Find notes WITHOUT note flags

[ricochet]

In a few sections, I use note flags like labels -- every page that goes
into that section gets a note flag. However, I need to make sure that
I don't miss any (ie forget to label one after I create it and/or move
it into that section). Is there any way I can create a search/view
where I can ask only to see notes without note flags within a section?
It's almost like an 'unfiled' or 'unlabeled' category...

Thoughts?

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

Not really, since note flags are applied to text/paragraphs, and not to
pages. That type of search is not something useful in most applications.

I think a manual scan of each section is your best bet.

Can you describe what these "labels" are intended to do? There may be a
more efficient use of Flags.

 

[ricochet]

Well, if you apply a note flag to the Page Title, it's basically the
same as applying it to the entire page.

I try to follow a GTD approach within OneNote using flags, so tagging
Next Actions and Projects is very important, but in this case, I have a
ton of pages within a section, but they can apply to one of six
categories. I created note flags for each category, and tag the page
title of each page as I create it or move it into the section.

What I need to know is that I didn't create or move a page into this
section without applying a tag, which is why I want to search for pages
within this section that don't have a note flag hooked to their page
title.

Hm. Maybe b/c 2007 actually shows sub-page titles, maybe I could just
make each page a sub-page of a page for each category...

 

[ricochet]

Well, I tried creating a 'Group page,' and making all of the relevant
pages sub-pages, and that works ok -- the problem there is that pages
with sub-pages can't collapse. I want to roll pages with sub-pages up.
That would be perfect.


Has anyone requested pages to collapse (like a tree view) to the
OneNote Team?

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

That's been requested but will not make it into ON2007.

If you're doing GTD with OneNote, how many contexts do you have that the 25
flags are not enough?

How are you organizing things, GTD-wise? Each item on its own page, or
each page is a list or context?

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Aloha ricochet,

Oft-requested but not yet implemented.

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenote.html

 

[jsanderson]

Eric--
I only have 6 contexts, but I have a section where I store a ton of
items that I need to label by category, so I either want to organize
them by folder / note flag / page:sub-page, etc... I do include this
section in my weekly review, so I want to make sure I don't miss
anything.



Aloha ricochet,
Oft-requested but not yet implemented.
-Ben-

Thanks Ben -- here's hoping there's some post-release update that makes
this possible.

 

[ricochet]

Heh, sorry, signed in with the wrong account...