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Here is a Macro that will do this in onenote which is far better than a wiki page in sharepoint in my opinion, and every site already comes with a notebook.

https://getonetastic.com/macroland&id=01C7C254D45E462CB24B3246853B3032

There are a number of good apps listed in this thread but I'm not sure all of them address the question of touchscreen apps. Here are my suggestions.

• MS Whiteboard. This is tool I use often with my team especially with the latest version that allows for multiple people to share a whiteboard simultaneously.

• POT Player. This is more for Surfacebook users in tablet mode but works great for general use. VLC and other video players lack good touch control. POT Player works amazingly well when working in tablet mode. [https://potplayer.daum.net/]

• Office 2016 Apps. Word, PowerPoint, Excel have good pen and touch control when they are being used in presentation mode. e.g. If you're presenting a PowerPoint (Excel and Word as well) to a room of people PP allows you to draw on the slide with or without saving, hold your finger on the screen for a "laser" tool, highlight a pie chart number, write notes, etc.

• MS OneNote. I use OneNote more than any other program except Outlook. If you are a heavy user, or plan on being, I would suggest. Onetastic (free) and maybe Gem for OneNote if the features fit your needs. [https://getonetastic.com/] [https://www.onenotegem.com/]

OneCalendar has also been updated.

OneCalendar Version 1.17.3 - 2016-06-20

• Updated branding
• Binary is now code signed

Onetastic Version 3.0.0 - 2016-06-20

• Completely new Macro Language similar to modern programming languages with concepts like rich expressions, comments and operators.
• Binaries are now code signed
• Download Macros menu now displays all available macros

Documentation for macros: https://getonetastic.com/docs/

Source: https://getonetastic.com/changelog

You can create links manually. OR you can get the free add-in Onetastic that gives you several options to create a TOC and other things - they call them macros. The free version of Onetastic lets you download 20 macros and use them 500 times, which is all I've ever needed.

There's also a way to make a table of contents and THEN create the pages and sections from that, but I can't remember how to do it. You can search Mike Tholfsen's YouTube or TikTokand find it though, along with lots of other neat tips and tricks.

There is a semi-freeware add-on for OneNote called Onetastic (https://getonetastic.com/) that adds a macro capability to OneNote. It seems to be free to use (with an occasional suggestion to purchase). It comes with a large macro library, and I believe at least one of the macros will justify text.

The macro language is fairly easy to figure out and, if you pay, I suspect you get more documentation than that included with the free version.

I hacked a macro that makes a weekly planner. I'd like to figure out how to hack it further so that it automatically makes the generated line items a bulleted list, but I have not figured out how to do that yet.

I have no affiliation with the team behind Onetastic; I stumbled upon it by accident.

Well, yes, onetastic is a plug-in which supports macros. It's pay software but free if you don't use macros often. Unfortunately it doesn't say what the threshold is.

https://getonetastic.com/pricing

https://getonetastic.com/
Onetastic is an OneNote Addin which can do a lot of stuff. You can create macros or download some in their "macroland". Maybe you'll find your answer with that. (it is free although has some premium features)

Hi Cojaman

Yes you can remove authors from your notebooks using the onetastic add-in which can be downloaded from getonetastic.com

once installed you can download a variety of macros one of which allows you to remove authors per section.

you can see and download more macros from https://getonetastic.com/macroland I hope this helps.

James

I use the Onetastic macro Resize and space. It worked great on a 200+ page PDF. I used to try using only vanilla OneNote, but I've found Onetastic is needed to fix some pretty simple omissions on Microsofts' part

Depending on what you're looking for, some general OneNote resources in that direction:

5 Tips for Using OneNote as Your To-Do List

Turn Outlook into a Project Management Tool with OneNote Integration

Un/Complete Tasks

Have a look at Onetastic it is an add-on for the desktop version on Windows. It has a large variety of Macros that might do the job for you. It's been a while since I've used it but at one time it also made writing macros easier so if there isn't something there for you. You might be able to make it fit.

https://getonetastic.com/

It allows for downloading of really useful macros that make OneNote heaps better. The best thing though is the calender. It gives you a calendar view that shows which notebooks pages were created and edited on a specific date across all of the notebooks connected to your OneNote. I am not doing a good job of explaining it here, but download and have a play, super useful.

It allows for downloading really useful macros that make OneNote heaps better. The best thing though is the calendar. It gives you a calendar view that shows which notebooks pages were created and edited on a specific date across all of the notebooks connected to your OneNote. I am not doing a good job of explaining it here, but download and have a play, super useful.

I use OneNote 2016 on Windows. I purchased a license to Onetastic. https://getonetastic.com/

I look through the existing macros with sorting capability (pages, sections)and download some to try. I find a notebook that isn't mission-critical and try out the different macros until I find one that works the way I need.

