Quickly Capturing Notes

It is not necessary to start OneNote each time you want to take notes or otherwise store information. You can quickly activate an input interface by clicking the OneNote icon that appears in the notification area of the Windows taskbar. Clicking the icon or pressing Windows logo key+N opens a Side Note into which you can immediately type or paste information.

You can also open a Side Note from within the OneNote program window by clicking New Side Note Window on the Window menu, or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+M.

The toolbar at the top of the Side Note window is the same toolbar that appears when you display a page in Full Page view in the OneNote program window. You work with content in a Side Note in the same way you work with ...

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