generally availability (GA). This means that IT admins and school staff should feel confident deploying the Class Notebook add-in broadly across a district, and it is officially now “Version 1.” In addition to announcing general availability, we all have some new updates detailed below:
•GA in 44 languages and 63 markets.
•Edmodo assignment and grade support.
•Firefly Learning assignment and grade support.
•Improved help and feedback options.
•For IT admins—Group Policy support for prepopulating LMS and SIS information. •New group policy deployment page: Class Notebook add-in group policy.
•General Download Center information.
To manually update your add-on just click the Update button that should appear if you have an older version of the add-in. This will download the latest version and also install the GA version.
We hope you are excited to try out the 2016 back-to-school improvements! The OneNote Class Notebook team will continue listening to teacher and school staff feedback. As usual, please reach out to us on Twitter @OneNoteEDU or drop us a line at OneNoteEDU@microsoft.com.
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