OneNote 2010 Sort Utility

Apr 24, 2012

These days, I live and die by OneNote.  I read a ton of technical blogs and come across a number of great scripts and when I do, I save them to OneNote.  I take notes from meetings in OneNote and I even save videos and webcasts that I feel are especially pertinent to what I do in OneNote.  I have a ton of notebooks in OneNote each with a bunch of sections and pages (in fact, my OneNote notebooks are about 15GB in size!).  But the problem I have always had was that unless I wanted to search through my OneNote notebooks (which, I have to say, Microsoft certainly has included a very capable search functionality in this product), it was hard to find specific things because there didn’t seem to be a way to sort your OneNote sections and pages; basically, they just showed up in the order you created them unless you wanted to manually sort them (but who has the time for that!).

This was a problem until I came across this little lifesaver tool that makes keeping my OneNote notebooks tidy and in order.  It is a little program called the “OneNote 2010 Sort Utility.”  You can read more about this little golden nugget here.

If you decide that this little free utility might make your life easier, you can download it here.

And by the way, if you are using Microsoft Office 2010 Professional and you haven’t tried OneNote 2010 to organize your life (or at least your personal life). I strongly recommend giving it a spin. At first, it may seem a little daunting, just like writing your first SSIS package, being stared at by that blank screen. But, rest assured, there is help out there and a fairly active community of users. Once you understand it’s metaphor to a physical binder (if you are my age, you might even insert “Trapper Keeper” hereJ), with notebooks for different subjects and then sections within each notebook and then pages within the sections and the fact that you can actually print documents to OneNote 2010 as well as attach any kind of file, it becomes one of those tools that is hard to live without. In fact, it integrates so well with Outlook that if you have OneNote installed, your Outlook meetings will have a OneNote button on them and clicking that creates a page that contains all of the information from the Outlook invitation and then lets you take meeting notes. I could go on and on and, in fact, have because I intended this blog post to really only be about this OneNote 2010 Sort Utility, but OneNote is, unfortunately, one of those things that I am quite passionate about because it has saved my bacon a number of times. At any rate, if you don’t use OneNote or want to know how to use OneNote, here are some links to get you started (some of these might apply to OneNote 2007, which some of you may still be on, but the concepts generally also apply to OneNote 2010):

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chris_pratley/archive/2009/03/10/i-heart-onenote.aspx

http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-onenote/

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote-help/getting-started-with-onenote-2010-HA010370233.aspx

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote-help/basic-tasks-in-onenote-2010-HA101829998.aspx

http://www.onenotepowertoys.com/

 


 

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