Record audio or video notes in OneNote

- [Instructor] Now it's time to explore something you simply cannot do with a paper notebook, and that is add audio or video recordings to a page. We can with a digital notebook though, here in OneNote, it's what we're going to explore right now with our Red30 Tech notebook. There's a number of different options. In this movie, we'll explore recording audio and taking notes in that audio. We'll start by creating a new section by going up to the plus sign to the right of our Assets tab here in our Red30 Tech notebook if you've been following along. We're going to create a new section. The text New Section 1 is already highlighted so we can type right over it, how about Monthly Manager Meetings? Like so. Now, inside this section we should have separate pages for each of our meetings. We already have one untitled page showing up over here on the right and on the left. The cursor's flashing will type in January and press Enter. Let's go over to January now and hover over the lower portion of January and click the marker with the plus sign to add February and press Enter. And you can add the rest of the months of the year if you like. For the sake of time, I'm going to leave it at these two for now and just go back to January, and maybe we're ready now to walk into our monthly manager meeting. Instead of writing down notes furiously as people speak, instead I might want to record it and just jot down highlights that will match up with the audio. So how do we do that? Well, we go up to the Insert tab. And from here you'll see a Recording section. Imagine being a student at a lecture, being able to simply hold your device up and record it and jot down notes here and there that will always line up with the appropriate audio. You'll see here in recording we have a Transcribe button and a Record Video button. Recording audio obviously requires some kind of microphone, either internally or attached to your computer or device. And if you're going to record video as well, you'll need a camera. The process is the same though. For our purposes, we're going to focus on audio. It creates a much smaller file size than recording video as well. So let's click the dropdown to the right of Transcribe. Here's where you see Record Audio. The moment you click this, you will be recording, so you'll want to wait till the meeting's right at the beginning getting started before you click this. Everything that is said will be recorded unless you hit Pause. And along the way, I'm going to take notes so you can see how the notes or highlights will match up with the audio when we play it back. Let's see what happens now when we hit Record Audio. A brand new note is created for January. You can see the date and timestamp below, cursor's flashing waiting for us to type in our highlighted notes. In this case, we're recording everything that I'm saying. Let's say the president's up there talking about revenues, and we might want to go back to that section. We could type in revenues, pressing Enter to lock that in. That means as soon as we hit revenues in our note, it'll take us to that portion of the audio. We're still recording. Let's say we go on to sales. The sales manager is speaking. We type in sales and we can always go back to this section of the audio by going to the sales text in our note. Kind of cool. Now it's break time, so we go up here to the ribbon. It's a context sensitive ribbon called Recording. Whenever we're inside a note, clicking Pause will just simply pause recording so we can take our break. When we come back, we click the same Pause button to continue recording. I'm going to click it now. And lastly, in closing, our president is back to give us some feedback on future events. I might want to add events to my note like so. And when we're finished with the meeting, we go back to that ribbon and click Stop. So now we have a note sitting on our page, which is actually an audio recording of the meeting. And as you can see, January appears as the name. It has a little Play button also in the left margin. Notice when we go down to the notes that we typed in, just to the left of each of those is a little play button as well, so we could go directly to that portion of the audio. If you want to hear the whole thing, you can go up here and click the top one or go right up to the ribbon and click Play. You're going to see each of those notes get highlighted as the audio arrives at that point in time. I'm going to click the Play button now. A brand new note is created for January. You can see the date and timestamp below, cursor's flashing waiting for us to type in our highlighted notes. In this case, we're recording everything that I'm saying. Let's say the president's up there talking about revenues and we might want to go back to that section. We could type in revenues, pressing Enter to lock that in. That means as soon as we hit rev. So I'm clicking Pause now in the playback, and you can see when we got to that portion where the president was talking about revenues, it's highlighted in my recorded audio note here and the little Play button appears here as well. And we can go to any of these and hit the Play button to skip to that portion of the audio. That's the beauty of a recorded audio note. We can click in the background and just leave that on the page. I'm going to click Stop to stop playback, and at any time I can come back to this page, playback or go directly to a section if I need to review what was said during that time in the audio recording. So imagine using this in any kind of meeting where people are speaking and you don't want to miss a word. I could see students using this for lectures and classes where somebody is talking about important information. You'll always have it at your fingertips here in your OneNote notebook.