Someone not so long ago suggested Onetastic -- bunch of macros to expand OneNote functionality : https://getonetastic.com/

It also provides macro(s) for some calendar options.

Give it a try :)

However you decide to organize your journal, please take a look at Onetastic (free to use)
Onetastic has some macros that will prefill monthly (etc) pages.. Check out https://getonetastic.com/macroland/calendar (diary, planner, ....)

I use it to pre-populate journalling sections

Nice page. I'm not sure how tags could help or what the goal is. Tags let us do things like search for content that has a particular tag.

Maybe you mean you want a way to make vocabulary words - such as lipids - not look the same as other words. If all you want to do is change the formatting of someone words, maybe a Onetastic macro exists that you could modify. It would have to know which words you want changed. Here is an example of a macro that changes the color of words based on criteria, such as selected words.

If that didn't do what you wanted, maybe you could modify the macro to make it do what you want. If you had a list of vocabulary words, a program such as Word could change the color of words in that list. That would require a Word macro. Or, maybe you mean something else when you say "tag words."

OneNote is 100% the best campaign management tool. Check out OneTastic, a OneNote addon that lets you record and download macros. Automatically populating a Table of Contents for the entire notebook is an absolute gem- I can't stress enough how much that addon helped my campaigns become more organised.

As for VTT, I heard great things about Foundry but haven't used it myself. There's apparently a steep learning curve but I have DM friends who swear it's the best thing since ever. I personally use Roll20. I like it but it has its limitations; they really are behind the times in many of their development features- I'm honestly too invested in Roll20 with all my NPC sheets and maps and dynamic lighting to switch to another VTT, but I'd give Foundry a chance if I were you. Apparently they have a very forgiving 30-day refund policy so there's very little you could lose from giving it a go.

Onetastic Onetastic for OneNote (getonetastic.com) does have a number of macro add-ins. Not sure if any do what you want. It is free up to a point. I'd go Pro, but it's a subscription and I wouldn't get the value from it that the Pro version costs.

Sure that would be no problem. You need to pay for the add on to use the macros I think. There might be a trial period.

I modified an existing macro to tweak it to my needs. Start but checking out the link below. If you also need one tweaked I can try help.

https://getonetastic.com/?sortBy=popularity&r=macroland&search=Resize

I do this with the OneNote macro add on https://getonetastic.com/macros You would need to create a custom macro.

I scan all my receipts on my phone and send them to OneNote.

I then open OneNote and run the macro to resize all the images to a specific size.

I need dates on lots of things including OneNote page titles and OneNote paragraphs. I do it either manually but mostly via Autohotkey. In your case you'd have to do it after the page title's already on a OneNote page.

This OneNote OneTastic Macro can prepend an icon to a page's title. You can modify that macro to prepend the current date instead. Execute the macro either manually or with a hotkey. This only works on the current page.

I haven't tested this macro but it can add or remove date from all pages in a notebook or section. It wouldn't be hard to modify that macro so that it instead prepended the date to the existing titles of all pages in a section or notebook. Those macros aren't hard to modify.

Even though you have to run these macros in OneNote 2016, when you sync notebooks, the changes are visible everywhere. You could alternately modify one of these macros to move the existing date from the end of page titles to the beginning. Autohotkey could do that too for the current page.

I have Office 365 but I didn't know there were different versions of OneNote for regular 365 users and business 365 users. II use OneNote for Windows 10 and OneNote 2016 since they don't have the same features.

You might look at some of these OneTastic Macros that may let you make OneNote 2016 work in a way you like. I'm testing some now related to linking but there are others related to customization and appearance. Someone from Microsoft create OneTastic and a Microsoft web page talks about it.

You probably know more about where to get OneNote 2016 than I do. I got it last year. But I (thought) I heard that you can still download it from somewhere. 2016 lets me organize tags, dock a window to the side of my screen and customize the Quick Access area like we can do in Word. But it's missing some things that OneNote for Windows 10 has. Regardless of what I use, there will probably be some things I need that what I'm using doesn't provide.

https://www.onenotegem.com/ OneNote Gem has OneNote tools that can work in OneNote Windows 10.

Everyone download Onetastic for free and download the macro "A4 sized paper with infinite length and ruled horizontal lines". It gives you exactly what the title says it gives you. It has black ruled lines as default, but you are able to change the color of the lines or opt for no lines if you want.

Remember that with the free version of Onetastic you are limited to 500 total executions for macros for one year. The Pro version is $15/year which is pretty reasonable. If you want to cheat the system, execute the macro on a page and never delete it. Do your work on the page with the macro, then copy and paste the whole thing onto a new page.

