Using OneNote With Your Rocketbook App

This post originally appeared as a paid post on the Rocketbook Blog. The Rocketbook Everlast is a reusable smart notebook. You can upload your handwritten notes to Evernote, Google Drive, OneNote and other cloud applications using the Rocketbook app. When you’ve filled up the notebook, just use water to erase your notes. I’ve shared how I use my Rocketbook to keep life running smoothly.  These are my tips for using OneNote with your Rocketbook!

Microsoft OneNote is one of the best note-taking tools out there. It offers multiple levels of organization and lots of note-taking options (like drawing and embedding Excel). If you’re new to OneNote, a few simple steps will get you started off right. Current OneNote users will need to follow a few simple steps to make sure that existing notebooks can connect to the Rocketbook app. Let’s do it!

You’re New to OneNote

If you don’t use OneNote at all, but want to start, you’re in good shape! In the OneNote desktop program, go to File > New and select OneDrive to create the notebooks that you would like. Make sure to create each notebook on OneDrive, not on your computer.

If you don’t see OneDrive as an option in File > New, check out Microsoft’s detailed directions for connecting to OneDrive. For help connecting to your corporate OneDrive, you may need to contact your company’s IT help.

Once your notebooks have been created on OneDrive, add the tabs that you want to use. Make sure to have a “Notes to File” tab in each notebook as a repository for your unfiled Rocketbook uploads. After that, it’s simply a matter of connecting each “Notes to File” tab to a Rocketbook symbol in the Rocketbook app. Fistbump.

You Already Use and Love OneNote

If you’re already a OneNote user, you’ll need to make sure that your notebooks are saved to the cloud. This allows the notebook to receive uploads from your Rocketbook app. To see where your notebooks are stored, simply right click on the notebook and select “Properties”. The Location field will say “Documents” (or another local directory) if the notebook is saved to your computer. If the notebook is in the cloud, the Location field will say “OneDrive.”

If you have any notebooks saved locally, you’ll need to transfer them to the cloud. Notebooks that haven’t already been shared can easily be saved to OneDrive with these simple instructions. If you’ve already shared the notebook in another location, you may get an error saying that the notebook cannot be moved. In that case, you’ll need to follow a slightly more involved process to recreate the notebook in OneDrive, and then move the tabs. The steps are documented here.

After all of your notebooks are in OneDrive, take the opportunity to organize your notebooks and tabs. Create a “Notes to File” tab in each notebook and connect it to a symbol via the Rocketbook app. You’re ready to rock!