Strategy: Planning using OneNote
8 Keywords: One Note, Onenote, Notes, Ideas, Mindmaps, Drawings, Dyslexia, Specific Learning Difficulties
"My planning I do in OneNote. You can just click anywhere and write. It also does all your pages and tabs for you, so it’s really good for organising everything. If you want to start an essay, for example, it’s good for getting some notes down.
They are all together as they’re in a Scrapbook. So you don’t have to create a document and then try and remember where you saved it. It just all goes in my uni. scrap book – on my PC."

"The fact that it does not try and constrain where you can type. You don’t have to use paragraphs or sentences and things – you can just type anywhere. You can draw on it (with a stylus), but I can circle things with a mouse with the ‘pencil thing’, but you can also ‘dump’ anything into it, for example Web links, or pictures – by dragging. When you are trying to plan, you can just chuck all the pictures into OneNote and then write notes next to them."
If you would like to see how to add text and images to OneNote download the PowerPoint Slides or view the video.
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"The Mind mapping software didn’t help at all, but Mind maps in general are helpful. I don’t tend to use Visio for planning. If I ever have to do a Mind map I will, but if I was going to do a plan, I’d use bullet points in OneNote probably."
- Ben CTip
Looking for new ideas for using OneNote - there are two blogs that might help - 'OneNote in Education' by Mike Tholfsen and Chris Pratley's Office Labs and OneNote Blog.



