OneNote 2010: How to share a notebook between 2 computers using SkyDrive
I haven't made a post in ages - even though I've had plenty of time because of the summer holidays. I guess I have some catching up to do... But today is gonna be about OneNote 2010!
I had my first day on my 3rd semester today and it is a tradition for me to reformat my computers, so they are ready for the burden, that is to be used as a school computer. Since OneNote 2010 has been released and I get a free copy through a deal between my university and Microsoft, I of course wanted to try it out. And lots of good things can be said about it!
In ON 2010 Microsoft has enabled the use of SkyDrive. SkyDrive is Microsofts cloudsystem - if you have a Windows LiveID (a hotmail or live account) you already have a SkyDrive which can store a nifty 25GB of data. Think DropBox. If you create a web notebook in OneNote 2010 you will _always_ have access to your notes - simply from the browser! Pretty awesome. My main use of the service is to share my lecture notes between my laptop and stationary computer. And this takes me to my point - how does one setup such a system? Even though everything is so glassy and user friendly in Office it wasn't really obvious how to do this.
Setting up a shared notebook. Create a new Notebook and choose "Web" as type. Enter a logical name and proceed. OneNote will ask if you wish to send a link to the Notebook. Since you're only sharing between yourself on your own account, I simply recommend to just use a web interface - so click No.
Opening the shared notebook on another computer. It's actually really easy when you know what to do. Here's 3 steps:
1) Navigate to the SkyDrive. Open Internet Explorer (will _only_ work in IE), go to live.com and login using your liveID. In the top bar find the "Office"-link and click it. Now find the link where it says "SkyDrive" (below your file(s)) and click it.
2) Open the file. You will most likely see a folder or two. Open the folder which contains the file (probably "My Documents"), and find the OneNote-file inside and click it.
3) Opening the file in OneNote. In your upper left, click "File" and "Open in OneNote". Hurray - if you are using IE, the file should automagically open in OneNote and be a shared Notebook (it should have a globe in the icon).
Just repeat step 2&3 if you have more than one Notebook. Also, this also works on more than 2 computers (obviously) - just repeat the actions above for each computer.
Perhaps I will make a follow-up post on OneNote 2010 features. It really is an awesome program.
Cheers
April 9th, 2011 - 02:23
Thanks, I was wondering how to use this with my laptop.