Unlike a word processor, in OneNote you can click anywhere on the page and begin typing, or inserting bulleted/numbered lists, or insert photographs, or insert sound clips, or draw with the mouse, or insert shapes, and so on.įor me, OneNote is an indispensable tool to organize my writing. The real power of OneNote is in the type of content you can create within each page. Lastly, I’ll create pages as needed to further separate content. Next, I’ll create a few new sections within the notebook, like Plot, Characters, Dialogue Snippets, etc.
Within OneNote I create a new notebook for each new story, in addition to a more generic notebook for more nebulous ideas that pop-up throughout the week but are not yet solidified into an existing story I’m working on. Now imagine having this binder with you on your laptop, tablet, mobile phone, or even all three! In essence, this is the power of OneNote. Of course, pages and binders can be re-ordered on a whim when the need arises. Within these smaller-sized binders you can insert and re-arrange single loose-leaf pages, separating the pages using adhesive section tabs.
Think of OneNote as an infinitely-sized, electronic version of a physical three-ring binder that contains one or more smaller-sized binders.
I use this software application to organize story concepts, manuscript outlines, character descriptions, dialogue snippets, and inspirational photographs for characters and settings. In recent days I started to reap the rewards of a decision I made two years ago to utilize the Microsoft OneNote application as my writer’s notebook.