Link to OneNote

[tareq....@gmail.com]

I am using OneNote and MLO to keep some sense of my daily taska, I often would like to point MLO to a section in OneNote, does anyone have suggestions how to do so?

 

The only way I found was clunky and not practical:

 

1- In OneNote, right click on the section you wish to link to and chose “copy link to section” from the context sensitive menu

2- In MLO, go to the task notes and past the link

 

The problem is that MLO pastes the link  as text and not a URL, therefore in order to later on open the OneNote section from within MLO, I need to copy the link, then open a run command and past the link into it, hit enter and then OneNote would open... .tiring!

 

Regards

T.

[pottster]

Insert "file:" before the onenote hyperlink. I have this set up as an AutoHotKey script so it's a one step process.

[tbGroupster]

I use onenote and autohotkey and here is my script code to insert the
file: before the onenote link. Works great! I press ctrl-shift-e to
invoke.

;
;*** ctrl shift-E to paste in links to MLO with file: in front
;


^+e::
clipboard = <file:%clipboard%>
Send ^v
return

[Preciso]

tbGroupster:  Thanks for the shortcut.  I'll use that a lot!

Does anyone know if there's a way to reverse the link, i.e. create a link in OneNote to a specific MLO task?

[pottster]

It ought to be possible using the GUID. Here is something I've published before about how to use the GUID for a task to create a shortcut. You could experiment with this approach in OneNote or perhaps someone else can give you an exact method.

CREATING AN EXTERNAL SHORTCUT TO A TASK OR FOLDER

1. Select the task/folder in the outline that you want to link to.

2. Go to Task/Advanced/Properties (or press Control+F12), and copy the "Task ID".

3. Create a shortcut (Right-click in space on the Desktop, select "New", select "Shortcut" and for the "Target" data, use your path to mlo.exe, your MLO data file location, and the Task ID you just copied. For example: -

"C:\Program Files\MyLifeOrganized\mlo.exe" "C:\Path\To\My\To Do File.ml" "-task {C8BFFF49-2A0A-4532-8398-321CC49595FE}"

Remembering to use quotes and spaces where shown.

4. Other switches can be substituted e.g. -zoom

The shortcut created can also be used very effectively in conjunction with a launch program such as Launchy or Slickrun for instant keyword/keyboard access from anywhere in Windows.