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Many developers who use OneNote started creating utilities to extend OneNote even before SP1 was released. These utilities allow you to capture input from other applications (even from your Palm Desktop) and send that input to OneNote as new note pages. This article provides a summary of what each of the new utilities do.

PPT2One

PowerPoint to OneNote is the best way to get PowerPoint presentation content into OneNote. Created by Jeff Borlik, this utility allows you to send the slides from any presentation file to a new OneNote page. In addition, you can choose whether to add note holders containing the slide by slide note content and/or any text in the textboxes on the slides. You can find the utility at:

RSS to One

Omar Shahine, a Microsoft employee has written a utility that lets you send RSS feeds to OneNote directly. You can select either local OPML feeds, or on-line RSS feeds. Once you have selected the site with the feed, you next choose which specific feeds you want added to your notebook. Each time you add content from the Utility, you get to choose whether to put the articles into a section named after the feed, or whether you want to put the articles into an existing section. If you choose to download articles more than once, duplicate pages will be created.

This Utility should be available from the Microsoft site. If it isn't, check Omar's blog for more information.

Send to OneNote from Outlook

Another of Omar Shahine's great utilities, this utility lets you send items from Outlook to OneNote at the click of a button. The items sent from Outlook to OneNote are not linked. You might look at this as the opposite of the Create Outlook Item functionality built into OneNote. You can find this utility on Microsoft's site as well.

Send to OneNote from Internet Explorer

This is Microsoft's version of IE to OneNote. The implementation is OK, but the resulting notes are not WYSIWYG results. In addition, there is no support for tables. Once you have sent the web page, they go in the WebClippings section. You can find this utility on Microsoft's site as well.

WebPageToOneNote

Created by Daron Devlin, I like this web to OneNote utility better than Microsoft’s version. It creates WYSIWYG content and puts that content into a section called WebImageCaptures. The results are easier to read and easier to understand. The one drawback is that the content is placed as an image on the background of the page, so it is not editable or searchable.

Daron updates the utility regularly. Some of the additions he has made since the initial release of the utility include multiple language support, the ability to change the destination section (though it still defaults to WebImageCaptures), and the inclusion of the URL for the capture. You can find more information on the utility at:

OneNoteImageWriter

Another of Daron's great utilities, this program lets you print anything to OneNote from any application. It creates a printer for your system that sends the print output to OneNote sections. You can send portrait or landscape content, in color or grey scale at a wide variety of resolutions. You decide whether the content goes on a single page, a series of pages, or a page with sub-pages. You can also choose whether the resulting item goes to the background or the foreground of the note page. The only thing I don't like about the results is that because the resulting notes are graphical, they cannot be edited or searched.

OPML import for OneNote

Joshua Allen has a utility that lets you import OPML information to OneNote. OPML is another document formatting feed system that lets you use a simple document to repeatedly create complex and changeable documents. You might think of it as an alternative to an RSS feed. The format was originally developed to handle outline or tree based, hierarchical information. The import utility lets you take OPML feeds and create OneNote pages and sections from those feeds. In addition, if the pages are updated on the source (usually the web or an intranet), new pages will be created that contain the new information. In this manner, historical data can be easily created and tracked.

Palm Desktop to OneNote

Do you use a Palm Pilot? If it runs Palm Desktop, Balazs Fejes has created the just the utility you need. Once you have synced to your Palm Desktop, this utility grabs the items you tell it to and sends them to OneNote. You can configure it to only pick up certain categories of notes or all notes. Notes go into a Palm Imported section, with new pages made for each category and new sub-pages made for new notes.

OneNotePowerToys

Run by AdminId, this blog focuses on power toys or utilites for OneNote that were submited during the 2005 Microsoft PowerToy contest.