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Opening a new SideNote in OneNote when Windows starts

  • Artigo

I saw this question on the newsgroup the other day and left a short description of how to get the behavior the user wanted. Basically, the request was to have a sidenote open each time Windows was started so that OneNote was ready to take notes at once. There is a way to do this and here is how.

First I checked the command line switch documentation for OneNote. According to it, if you add a /sidenote command to the command line, then when OneNote starts you will get a sidenote. This is the same behavior you get if you press WINDOWS+N, by the way.

The method to get this to start when Windows does is to add a shortcut using that command line switch to the startup group. Here's how to do this in Windows XP (Vista and Win7 are very similar).

Open the start menu then hover over the startup group and right click. You should get a menu like this:

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Select Open. You will get a normal folder view of the shortcut folder.

Right click anywhere in it and select New | Shortcut:

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You'll get the Create Shortcut Dialog. Browse to wherever you installed OneNote. This is probably c:\program files\Microsoft Office\Office 12 and select the OneNote.exe file there. Be sure to not select "onenotem.exe":

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Click OK.

The last thing to do is to add that command /sidenote after the closing quote for the shortcut to OneNote. It should look like this (there is a space in there too):

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Click Next and you can name the shortcut anything you want.

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Then finish. You should see your shortcut in the startup folder. Double click it to test it and you are done!

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Now each time your computer starts, a side note will open. If you ever want to get rid of this behavior, just delete the shortcut you made.

Questions, comments, concerns and criticisms always welcome,

John

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 27, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    November 29, 2009
    Joe, Not that I know of.  You could probably use AutoHotKey to create a small script to do this if you wanted.  Might be a little bit of screen flashing as the window got resized and such. In any event, I'll pass along the feedback that you want more control over the appearance of side notes. Thanks for using OneNote!

  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2010
    Very handy tip.  This allows me to set the system tray icon for screen clipping, and still be able to easily get my hands on a SideNote. Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    July 27, 2010
    Perhaps a dumb question, but does this solution persist the information contained in the given sidenote?  Meaning, if I have a running to do list, and I re-boot, will the to do list be present on start up?

  • Anonymous
    July 28, 2010
    Yes, it will. The notes you typed will be in the Unfiled Notes section.  Give it a shot!

  • Anonymous
    July 28, 2010
    Well, I guess I realize the data is persisted in the One note application itself.  I guess I was asking about the actual side note that is present at start up.  Would I need to point to a specific file and not just /sidenote?