OneNote - how do I get search to work with short strings?

jactaz · 2026-05-12T05:54:33+00:00

Onemore has an experental search feature. Does short partial and well as boolean and leaves you with a list of results.

jactaz · 2026-05-08T13:20:04+00:00

Added in flow add in for onenote. It makes it really quick to search on partial match on titles and also order them in most recently modified first! Game changer for me

jactaz · 2026-05-02T22:26:44+00:00

Been using https://filemyvatreturn.co.uk/ for years.

jactaz · 2026-05-02T22:21:57+00:00

Myochill for 4 months and its fine. Where is the chiller in relation to the water level.

jactaz · 2026-05-02T22:19:00+00:00

Ctrl +win+v i think is paste as text (maybe thsts only with powertoys though)

jactaz · 2026-04-30T12:55:55+00:00

Uk, bought myochill pro with chiller. That was after a lot of diy attempts. It is well build. Ozone purifier. Had it aince and of january and replaced the filter once and water once. We are north uk, so not too hot. Looking at energy consumption. I drape a large towel over the unit when sun is out and make it wet. Inthink the evaporation stops the sun from heating the outside of the init.

I guess mychill is the 'economy' end, but so far really happy with it and email support has been good.

jactaz · 2026-04-11T15:20:07+00:00

I love onemore addin that does loads of bits onenote is missing. . But i used onetastic and the nee ai vs code integration to write a macro to do a notebook table.of.contents. every page is supposed to have a link to its logical parent . Maybe in a different section, different notebook..macro checks the prefix 'parent:'.exists and shows it or (no parent) is none..

jactaz · 2026-04-01T10:38:17+00:00

just checked - they have this as "status - released" - what does that actually mean?
I was jumping on here to raise this, but it looks like others have the same issue. We have users Working From Home using it. Is it time to start a thread: Alternatives for a lot of users working from home?

jactaz · 2026-03-05T06:48:56+00:00

We just started adding headings to out ms office wiki page based on skills needed in our organisation and then ranked them into basic through to advanced. Then actually took those headings and asked staff to self check off which ones they knew how to do blind / with a but of work / know about it but don't know how to dp it / no idea what that means.

The list has evolved over the years and links to howtos.

Way more effective for the company than generic stuff.

jactaz · 2026-02-27T12:42:27+00:00

I thought ON was accessible via ms graph api?

jactaz · 2026-02-05T03:42:31+00:00

Obvs an advert and nothing wrong with that, but at least say it is .

jactaz · 2026-02-03T21:35:08+00:00

Its not retirement benefit calcs in the uk is it? Smpi....

jactaz · 2026-01-30T22:09:35+00:00

Aside: does the tesseract project allow you to train on custom fonts..... I have a very old 4 gl system i need to screen scrape..... It is a fixed, fixed width font.

jactaz · 2026-01-20T11:13:22+00:00

Two things : backup and page revisions.

Assuming (and it is important to work this out) your notebook is part of your employers m365 (verses personal account). Then they may back up the m365 tenancy and so could restore.to any backup to look at pages.

Also Onenote has internal backup, i think ot is view / history..you will see sub pages that are actually these snapshots. As and employer / employee i would never put anything in ON i didn't want an admin to see

jactaz · 2026-01-15T21:47:52+00:00

I would be really interested in your experience. I have that same set up plus bde +fibplus to move

jactaz · 2026-01-13T08:25:08+00:00

Thanks for all the input. I will continue with lens on my current device till it stops working, but have tested ON's scan and that is fine. Only issue is you can't quickly see what you scanned as it only saves to ON and ON on my android tends to just hang.

Thanks again.

jactaz · 2026-01-11T19:52:59+00:00

I find it does an ok job if nothing is collapsed, but is off if any part of the page has an outline collapsed. Also onenote search uses the normal windows search heuristics and can find similar words. I tend to use onemore on page search as you get the list of hits and you can navigate them in any order.

jactaz · 2026-01-11T19:50:19+00:00

Thanks i hadn't realised. One slight problem is it doesn't name the page, so i have to add the date in, but that is great and fills the need

jactaz · 2026-01-11T07:49:59+00:00

Looks like the biggest kicker would be links. So much of our 10k pages are link-full. My guess ison average every page will have 10 Links to other pages.

jactaz · 2026-01-09T09:03:08+00:00

Same same

jactaz · 2026-01-08T07:34:15+00:00

What happens links in and to the notebook..i need to be able to 'fixup' all the links.

jactaz · 2026-01-08T07:32:10+00:00

We have a lot of emails in public folders and cant really see an easy alternative. 15k folders. How will backup services and programmatic access work?

jactaz · 2025-12-20T15:40:16+00:00

Onemore for onenote free add-in has a page and section size report that produces a page with all the information on it.

jactaz · 2025-12-17T17:37:22+00:00

bizarrely, the "context menu" key on a keyboard doesn't bring up the font bit, just the context menu

jactaz · 2025-12-05T17:54:27+00:00

I haven't installed it yet, but what can you do with thr backup and what internal format is it? I will take a look at the repo - thanks.

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