Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft® Office OneNote™ 2003

Use the Pen to Take Notes

OneNote is your digital notebook. You can use it much like you would use a yellow legal pad or spiral bound notebook. You can enter text, handwriting, graphics, external content, and diagrams on your OneNote page. Figure 5.1 shows a diagram in OneNote with some highlighting and text mixed in.

Figure 5.1. Using the Tablet PC's pen, you can add diagrams and handwriting.

As you can see, it can be helpful to mix different objects on your OneNote page. It would be difficult to convey the appropriate relationships in that diagram if you had to do it via text, and attempting to draw the diagram with the mouse could be quite ...