Does anyone use MLO for tasks, but OneNote for info? is there any easy integration between the two?

[ToriMac]

Hi have been an MLO user on and off for a while. I am currently reviewing my organising set up and wondered if there is anyone out there who can share tips on using MLO and OneNote together and if there's any integration provided between the two that I should be making use of?  Thanks Vicki

[Joel Azaria]

Vicki, 

I don't use OneNote but afaik the only integration is to grab your OneNote URL and, for example, paste it into teh note field of your MLO task.  You  can also right click an MLO task, click 'copy as' then 'copy as a URL' and paste that into MLO but in my [limited] experiences, I've never gotten it to work.  MLO just doesn't respond as a handler for it's own links.

Perhaps we'll get an API in a future version that will enable such things but I think it's not here yet.

[Michael J]

Hi ToriMac - I do the same thing.  I take all my meeting notes in OneNote and paste various things there, I take notes from the web and embed links, I send emails and meeting invites into OneNote it's a great tool. I've been trying MLO again after a long absence, and liking it better this time around.  But no sadly there is no integration at all. The best you could do if you're an Outlook user is create Outlook tasks automatically from OneNote and then sync those tasks to MLO. Theoretically that should work smoothly and automatically, but I've found the Outlook sync is unreliable, and not worth the trouble of trying to make it work. 

Lack of integration with other tools and systems is a big weakness of MLO in my opinion.

On Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 6:17:04 PM UTC-4, ToriMac wrote:

[althegr...@gmail.com]

Hi Vicki (ToriMac) and others with the same question,

I make extensive use of OneNote and have done so since OneNote was first introduced. Yes, everything is in OneNote.

I am using OneNote 2010 & MLO 4.3.3 pro for the following steps.

So, Yes you can link to any place in OneNote from MLO.

1. In OneNote, go to the place you want to end up from MLO. Say there is a sentence "The Properties of Granite".

2. Right click the sentence (or page, section etc).

3. Select option "Copy Link to Paragraph" or "Copy Link to Page" or "Copy Link to Section" 

4. Go to MLO

5. Select line you want the link in.

6. Open the MLO Comments section of the properties area.

7. Right click the Comments area and Paste.

8. Now the Magic. Simply go to the first part of the link and insert file:   -- that's all! Now the paste becomes a link!

9. Now from MLO, just click the link and OneNote goes to the specified place. OneNote will start up if it's not already going.

See if I explained the above clearly.

On going from OneNote to MLO

1. In MLO, right click and select "Copy as" / "Copy as URL"

2. In OneNote, IF you just paste - you will see the link as text. (see next step for correct way)

2. the right way. In OneNote, type something you want to click, anything. 

3. Now select the word(s) you typed.

4. With the word(s) selected, press control K (edit link).

5. In the dialog box, in the address field, paste the MLO link. 

6. Click OK

7. Test the new link. (a warning box comes up - click OK)

This all works fine for me and hopefully you too!

If the above works - leave a comment as I spent a half hour writing this all out

If it doesn't work - leave a comment so I can clarify the steps.

Enjoy your new enhancement to MLO and OneNote (the perfect pairing)

Thanks for asking the question!

- Al the grey beard

[Daniel Sekera]

I believe this all works perfectly as long as you are doing everything on the machine that the "file" resides on.  I do not think this works if you are say mobile on your android and click the link for a file that is on you pc right?

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[Daniel Sekera]

changed my mind.  since my onedrive syncs with a cloud one drive i think it will work.  testing now...it has thrown my android into a tizzy but i think it will work 

[althegr...@gmail.com]

Hi Daniel,

You are correct that the machine must have both programs on it.

I access the MLO-OneNote set up from several PCs on my network by having the OneNote files in one location (a pc serving the OneNote files). OneNote is pointed to that PC so any other PC can also fetch from that PC.

As a note, you can share a directory higher that the OneNote directory, then map the shared directory to a drive letter like M. You don't have to, but this can come in handy sometimes when working from several PCs at the same time like I do.

For MLO, I use Cloud sync.

