Microsoft® OneNote® 2010 Plain & Simple

Taking Advantage of the Notebook-Section-Pages Hierarchy

In OneNote, notes are stored in a notebook-section-pages hierarchy, with the foremost unit of storage being the notebook. Within each notebook, you create sections, and within sections, pages.

How you organize information in this hierarchy is important not only for retrieving information but also for conceptualizing it. In a class, for example, you can create one notebook for the class, one section for each lecture, and within each section, a page for each subject in the lecture. When the time comes to study for the final examination, you will know where to retrieve information about each subject, and moreover, your notebook-sections-pages structure will help you get a sense of how the subjects ...