Book excerpt: OneNote is a popular and proven note-taking tool available on many platforms. This book shows you how expert users have leveraged OneNote in incredibly productive workflows - from professionals who rely on OneNote for digital planning, to college students who leverage OneNote's unique abilities on a Mac and an iPad for note-taking and sense-making to stay on top of their work. In this book, you will learn how to: • visually plan out your day with a handwritten journal, and powered up with digital hyperlinks and file attachments; • structure your notes using notebooks, sections, and pages in OneNote, and thereby retrieving your notes with ease when needed; • make masterful, comprehensive notes for college bringing together content from your textbooks, lecture notes, and personal insights to make colorful and memorable study materials; • tap into the tables-in-tables feature in OneNote to structure your notes with clarity and precision; • leverage the large digital whiteboard built into every OneNote page to lay out your reference materials visually while making meaning emerge through hand-drawn connections as an overlay; and • employ novel features in OneNote such as inline arithmetic, wiki syntax for automatic page links, immersive reader with built-in translation of foreign text, and custom tags for precision search across all your OneNote notebooks. This author also presents a suite of rich workflows of his own in the companion book "OneNote Recipes Elegant Techniques for Problem Solving and Visual Thinking", published in 2021.