If there’s a key productivity tool out there, Microsoft is bound to build a competitor. You can use several OneNote recipes that will do tricks like sending iPhone screenshots to OneNote, forwarding important emails, and saving handwritten notes from other applications. There’s plenty of power behind the life-programming service known as IFTTT.
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There’s an app for Windows as well as Android and iOS, so you can snap the picture with any of your devices. With Office Lens, you can snap the picture and save it directly into one of your OneNote notebooks. OneNote is a great place to save everything for later, so you don’t have to worry about digging through your file system to track down the picture of that whiteboard brainstorming session. The Office Lens app will let you instantly save a photo to your OneDrive.
Once you’ve connected your OneNote account to Feedly, you’re able to save articles directly to one of your OneNote notebooks. Feedly Derek Walter/IDGĪn RSS reader may sound like something from a bygone era, but a tool like Feedly helps you stay atop of news and other online sources without getting lost in the chaos of social media. This process lets you find and clip what you need without bothering with the add-on extension. You can then clip the page directly into OneNote. On any webpage, touch the pen icon and you’ll be able to mark up the contents with a stylus, Surface Pen, finger, or even the mouse/trackpad. Microsoft's Edge browser may not be as popular as Chrome, but it offers its own deep level of integration with OneNote. Microsoft Edge integration Derek Walter/IDG The only caveat is that if you’re using some type of ad blocker you may need to disable it on that page. When you save an article, it can be stripped down to just the text, capture the entire page, or let you snip just a portion of it. Instead, if you want to read article later, hold onto it for research, or save a recipe, then get the OneNote Clipper for Chrome, Firefox, or Edge. OneNote Clipper Derek Walter/IDGīookmarking sites is a good way to forget about them a few days later. We’ve gathered together the most powerful ways to augment your OneNote experience no matter what device or third-party service you’re using. And with Microsoft’s cross-platform strategy, OneNote is available on every platform. OneNote also hooks into a ton of different services, so it’s easy to save everything from meeting notes to recipes and even emails to your digital notebook. That utility doesn’t end with the core features in the desktop and mobile apps, either. Microsoft OneNote can do just about anything to help you stay organized and productive.