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This document provides guidance on using OneNote as an electronic laboratory notebook. It discusses the benefits of OneNote, such as its ability to gather different types of notes and share notebooks. It also provides instructions on setting up notebooks with sections, pages, and other organization features. The document demonstrates how to add text, tables, images, files and links. It offers tips for features like drawing, to-do lists and searching. Finally, it discusses sharing notebooks and using version control.

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OneNote Slides

This document provides guidance on using OneNote as an electronic laboratory notebook. It discusses the benefits of OneNote, such as its ability to gather different types of notes and share notebooks. It also provides instructions on setting up notebooks with sections, pages, and other organization features. The document demonstrates how to add text, tables, images, files and links. It offers tips for features like drawing, to-do lists and searching. Finally, it discusses sharing notebooks and using version control.

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Using OneNote as a

Laboratory Notebook
v2022-06

Jo Montgomery

[email protected]
Laboratory Notebooks
What should we be doing?
• Expectations and responsibilities
– Document what we are doing
– Be able to find results
– Timely/traceable/retrievable
– Checked

• Legal responsibilities
Why OneNote?

• Digital Notebook
• Gathers notes – handwritten or typed –
drawings, screen clippings, images and audio
content
• Notes can be shared
OneNote
OneNote
Office
365

OneNote OneNote
Online 2016

OneNote
OneNote for
for Mac Windows
10
OneNote
Storing notebooks

• Where can we save OneNote notebooks?


– Local drives (OneNote 2016)
– Microsoft
• OneDrive
• SharePoint
Electronic Laboratory Notebook
(ELN)

https://babraham.sharepoint.com/sites/ELN/SitePages/Home.aspx

or go to Office.com and search Sharepoint/ELN


Electronic Laboratory Notebook
(ELN)
Electronic Laboratory Notebook
(ELN)
Electronic Laboratory Notebook
(ELN)
Electronic Laboratory Notebook
(ELN)
Storage and organisation
SharePoint

ELN

JM SA FK

Notebook Notebook Notebook


1 1 1

Notebook Notebook Notebook


2 2 2

Notebook Notebook
3 3
Storage and organisation
SharePoint

ELN

JM SA FK

Notebook Notebook Notebook Notebook Notebook


1 1 1 2 3

Notebook Notebook
Section A Section B Section C
2 2

Notebook
Page 1
3

Page 2

Page 3
Storage and organisation
SharePoint

ELN

JM SA FK

Notebook Notebook Notebook Notebook Notebook


1 1 1 2 3

Notebook Notebook
Section A Section B Section C
2 2

Notebook
Page 1 Page 2 Page 3
3

Sub Page 1 Sub-page 2

Sub-sub-
page
Exercise 1

Accessing the
Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN)
area on Sharepoint

https://babraham.sharepoint.com/sites/ELN/SitePages/Home.aspx
Getting started
What is a Page?

“It’s not a word document…

… It’s a stream of consciousness…”

Simon Andrews, Head of Bioinformatics


What is a Page?
Add Sections and Pages
Add Sections
Add Sections
Add Sections
Add Sections
Pages
Pages
Add sub pages
Exercise 2

Opening a new OneNote (Online)


notebook and setting it up
Exercise 2

Create a Notebook to
look like this –
sections, colours, pages,
titles and levels of
organisation
What can you do in OneNote?
What can you do in OneNote?

• Add text
• Make tables
• Insert images
• Insert/attach files
• Add links
Stuff you don’t need

• Audio
• Translation tool
• Stickers
• Emojis 
• …things you don’t need
in a laboratory
notebook
How to add things
Text
Tables
Images
• File
• Web search
• Clipboard
– copy & paste
– screen grab/clip
Images
Images

+ Shift + S + Shift + 4
Exercise 3

Adding text, tables, formatting and


images
Exercise 3
Add files and links
• File
– Attachment
– File printout
• Link
– Point elsewhere
Insert a File
Insert a File
Add links
Add links

• Link to files stored elsewhere

– Large datasets
– Obligations regarding finding data
Add links

• Link to files stored elsewhere

– Direct link doesn’t work – tries to make the file


path a URL
– 2 options
Add links

1. Give file location


• Shift + Right Click on file in finder > copy as path
• (mac: control and click on file, then press option
and select copy as pathname)
• Paste text into OneNote as a record of where the
file is stored
• Make sure the file location doesn’t change
Add links
Add links
Add links

2. Turn the path into a URL


• Remove ‘http’ and type ‘file://’ at the start,
remove all backslashes (\) and replace with
forward slashes (/)
• Remove spaces and replace with %20
• Not a dynamic link
• Copy this link into browser and it should go to file
location
Add links

"O:\Training\One Note\OneNote ELN key facts.docx"


file://O:/Training/One%20Note/OneNote%20ELN%20key%20facts.docx
 
Exercise 4

Adding files and links

http://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/training.html#onenote

OneNote Course Data files (zip)


Other useful stuff
• Draw
• To Do list
• Quick note
Draw
Write notes on slides
Annotate images
Annotate images
To Do list
Table of Contents
• Create a Table of Contents with Links
• 2016: Insert > Link > My Notebook
and navigate through the Sections/pages to
add
• OneNote 2016, 10 and mac
[[pagetitleofexistingpage]]
• OneNote Online – copy URL for
notebook/section/page and add this as a link
Table of Contents
Page backgrounds and lines

• View > Paper Style

• View > Paper color


Other hints and tips
• Maths functions
OneNote 10
Search Text
Search Text in an Image
References
• OneNote is not a reference management system
• You can link to a reference management system such as
Reference Manager or EndNote if you must
Exercise 5

Other useful tools


Sharing OneNote notebooks
• Sharepoint ELN
• OneDrive
• Other locations
Sharing a page - OneNote 2016
Sharing a page - OneNote 2016
Sharing a page - OneNote 10
Sharing OneNote notebooks
Versions
Versions
Versions
Exercise 6

Share your notebook with someone in


the room

https://tinyurl.com/test-lab-book
Suggestions for use as a Laboratory
Notebook

Example Laboratory Notebook

https://tinyurl.com/template-lab-book
Exercise 7

Set up an outline for a laboratory


notebook to suit your experiments
The future: Windows 10
and Office 2019
• Microsoft is ‘sunsetting’ OneNote2016
• OneNote for Windows10 looks more like the mac or online
version
OneNote for Windows 10
Further help

https://support.office.com

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