OneNote for Life Design #2 – Section Groups

Real Life Equivalent of a OneNote Section Group

• File cabinet
• File cabinet drawer

Uses of a Section Group

• A Section Group can hold other section groups or sections
• Creates a hierarchical organization
• Unlike real life, you can put a section group (drawer) inside another section group (drawer)
• When a section has too many pages, create a section group that contains several sections in order to divide up the pages.

Life Design Uses for Section Group

• Use for big divisions of Life Design Information such as journals, private journals etcetera

OneNote Tips for Section Groups

• Section groups cannot be ordered, they are in alphabetical order
• Section groups cannot be colored

How to Use OneNote Section Groups

OneNote 2016

• A new Section Group can be added by right-clicking on the section/section group bar

For more information on OneNote Section Group see Microsoft: Create a section group

OneNote for Windows 10

• A new Section Group can be added by right-clicking on left-hand the section/section panel

For more information on OneNote for Windows 10 see Basic Tasks in OneNote for Windows 10

JournaledLife Conversation

How have you used OneNote section groups to organize your notes?