multiple notebook

[jojo]

Don't know if you can have multiple notebooks but, if you can, how do you go
about doing it?

TIA

 

[Erik Sojka]

OneNote only uses one "My Notebook" base folder, but if you make judicious
use of folders, sections and pages *within* the single "My Notebook"
folder, you can achieve any level of organization and content separation
you want. In other words, there is only one Notebook, but effect of having
multiple Notebooks can be simulated with the use of folders and sections.

If you wanted to have multiple places on different hard drives, etc. from
which to open *.ONE files (maybe you're sharing a section file with a co-
worker) you can open any *.ONE file by going to File | Open | and selecting
the section or filder you want. These opened sections will seem like
they're part of your ON notes hierarchy, but the icon indicates it is
opened from an external location.

 

[JoJo]

Erik, it makes sense from a technical standpoint, but from an enduser point
of view it seems that if we're using the notebook paradigm, we should be able
to call it what makes most sense. Further, I'm not sure yet what the
performance impact would be since the user may not give concern to judicious
use of folders and sections.

If you look at a product like !Treepad, which I admit is not as capable, you
can see how they allow you to make use of multiple databases. Perhaps future
releases will permit this.

Regards JoJo

 

[Andrew Watt [MVP - InfoPath]]

Don't know if you can have multiple notebooks but, if you can, how do you go
about doing it?

TIA

Jojo,

You can, in theory, have as many Notebooks as you like, I think. The
problem comes when OneNote tries to find them.

If you look in Tools | Options | Open and Save there is a location
defining where your default notebook is stored.

There is nothing stopping you making a folder My Notebook2 etc

The practical issue is fiddling around in the Tools menu to change
where OneNote will look for your content and remembering, when you hae
OneNote open, which notebook you are in.

There is also potentially an issue about what you want to have open
when you start up OneNote. More fiddling.

My $0.02 is with Erik. When possible try to work within the default My
Notebook folder structure.

Andrew Watt
MVP - InfoPath

 

[jojo]

I guess that's the solution I was thinking of but it seems too awkward. I
have to agree with both of you that the best way to use Onenote is as a
single threaded information manager. It does seem to have some grewat
features. Thanks to both of you for the reponses. They were helpful. Happy
holidays.