Create Your First Note

Quick reference

• 00:04 Let's make our first note in OneNote.
• 00:07 So I'm going to click onto the OneNote icon.
• 00:11 Now when you first go into OneNote, you'll be in the default notebook.
• 00:15 Now, of course, you can create other notebooks, but
• 00:18 right now we're in the default notebook.
• 00:20 So I'm going to come over here and
• 00:21 click from the pull-down where it says Notebooks.
• 00:23 And if you have different ones, you can open them up there.
• 00:27 I can add a new notebook there.
• 00:29 But you should have something that's called Quick Notes.
• 00:32 And then here we are on a blank page.
• 00:35 So usually I'll give the page a title.
• 00:37 So I'll say, My First Note here as a title.
• 00:40 And notice how those shows up as a page title over here on the right hand side.
• 00:48 Now you can really click anywhere on the page and just start to type.
• 00:52 So I'll type in my name, for example.
• 00:57 And let's say I type in my city.
• 01:03 And I'm here in the USA.
• 01:08 So now notice how you see that box, well, the box is actually called a container.
• 01:14 So later on I'll show you how to merge the containers, and how to split them, and
• 01:18 those kind of things.
• 01:19 Well, you can just click anywhere else on the page, and
• 01:22 just start to type in something.
• 01:23 So let's say I take a phone call.
• 01:26 And then I'm talking to a guy named Dave.
• 01:29 And let's say I want to have Dave's phone number.
• 01:32 I'm just recording it here in OneNote.
• 01:38 And then I have that, and then that made its own separate container.
• 01:42 So I want to show easily, you can move the containers.
• 01:47 I can just move my mouse to that container and
• 01:49 get the icon that looks at the four arrows, then I can just drag it around.
• 01:54 All right, so you can see we can drag that anywhere on the page.
• 01:58 So I can just click anywhere else.
• 01:59 You could have as many containers on that page that would actually fit.
• 02:03 So it's not like Microsoft Word.
• 02:06 Microsoft Word, you pretty much have to follow the order of the page, and
• 02:10 I can't really put anything in the middle of the page like I can here.
• 02:14 But here I can just click anywhere and start to type and
• 02:18 it makes another container.
• 02:20 So let's say I'm on another phone call and I'm talking to Phil.
• 02:25 And Phil gives me his phone number.
• 02:32 All right, so
• 02:33 I could just kind of move that around to a different section by dragging it.
• 02:39 So let's say I wanted a to do list.
• 02:41 So I'll just click over here, and we'll make another container.
• 02:44 I'll type in To Do List.
• 02:49 Now, there'll be another video about how to make something specifically into
• 02:53 a bullet list or
• 02:54 a number list, but I'm just going to click on the bullet icon up here on the home menu.
• 02:59 So let's say I have to make copies,
• 03:04 Distribute copies, To the staff.
• 03:14 Ask for comments on the copies.
• 03:19 Collect comments.
• 03:28 After I collect the comments, maybe I want to analyze the information.
• 03:35 And then very quickly, I made a very quick to do list.
• 03:40 And, of course, that's just one of those containers, and
• 03:42 I could just move that around anywhere I needed to.
• 03:45 So really, you can just click anywhere on the page.
• 03:48 And then you can start to type, that would make another container.
• 03:51 I can move the containers around by dragging them around like that.
• 03:55 And then later on we'll see how to merge the containers and how to split them, and
• 03:59 these kind of things.
• 04:01 So then if you look, I can add more pages to this particular notebook.
• 04:06 You see where it says Quick Notes over here?
• 04:09 That's really a section of the notebook, so
• 04:12 later on I'll show you how to add more sections and more pages.
• 04:17 By the way, it saves automatically, so I don't have to worry about saving it.
• 04:21 Even under the File menu, there's not really a save option,
• 04:25 it saves automatically.
• 04:27 And now we just completed our first note.

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