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If you’ve adopted OneNote as your note-taking program of choice, you’ll probably want to share or send a Notebook at some point. Luckily, OneNote makes this quite easy. I’ll note that the instructions below also apply to individual Sections in Notebooks! There is also a difference between sharing and sending–when you share a Notebook, you’re sharing a ‘living’ document that will always be up-to-date, while sending a notebook just sends a copy of a specific file.

OneNote apps can use the OneDrive API SDK to get the access tokens that are required for all requests to the OneNote API. The SDK makes authentication easier for you. You just provide your identity information and integrate a few calls, and the SDK handles everything from sign in and consent to getting, storing, and refreshing tokens. OneNote Online - Shared Notebooks Don't Appear in OneDrive or OneNote We are trying to setup collaboration spaces between multiple people in our company. As part of that, I added notebooks to my OneDrive and shared them with my colleagues. My colleagues did the same. Microsoft OneNote The digital note-taking app for your devices.

Share a Notebook

• OneNote is a powerful notetaking application regardless of your job. For journalists working together, though, it’s even better. You can keep track of research, include PDFs, convert pictures to text, and so much more. To make working together even better, trying sharing a OneNote notebook in Teams. This 90-second video shows you how.
• In OneNote for Windows 10, you can share an entire notebook with other people and allow each invited notebook participant to view or fully edit your notes. If your notebook is stored in your personal OneDrive account, you can also share a static snapshot of any single page of notes. Share an entire notebook.

Send a Notebook (or Section, or Page)

17 May Here’s how to share and collaborate in Microsoft OneNote

How To Create A Shared Onenote Notebook

Microsoft OneNote is a powerful productivity tool that is quickly gaining popularity as more and more people get Laptops and other devices for work. But it is also a fantastic tool for sharing information and very importantly, collaborating with others in real time!

You can collaborate in OneNote from anywhere and with anyone. It’s very easy to share a Notebook with people inside your organisation. It is even possible to share a Notebook with people outside of your organisation.

As we become more mobile and working from home becomes a reality for many of us, collaboration tools like Microsoft OneNote can be extrememly helpful in keeping us productive wherever we are working from!

It’s a relatively simple process, but there are a few tricky things to navigate. I put this little article together along with some screenshots to help you take advantage of this powerful feature within Microsoft OneNote.

Sharing OneNote Basics

First up, it’s important to note that you cannot share “Sections” or “Pages” within a Notebook. If a particular area of your work requires collaboration or input from others, it is best to have a separate “Notebook” for this purpose.

How to share OneNote with others

Quick Note – My instructions and screenshots here are based on using OneNote 2016.

Firstly, with OneNote 2016 open, click on File to reveal your Open Notebooks or to create a new Notebook to share if you need to. (I’ll assume you are trying to share an existing Notebook in OneNote)

Next, click on the Link to “Invite people to this Notebook” as shown above. This will reveal a “Share Notebook” box as shown below.

Select a person or group of people

From here, you now either type the person’s email address or select them from your address book. (You will see this option on the far right of the “Share with People” section above – not pictured). You can also choose to include a personal message.

Or you could simply copy a “Sharing Link” to insert in a different email perhaps.

Note you can also choose the Editing Rights of the person you are inviting. (See below) Obviously you should choose the “Can edit” option if you are looking at collaborating with others.

The other person will then get an email invite as per the Screenshot below.

Open Shared Notebook within your OneNote Program

Now here is where it can get a little confusing. When they click “Open”, the OneNote Notebook will only open in the person’s browser. Ie. They will be viewing it “Online” only. This may be sufficient for them of course, but many people prefer to be able to open the Notebook inside their OneNote program. There are many features you can use when you open it in your Desktop Application.

To open the shared Notebook inside the OneNote 2016 program on your device, you need to select “Open in OneNote” from within the online version. (Pictured below)

One they do this, the Notebook will now open in that person’s OneNote program. (OneNote 2016) It will be an available Notebook for them to edit from that point on. (See below)

That’s it. It’s not too complicated but as you can see, there are a few little tricks along the way. Importantly, when you share OneNote with others, they can input ideas and this is done in “real time”. Their comments will appear almost instantly since OneNote is constantly syncing.

And you can actually see who is adding the text or images etc. (See my example below where Mary has added some text, and I can see her initials at the end of the text)

I just love the potential productivity gains that collaborating with others in OneNote provides. Being able to collaborate with OneNote in real time is a real game-changer.

Shared Onenote File

Hopefully this little “How To” is helpful to you. If it is, share it around freely, and leave us a comment below.

How To Open Shared Onenote Notebook

Geoff Prior – Lingford Consulting, May 2019

Shared Onenote Corruption

PS – And here’s 5 proven things I love about using MS OneNote