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September 22, 2006 11:29 AM

How do I link to (not insert) a task in OneNote?

I'm trying to determine whether MS OneNote (2003 SP2) will work for me. I currently make extensive use of Outlook tasks. What I'd like to do is link to (not copy) tasks within Outlook from OneNote, so that I can pull up the tasks directly from the OneNote page.

The reason copy won't work is that I want all changes to my task contents - which I perform in Outlook - to be reflected in the OneNote page.

Any OneNote gurus out there?

posted by aberrant to technology (3 comments total)

I talked to Chris Pratley, the lead PM for OneNote 2003, before it was released about just that issue. He said, basically, that Syncing with Outlook was such a pain in the ass that they weren't going to try, at least not in the first release.

It's possible that they added this feature in a service pack, but I kind of doubt it.
posted by Good Brain at 12:20 PM on September 22, 2006

This may help only if you plan to upgrade. The new version of OneNote (OneNote 2007) is now in Beta 2. It's hugely better than OneNote 2003, for many reasons. (For me, because you can have many notebooks, not just one.) I try to avoid Outlook (I keep my tasks in OneNote only), but a look at the Help section says that you can totally synchronize Tasks back and forth between Outlook 2007 and OneNote 2007. Change it in one, synchronize, and the change appears in the other. Microsoft charges $1.50 to download each program in beta (yes, a buck and a half... why bother...), so it might be worth it just to play around. I've been using OneNote 2007 for long enough to see how much better it is, so now I'm stuck in that I'll have to buy (very willingly) a finished copy when it comes out in Janaury.
posted by bigmuffindaddy at 12:55 PM on September 22, 2006

Second vote for OneNote 2007 here - it's as much better than 2003 as 2003 is to paper.
posted by tiamat at 2:26 PM on September 22, 2006