SLIDE 1 OneNote Laboratory Notebook Tutorial
v2019-06
Jo Montgomery babraham.bioinformatics@babraham.ac.uk
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Laboratory Notebooks
SLIDE 3 What should we be doing?
- Expectations and responsibilities
– Document what we are doing – Be able to find results – Timely/traceable/retrievable – Checked
SLIDE 4 Why OneNote?
- Digital Notebook
- Gathers notes – handwritten or typed –
drawings, screen clippings, images and audio content
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OneNote
OneNote Office 365 OneNote 2016 OneNote for Windows 10 OneNote for Mac OneNote Online
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OneNote
SLIDE 7 Storing notebooks
- Where can we save OneNote notebooks?
–Local drives (OneNote 2016) –Microsoft
SLIDE 8 Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN)
https://babraham.sharepoint.com/sites/ELN/SitePages/Home.aspx
- r go to Office.com and search Sharepoint/ELN
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Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN)
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Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN)
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Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN)
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Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN)
SLIDE 13 Storage and organisation
SharePoint JM Notebook 1 Notebook 2 Notebook 3 SA Notebook 1 Notebook 2 FK Notebook 1 Notebook 2 Notebook 3 ELN
SLIDE 14 Storage and organisation
SharePoint JM Notebook 1 Notebook 2 Notebook 3 SA Notebook 1 Notebook 2 FK Notebook 1 Notebook 2 Notebook 3 Section A Section B Section C Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 ELN
SLIDE 15 Storage and organisation
SharePoint JM Notebook 1 Notebook 2 Notebook 3 SA Notebook 1 Notebook 2 FK Notebook 1 Notebook 2 Notebook 3 Section A Section B Section C Page 1 Sub Page 1 Sub-sub- page Sub-page 2 Page 2 Page 3 ELN
SLIDE 16 Exercise 1
Accessing the Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) area on Sharepoint
https://babraham.sharepoint.com/sites/ELN/SitePages/Home.aspx
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Getting started
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What is a Page?
It’s not a word document… … It’s a stream of consciousness…
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What is a Page?
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Add Sections and Pages
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Add Sections
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Add Sections
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Add Sections
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Add Sections
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Pages
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Pages
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Add sub pages
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Exercise 2
Opening a new OneNote (Online) notebook and setting it up
SLIDE 29 Exercise 2
Create a Notebook to look like this – sections, colours, pages, titles and levels of
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What can you do in OneNote?
SLIDE 31 What can you do in OneNote?
- Add text
- Make tables
- Insert images
- Insert/attach files
- Add links
SLIDE 32 Stuff you don’t need
- Audio
- Translation tool
- Stickers
- Emojis
- …things you don’t need
in a laboratory notebook
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How to add things
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Text
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Tables
SLIDE 36 Images
- File
- Web search
- Clipboard
– copy & paste – screen grab/clip
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Images
SLIDE 38 Images
+ Shift + S + Shift + 4
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Exercise 3
Adding text, tables, formatting and images
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Exercise 3
SLIDE 41 Add files and links
– Attachment – File printout
– Point elsewhere
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Insert a File
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Insert a File
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Add links
SLIDE 45 Add links
- Link to files stored elsewhere
– Large datasets – Obligations regarding finding data
SLIDE 46 Add links
- Link to files stored elsewhere
– Direct link doesn’t work – tries to make the file path a URL – 2 options
SLIDE 47 Add links
- 1. Give file location
- Shift + Right Click on file in finder > copy as path
- Paste text into OneNote as a record of where the
file is stored
- Make sure the file location doesn’t change
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Add links
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Add links
SLIDE 50 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 (/)
- Not a dynamic link
- Copy this link into browser and it should go to
file location
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Exercise 4
Adding files and links
SLIDE 52 Other useful stuff
- Draw
- To Do list
- Quick note
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Draw
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Write notes on slides
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Annotate images
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Annotate images
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To Do list
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Add a Time and Date stamp
SLIDE 59 Table of Contents
- Create a Table of Contents with Links
- 2016: Insert > Link > My Notebook
and navigate through the Sections/pages to add
[[pagetitleofexistingpage]]
- OneNote Online – copy URL for
notebook/section/page and add this as a link
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Table of Contents
SLIDE 61 Page backgrounds and lines
- View > Paper Style
- View > Paper color
SLIDE 62 Other hints and tips
- Indent and outdent
- Alt + Shift +
- Rearrange order in a list using
- Alt + Shift +
SLIDE 63 Other hints and tips
OneNote 10
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Search Text
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Search Text in an Image
SLIDE 66 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
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Exercise 5
Other useful tools
SLIDE 68 Sharing OneNote notebooks
- Sharepoint ELN
- OneDrive
- Other locations
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Sharing OneNote notebooks
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Versions
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Versions
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Exercise 6
Share your notebook with someone in the room
SLIDE 73 Suggestions for use as a Laboratory Notebook
Example Laboratory Notebook https://tinyurl.com/labbooklayout
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Exercise 7
Set up an outline for a laboratory notebook to suit your experiments
SLIDE 75 The future: Windows 10 and Office 2019
- Microsoft is ‘sunsetting’ OneNote2016
- OneNote for Windows10 looks more like the
mac or online version
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OneNote for Windows 10
SLIDE 77 The future: Windows 10 and Office 2019
- There are some NEW features in OneNote 10
which aren’t available in OneNote2016
- Microsoft is recreating popular OneNote 2016
features in OneNote for Windows 10.
- OneNote 2016 still has a number of features
that OneNote for Windows 10 lacks…
- Some are scheduled for OneNote for Windows
10 and some aren’t…
SLIDE 78 Further help
https://support.office.com
SLIDE 79 Further help
- Access or technical issues: Computing
computing@babraham.ac.uk x6222
jo.montgomery@babraham.ac.uk http://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/training.html