My Family History Files ( /onenote-a-to-z/) is an excellent site with a lot of ideas on using OneNote to organize your genealogy research. This will give you a clue on how to categorize your information. To get started, first consider the information you want to store in OneNote. Several blogs and forums contain tips from experienced genealogy users. You can master the basic features in a short time and immediately begin to create notebooks for your research. The design of OneNote is intuitive and logical.

Subpages - indented pages that can expand/collapse under a page divider.

Pages - tabs located to the right that can be used as pages or as additional dividers.Grouped sections - located at the top, similar to section dividers in a physical notebook.Sections- tabs located at the top enable you to add categories for your notebook.

Workbook - notebooks visible on the left you can create multiple workbooks and display or hide them.OneNote is essentially a virtual notebook that includes the same familiar elements as a physical notebook: Office OneNote 2007 can help you become more productive by keeping the information you need at your fingertips and reducing time spent searching for information across e-mail messages, paper notebooks, file folders, and printouts.'( Microsoft office site) 'Unlike paper-based systems, word processing programs, e-mail systems, or other productivity programs, Office OneNote 2007 delivers the flexibility to gather and organize text, pictures, digital handwriting, audio and video recordings, and more - all in one digital notebook on your computer. I have borrowed from Research Compass Description, and Organizing Your Files.The goal is to have your paper files digitized. This is a video on how to use Microsoft's Office 2007/2010 program Onenote to organize your genealogy research. Organizing your genealogy research using Microsoft OneNote

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