On the phone...
The OneNote link has http code so perhaps if you are using the web based OneNote the link might work. I have the OneNote 2010 app and that doesn't activate when clicking the link. Perhaps the newer versions of OneNote might work or Office 365 (which I don't have, so I can't try it).

Let us know what you find out.

- Al

[Lake Norman B2B Homes Boats]

Thank you for sharing! Onenote MLO

[Michael G.]

I'm also using MLO again after about a year of giving up on it. On thing I'm just starting to look at is using ON to create tasks in OL,then have MLO sync with OL. A very round-about way of getting it done and I'm not sure if or how well it will work.

On Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 6:17:04 PM UTC-4, ToriMac wrote:

[Daniel Sekera]

personally after many many years of loyal even passionate mlo usage and absolutely being argumentative about people being critical of it I am more than likely moving on.  my work flow almost predominately comes from email first and almost always includes reference material.  the fact that i can forward that email to evernote and then my evernote seamlessly syncs with zendone and smartsheet won the day.  yes mlo is by far my favorite and more powerful than anything and yes i can cut and paste a "link" into my mlo, but that is literally too mentally time consuming to do so.  sooooo much simpler in my life to simply forward, done, process the inbox and assign next actions and move on

someday if mlo ever intergrates with evernote or onenote (i really don't care which)  i'll be back

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[Stephen Jones]

I use evernote rather than onenote and while the integration with MLO is certainly not seemless, it works OK for me. I have shortcuts to email tasks to MLO and evenote and will often send an email to both so that I capture the task and the reference material. I have a folder in outlook to put those emails if I need to go back. 

In evernote, I use taskclone to automatically send tasks from evernote to MLO. I don't use that very often but it is a useful little feature. Not sure if it works in onenote.

Cheers

Stephen J

[Daniel Sekera]

wait!  what?  taskclone????.....omg I might never have to leave let me try this..........

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[Daniel Sekera]

hahahahaha......omg.........all i ever needed was this..........perfect!  i'd send you a million bucks if i had that many deer

thank you!

On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Stephen Jones <ste...@atmconsultants.com.au> wrote:

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[saraf]

Thanks Stephen

Taskclone was just what I needed!

[ToriMac]

Thanks for your reply.

I have tried this, and it takes me to ONENOTE Online, not my onenote desktop app. Better than nothing though!

Cheers,

Vicki

[ToriMac]

>>> "The best you could do if you're an Outlook user is create Outlook tasks automatically from OneNote and then sync those tasks to MLO"

Quite like the sound of that if I can make it work. I havent tried  creating tasks from onenote to outlook, or syncing outlook with MLO. Any pointers would be reatly appreciated!

Sorry for taking so long to reply. I have only just managed to get MLO installed on my worklaptop. really had to finght for it as it's not standard company software! :)

Cheers,

Vicki

[ToriMac]

What is Taskclone?! Do I need it in mylife?

Thanks,

Vicki

[ToriMac]

Hi

I appreciate you taking the time to write this - sorry its taken me ages to reply - only just got MLO on my work PC yesterday (they are very tight on what they allow you to install here!!)

I tried your 2 sets of steps. Comments below:

So, Yes you can link to any place in OneNote from MLO.

1 - 7 all fine

8. Now the Magic. Simply go to the first part of the link and insert file:   -- that's all! Now the paste becomes a link!

9. Now from MLO, just click the link and OneNote goes to the specified place. OneNote will start up if it's not already going.

I didn't need to do step 8 - it automatically made it a link. However it opens up Onenote Online, not the onenote desktop app.

On going from OneNote to MLO

1. -7. All fine

7. Test the new link. (a warning box comes up - click OK)

This didn't work. Tells me that its either readonly or someone else is using!?

I love onenote - am quite new to it, but finding it so useful. I want to manage notes and reference material in OneNote but have all taks in MLO. I want to keep as little in outlook as possible. If its useful material it should go in Onenote, if its something actionable it should go in MLO. Outlook has "send to Onenote", which is fab. Shame there's no "send to MLO"!!

I have read David Allens GTD quite a while ago and I do try to adopt his principles. I fin MLO is great for that.

Thanks,

Vicki