That way new tasks from OneNote show up in my 'Categories (none)' filter (in FocusMe pane) when I process my tasks. I like to use the auto-sync feature where tasks are NOT automatically categorized to a project. Be sure to restart Outlook once you've marked connect to OneNote. We can set the tool to automatically sync the OneNote tasks or we can manually sync via the FocusMe Pane (which will be described next). We can set the tag FocusMe searches for in the OneNote XML page source, in the default case, the 'To Do' tag seems to be the chosen tag for marking text as a task in many applications. This can be done via the Options dialog using the Projects tab. The first thing we need to do is turn on the OneNote integration. Considering Microsoft has provided an Application Programming Interface (API) for OneNote, all we need to do now is provide a mechanism within Organizer for automatically capturing tasks from specified OneNote pages into Outlook tasks, and keep them in sync as they are managed and completed. FocusMe Integrates with OneNoteĬeptara's for Outlook add-in provides several methods for helping folks focus on what they need to do. Well sort of - the notes show up with the 'To Do' tag using the PC desktop application, however, there is no 'automatic' way to turn them into Outlook tasks. I thought - very cool! Now when I take notes on the iPad, mark them as a 'To Do' and sync them into Microsoft's cloud, the OneNote desktop application will provide an automatic way for linking the tasks to Outlook. There is even a 'To Do' tag that looks like a checkbox that when placed on a line in the app makes it look like the following text represents a task. Because of its portability, I've taken to capturing notes in client meetings using the OneNote 'app'. With some practice and patience, it seems to be transforming into a useful business tool (albeit slowly). It works pretty well as an entertainment device. We recently purchased an iPad with a Zagg bluetooth keyboard. iPad, Windows Mobile phones, etc) that feature would follow in each application. I had hoped that as OneNote became more ubiquitous across platforms (e.g. A pretty cool feature for linking notes with tasks. In the PC desktop application, there is a way to mark text and then create a linked Outlook task. Since Microsoft introduced OneNote in 2003, it has evolved into an integrated note taking application that works (relatively) seemlessly with Microsoft Office. But the thing that has always alluded me is 'how to capture the actions in notes' and make sure I do them and not forget. Since college, I've been using the paper method for taking notes and have a 'method' for identifying different types of notes, e.g. I have always struggled with note-taking.

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