This last feature adds a link to a file on your drive that will open the file when clicked. From here you can clip an area of your screen, add a picture, add a hyperlink, or attach a file.

Some of the real jewels are in the 'Insert' toolbar. One tag I've used is the use of a particular method so later I can find anywhere I've used that method across any experiment. The 'Home' ribbon has normal font operations and also the ability to add tags to a page and to search for tags. The ribbon toolbars of OneNote will be familiar to anybody who has used Office products but have some unique features. With these three levels of organization anybody should be able to do something sensible. I find sections useful for multiple experiments within a field season but it's really up to you. Notebooks can also have sections, similar to the sections of a multiple subject paper notebook. You might include a literature review or notes from meetings as subpages under the 'Background' page. Within a page you can make subpages that are shown as indented. The first page could be 'Background' where you give the reasoning for the experiment and any other pertinent information. Notebooks are organized with sections, pages and subpages. First, keep each experiment as a separate notebook within OneNote and save that notebook in the same directory as the related experiment. I will briefly describe some key functions of OneNote and how it can be used as a lab notebook. The fuller and more complete the notebook can be made the better. On this page we can see a drawing and a link to a relevant website. On the right side are pages for a particular experiment. This is an example notebook showing sections along the top for two different experiments. Experimental proposals, designs, data collection, statistics and manuscript writing are commonly done on the computer, so how can we easily keep track of this and also print the record at will? If you are anything like me, you may find yourself struggling to make your digital life backwards compatible with paper records. That's when I realized its potential as an electronic lab notebook. Recently, I opened it and tried to figure out what it was for. I had seen it over the past few years while using Word, Excel and PowerPoint but just skipped over it. OneNote is part of the Microsoft Office software suite.

Onenote notebook examples