As always, you can watch the entire episode, download the slides via SlideShare, or jump to the specific tip in the recording by clicking here. I shared this tip in the August 2019 Productivity Tips webinar, but wanted to expand on the feature here in the blog.

But rather than re-create the layout of your meeting notes each and every time, did you know that you can insert a quick and easy format for notes using OneNote templates? The benefits of using a template are that it creates consistency, supports teaM and company branding, and makes it easy to convey other essential, repeated information (spaces for project names and owners, resource links, and other key metadata). If you’re like me, when I’ve created a format for meeting notes, I’ll often cut-and-paste that notebook layout between projects. With most of my clients, all meeting notes are captured and shared in a uniform manner, allowing stakeholders to quickly review and act upon those shared notes. Whether creating new notebooks with every Microsoft Team, or leveraging individual or shared notebooks for Outlook-based meetings, OneNote usage is growing. Organizations are increasingly using OneNote as a shared note taking resource for meetings and team-based collaboration. As with many of the other core Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, etc) there is a tremendous depth to the product, and I am continually finding new features and ways to use it. One of the (many) things Microsoft got right with the launch of Microsoft Teams was to incorporate OneNote into the platform on Day 1, IMHO.

You could say that I am officially a #fanboy of the product. I discovered OneNote back in 2004, and it has been my primary content creation tool ever since.

Onenote to do template