Effective use of OneNote 2013 in real life (Udemy.com)
Improve your note-taking skills and learn how to effectively use Microsoft OneNote 2013 to organize and share your notes
Created by: Ulrika Hedlund
Last updated September 2015
What you will learn
- Take effective notes using OneNote
- Organize your notes, ideas and research to get a good overview of your information
- Take creative notes from anywhere
- Easily find notes and items that need follow up
- Share notes with others
- Stay up to date with a shared notebook
- Take effective meeting minutes
- Save time by converting handwriting into text
- Conduct a professional job interview
How it compares
Against the other 459 rated Udemy courses in Office Productivity on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 45% of them
- Reviews1,621#102 of 460 by number of reviews
- Length1.1 hoursshorter than 89% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2015earlier than 96% of them
Course Description
Do you wish you could effectively organize your ideas, research and notes in one place? Do you wish you knew how to take really effective meeting minutes? Do you wish you knew how to use OneNote to collaborate on notebooks, easily find information you're looking for and access your notes from anywhere? If so this is the right course for you!
In this course you will learn how to use OneNote effectively to better organize information related to all aspects of your life.
Learn more about:
- How to take effective notes
- How to get organized with a digital notebook
- How to take creative notes from anywhere
- How to gather and keep track of your research
- How to share notes with others
- How to stay up to date with a shared notebook
- How to take effective meeting minutes
- How to conduct a professional job interview
Course overview
The course is structured into 5 sections with a total of 9 lectures. Each lecture is taught by Productivity Expert and ex-Microsoft employee, Ulrika Hedlund who shares her extensive knowledge in how to get the most out of OneNote 2013. Each lecture contains high-quality, High-Definition tutorial videos showing step by step how to accomplish the covered scenario. Full transcripts with screenshots (so called "User Guides") are available for download so that the steps covered in the lectures can be referenced at any time. To keep you focused and to provide a way for you to test your learning, quizzes are available after lectures and after the course as a whole.
Course details
In the first lecture “Get organized with a digital notebook" you will learn how to get started using OneNote, how to create notebooks, how to organize notes and how to quickly find what you're looking for.
In the next lecture “Take creative notes from anywhere" you will learn how to use the OneNote Windows App with its innovative interface designed for touch, you'll also learn how to use more advanced tools in OneNote 2013 to take your notes to a whole new level.
In the lecture “Gather and keep track of your research" you'll learn how to use OneNote to effectively structure your research. You'll learn how to collect information from various places, how to keep track of online sources and how to summarize everything you need to follow up on.
When sharing notes with others it is important to stay up to date. In the lecture “Stay up to date with a shared notebook" you'll learn how to share a notebook with others, how to access your notes from anywhere and how to stay up to date on changes others have made in the notebook.
Taking notes during meetings using OneNote is fast and easy. In lecture 7 and 8 you will learn how to take effective meeting notes and also how to conduct a professional job interview when using OneNote. You will learn how to use tags to keep track of action items, how to convert handwritten notes to text, how to share notes with others and how to protect sensitive information using passwords.
Do yourself a favor and learn how to effectively use OneNote
OneNote can really help you keep track of important information, it can help your team stay up to date and it can make meetings more effective. To conclude, taking smart and effective notes requires some practice and a bit of discipline. Using a digital notebook like OneNote to structure and share your notes is a great way to increase your productivity.
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
1,621 Reviews
Ulrika Hedlund
Are you bored of lengthy, feature-based product training? Do you believe that learning something new should be exciting and fun? I do! That's why I left my career at Microsoft to create a new type of learning experience where the focus is on the value - not the features. I'm passionate about technology and storytelling, and I thrive to share my experiences of how technology can effectively be used to work smarter - in a more engaging way. I'm the founder of two companies - Business Productivity and Storyals, the mother of three, Swedish and live in Dubai.
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Reviews
By Carol Klos on 8/24/2023
I am auditing this course with the goal to recommend to new OneNote users. This course is a great reference for what can be done, tips for using OneNote, and should inspire questions for further exploration.
By Anonymized User on 1/3/2023
Yes, it was a good course to put it simple. I love the fact that the course is divided to smaller sections, so it is much easier to overview the whole topic. In my opinion the little quiz parts are very useful, at least for me it helped a lot to memorize and learn the section parts. Thank you for the opportunity, keep it up!
By KARINA CYNTHIA GALLO CITERA on 11/25/2020
Great information to use.
By Darin E Boismier on 11/10/2020
I like how she explains the concepts using examples instead of just showing features.
By Ashley Farless on 9/18/2020
Yes I did not know how to organize One Note and now I do. I will start using it for my note taking in meetings.
By E B on 9/15/2020
This is not a course for beginners
By James Reynolds on 9/5/2020
When my company told my team to start using OneNote, we thought it would be a simple and intuitive task. We were wrong. OneNote is a very sophisticated product with many functionalities. This course enables us to use OneNote at a level that greatly enhances my team's productivity. I highly recommend this course.
By ric Tremblay on 8/13/2020
Good information , nice pace - up to date -
By Jean-Philippe Duplantis on 8/7/2020
Great overview of OneNote and it's main functions. Excellent course for someone who is not familiar with OneNote.
By Federico Escalante on 7/24/2020
superb way to organize your working platform!
By Angela McDaniel on 7/23/2020
Not all information applied to what I want to use it for, but is was a great overview.
By Sunil Kumar Bhalla on 7/22/2020
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