Comments on: GTD & OneNote

By: Marty

Marty — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 21:05:49 +0000

In reply to Wendy. What a great idea! It works perfectly and looks great, too. I'll certainly share this with others.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:19:34 +0000

I create a Table of Contents page as the first page of my ON Book. It helps if you have a lot of data already set up in ON

In a blank page, right click an area and select Link. Select the first section of your book. I have sections as projects.
This places a hyperlink directly to your section. Under this I add a one line comment “status” about the project, maybe my next step. Continue until you have all of your sections set up like a table of contents. You can quickly see status at a glance for all of your projects and to dive deeper just click the link.

By: brad

brad — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:41:06 +0000

Ryan,

you say you mindmap in ON… how exactly do you do this? An outside tool and then paste the link? My current mindmap tools are freemind, mindmanager, and the brain. I would love to incorporate that directly into ON.

Thanks
Brad

By: Leigh

Leigh — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:37:22 +0000

Ryan,

Nice post. I’ve been using the GTD add-in for Outlook for a while and have been using ON for PSM. I’ve begun having my team start using it as a centralized documentation repository and for the benefit of Outlook integration.

One of the things I’m struggling with is the use of “Projects” in the GTD add-in. I would rather have them in ON. I think that I should just put my bigger projects in ON and keep my smaller “more than one action” projects using the add-in. Any ideas, comments?

Thanks, Leigh

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:14:20 +0000

@John – synching using a USB flash drive is exactly what I do! The fact that I can work so easily offline is such a bonus.

By: John Miehler

John Miehler — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:23:08 +0000

OneNote has even the possibility to sync via USB-stick – very convenient, so I can use the data at home and in the office.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:08:21 +0000

@Alf – I have submitted another article on OneNote to GTDTimes —- I’m told they will publish it within a month or so. Stay tuned.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:02:27 +0000

@scamp – Curio could be worth considering for you. Supports mindmapping etc. and can consolidate tasks across projects.

By: Alf

Alf — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:12:34 +0000

Great stuff Ryan
Really enjoyed the read and are now using Onenote. Do you have an update on when you might be sharing more of your wisdoms.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:33:13 +0000

@Heidi – what version of OneNote do you have? When I installed OneNote 2007, the print to OneNote was automatically installed. Maybe you already have it. Just go to any file and go “file – print”. Now instead of choosing to print to your printer or to pdf, you should see “print to onenote”.

The same goes for the email-to-onenote. If you use MS Office 2007 you should see a OneNote icon that allows you to send your active email message sent to onenote.