PowerToys
There are a number of Add-ins and PowerToys available for Microsoft OneNote (mostly OneNote 2007 and the forthcoming OneNote 2010). On this page we'll try to create a useful catalog of those tools.
General
- Canvas for OneNote: An interesting new tool out of Microsoft Office Labs, canvas gives you a new way to interact with your OneNote notebooks. Keep in mind, this is just a prototype and probably best just for getting the feel for an interesting new interface.
- Daily Journal for OneNote 2007 - Another great tool from TabletDev. NOTE: If you're using OneNote 2010 you'll probably have to leave the notebook you're using the Daily Journal add-in with in 2007 format in order for it to work.
- Import Windows Journal to Onenote - A tool from Lin Wang that imports .JNT files from Windows Journal into OneNote 2007.
- Notebook Cleaner and Privatizer: Another toy from John Guin. This one removes all author information (including LastModifiedBy) and resets the navigation points in a notebook to the top most page in each section and puts the cursor in the title box of each page.
- OneNote Search & Replace: A toy from OneNote PM Daniel Escapa. This one fills a much-requested feature gap in OneNote 2007, the ability to search and replace.
- Sort Pages: A popular feature request is the ability to sort pages into alphabetical order. This tool does that for OneNote 2007. Note that once you sort them, you can't un-sort them (other than manually dragging and dropping them around)
- Sort Sections: Another popular feature request. This one alphabetically sorts sections.
Creating Content
- Outlook to OneNote: John Guin has written a nifty tool that will take messages received in Outlook and automatically create OneNote pages from them. You just have to have a certain word in the subject of the e-mail and the PowerToy does the rest! (naturally Outlook does have to be running and logged in at the time)
Math and Equations
- Table Sum: John Guin is a member of the OneNote test team and one of the more prolific OneNote PowerToy authors. This one will let you add a little basic functionality to OneNote tables by letting you set up a cell that sums the rows above it. Note that inking is not supported unless you subsequently convert those numbers to text.
Media (Audio & Video)
- Media Fine Tuner: Tool from Jeff Cardon that let's you adjust the start time of your typed notes so you can re-align them with the audio wherever you like.