Using OneNote with Outlook

OneNote is a nifty new program in the Office family used for taking notes. It's useful for notes that document a meeting, whereas Outlook's notes are generally better for smaller notes. OneNote doesn't have anything to do with Outlook's notes and there is very limited integration between Outlook and OneNote. OneNote 2003 can send mail using the Office Envelope and create a task out of selected text, but that's it.

Send a OneNote page by email using the same steps you use to send other Office documents: Choose the F ile, E -mail menu to open an Office Envelope. Selecting more than one note page enables you to send all the pages in your email. OneNote sends them as one long message, with each page converted to HTML and in sequence in the message body.

Email options for OneNote, including the signature line added at the end of OneNote's email and whether the original note ( *.one ) file is attached to the message, are configured in OneNote's T ools, O ptions, E-mail menu.

OneNote also supports creating task entries from your OneNote notes. Select the note text and choose the Task button on OneNote's Standard toolbar to create a task containing your selection. The first line of the selection becomes the task's subject, leaving you to fill in the dates and set a reminder.