If you like using Microsoft OneNote (which rocks!), you’ve got some favorite pages, and you like hotkeys, then this is for you! Here’s how to create PC global hotkeys to open OneNote and jump to specific pages, sections, notebooks, or paragraphs.
I’ve got about a dozen main pages that I rapidly switch between, like my work TO DO list, personal TO DO, my list of topics to cover with people when I talk to them, blog topics list, my Stream of Conciousness pages, etc. With this tip it’s just one hotkey to any of those pages at anytime (not just within OneNote).
The magic lies with the fact that OneNote rocks when it comes to being able to link to tabs, pages, or paragraphs. Just right-click on any of these to “Copy Link to _____”. Then use AutoHotKey (open source, my review) to assign a hotkey to that link. As an example, here are two of my links in my hotkeys.ahk file that runs at Windows startup/login. I use Win+Shift+<letter> for my OneNote pages. Like Win+Shift+T for my TO DO list.
; == OneNote Pages
; ==========================================================================================
; ^=Ctrl #=Win +=Shift !=Alt
; Open OneNote 'Projects', Win+Shift+P
#+p:: Run `onenote:///\\MACKIE\Noah\Data\OneNote\General\General.one§ion-id={1DB1BA6E-8FC5-46FC-8754-0CE815E0CA65}&page-id={5FE75ECE-8A80-487F-8B8C-566985366839}&end`
; Open OneNote 'LifeNexust Meeting Stream', Win+Shift+M
#+m:: Run `onenote:///C:\Noah\Data\OneNote\LifeNexus\Meetings.one#Meeting Stream§ion-id={849D7425-454F-4C0E-9F72-D09DA589147D}&page-id={4346888C-E602-4AC3-A637-AA0033AB092C}&end`
So if you use OneNote much and like hotkeys, give this a try. I use these hotkeys many dozens of times a day. Also don’t forget to check out the OneNote iOS app and the ability to share OneNote notebooks with others.
Update (7/20/2011): If there are spaces in the path to your notebook, AutoHotKey won’t like the %20 used to represent a space. So just replace %20 with a space, for example “…OneNote%20Notebooks…” would be “…OneNote Notebooks…”.
