Test yourself with paperless OneNote flashcards

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Adrian — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 11:16:42 GMT

Although quite useful these are not flash cards.... Flash cards have boundaries.... The boundary contains the nugget of memory: Words and images

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Efficiency — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:04:24 GMT

Is there a print option available for the flashcards?

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Michael C. Oldenburg — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:45:49 GMT

@John: You're right that OneNote will highlight the text of the container you click. This is because the four sided arrow is actually a selection control that lets you select, move, and otherwise interact with the corresponding ntoe container. Personally, the highlighting doesn't bother me, but I agree that it would be nice to make this user-configurable. Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment, I appreciate it!

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Michael C. Oldenburg — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:44:09 GMT

@Stan and @J, thank you for your feedback, I appreciate it!

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Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:51:30 GMT

Thanks! Great way to study multi-step processes!

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John McFadden — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:37:16 GMT

one problem that comes up straight away is when you double click to expand or contract is that the text is automatically highlighted looking very amateurish? work around for it?

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StanYau — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:50:13 GMT

That's an excellent feature in OneNote! I've been using OneNote since the 2003 version, so consider myself fairly familiar with the application. However, I've not come across this feature before - great for creating task lists with expanding/collapsing sub-tasks!

Thanks for that - keep the tips coming!

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Michael C. Oldenburg — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:11:17 GMT

Thanks for your comments, everyone. I'm glad you found this post useful.

@Fremy: If building large lists is too time-consuming for you and you don't mind experimenting with prototype software, check out the Flashcards app from Microsoft's Education Labs. Visit www.educationlabs.com/.../Flashcards for more info.

@April: Nice to hear from someone who is studying ASL. I found it to be an excellent example of visual learning.

@Lego: Thanks very much for the tip!

@vdowney: Thank you for catching an unnecessary step that I had intended to remove. I've fixed the blog post to reflect this correction. The CTRL key selection is a good tip to remember as well. For individual lines that need indenting, one can also use the TAB key if the cursor is placed at the beginning of a line of text. It's a bit faster than using the Indent button on the ribbon.

Thanks again to all of you for using OneNote and for leaving a comment! :-)

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vdowney — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:55:04 GMT

Great learning tool!

I was able to hide the indented lines just by double-clicking the arrow beside the main words. There was no need to select both lines, therefore it saved one step.

It's also possible to highlight all of the second lines by holding down the "CTRL" key and then indent them at once instead of indenting individually.

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Lego — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:34:24 GMT

This is great!

Another method i use is to make a list and create hyperlinks from another paragraph (say on an answer page) - and reduce the hyperlink to a single letter or punctuation mark.