> Free version of Onetastic allows downloading up to 20 macros from Macroland and executing them up to 500 times. That would allow an infrequent user of macros (e.g. running 10 macros a week) to use it for about one year without need for a Pro license. If you want to use more macros, you can purchase a Pro license.

If you choose OneNote, you might try the Onetastic extension. Here's what Microsoft said about it ..

>"O*mer Atay is a developer on the OneNote team, and he created Onetastic in his free time.* Here’s a look at Onetastic, an add-in to enhance OneNote functionality with a set of built-in features and an extensible macro processor that allows you to download and modify macros and add new ones yourself."

Onetastic tools help you use OneNote more productively in many ways, as seen on this page.

Because Evernote and OneNote let you create links to pages, you can do anything you like with those links. For instance, you might want to create a task in a Todo app that contains a link to a page in Evernote or OneNote. That may be useful because sometimes a note may have embedded tasks you need to do. OneNote also allows you to create a link at the paragraph level. That means that in another program, such as Google Calender, you could paste that link into a Calendar date. This would effectively link the Calendar entry to a specific paragraph in a specific page in a specific section of a specific OneNote notebook.

Since you may have lots of existing notes and categories, you will find Evernote or OneNote useful for cataloging and tagging those notes in a way that makes it easy to find things.

You can also visit Zapier. It lets you sync apps together.

Much appreciated. Thanks!

A couple questions/comments:

> Download Autohotkey and get/customise a script that improves the functionality of the pen button. What you set them to depends on your workflow. Personally, I use single tap to open OneNote (if OneNote is already open it creates a blank page), and double tap to trigger the screenshot clipping tool. Some people use it to control Powerpoint presentations, that kind of thing.

Dope. I didn't know this existed.

> Enable device tracking. It's not gonna miraculously rescue your Surface if it's misplaced/stolen, but it's something, and something is better than nothing.

What program do you recommend for this?

> Encourage users to use Edge over Chrome, mostly for the much more optimised battery consumption, but also because there are various cooked-in features that were designed for Surface (e.g. pinch to zoom, smooth scrolling, swipe gestures, VP9 hybrid hardware acceleration, etc.). Firefox Quantum is a pretty good middle ground, just don't use Chrome.

I've never gotten used to edge. Honestly, the one petty thing that is really keeping me connected to chrome is the history syncing to my android. Do you know how to get around that?

> Not really Surface-specific, but Windows key + left or right will pin windows on that side of the screen. Always kinda surprises me when people don't know about this.

No shit! I showed this to my wife the other day and she thought I was some sort of tech wizard.

One tip of my own Onetastic. It has two killer features. One is a calendar that shows you what notes you wrote in on any given day and the other is the easy right click way to rotate images and inserts. Game changer for me.

In OneNote go to File/Options and look for the "Send to OneNote" on the left sidebar. That will show the settings for Email messages. You can designate what section to place the email page in. I created a section called "Sent from Email" and they all go there. Also, If you have not found Onetastic yet, try this site https://getonetastic.com/ One of the add-ins is a calendar that lists pages created by day created.

Not sure if either of the macro tools for OneNote 2016 (and Onenote API) will do this but you could check: (a) Onetastic.com for macros [https://getonetastic.com/]; or (b) Onenote Gem for their batch utility [http://www.onenotegem.com/]. Also you can create TEMPLATES for Onenote, so possible imbed a Date Code in the template using Onetastic to expand it?

Check out OneTastic. It has a lot of very useful macros. I am L3 Software Support, and we use OneNote for our KB. I also use my own Notebook to track all of my tickets (I hate our ticket system). I have a section where I keep notes (pages) on my tickets. Each ticket I work on has it's own page and a folder in OneDrive (which I link in the note). When a ticket is completed I move it to another section called "Closed." I have yet another section called Kanban where I have developed a type of Kanban board using tables. Tags are very useful to identify and find items of a particular type, and you can create your own or customize existing tags. The ticket sections are all in the same section group. I have other section groups for training and meeting notes.

Unfortunately, my team's wiki is a mass of dumped pages, emails and such, and is not very well organized (and we don't really have time to organize it), so I can't help you much there. I do have 1 good tip for you: you can attach links to videos from Youtube and it will embed the video in the page.

I'd like to store notebooks locally too, then sync without moving to OneDrive; however, it sounds somewhat more difficult than I was thinking. See this article on OneNote/OneDrive syncing for some clues about how ON syncs. Not sure it's 100% applicable, but might shed some light on parts of it.

It is much more advanced than Evernote. If not then there are addons for that.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/eBook-OneNote-2016-Tips-Tricks-4e08cf8b-dc37-4229-bdef-1f580220b6f5?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US https://getonetastic.com/macroland