kevin-funderburg / alfred-microsoft-onenote-navigator

Use Alfred to browse through your Microsoft OneNote notebooks, section groups and sections and then jump to them instantly.

Navigate OneNote Notebooks With Alfred

Search or browse any notebook,section group,section or page in Microsoft OneNote from Alfred.

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• Navigate OneNote Notebooks With Alfred
  • Features
  • Installation
  • Usage
  • Configuration
  • Licensing & thanks
  • Changelog

Features

• Search or browse all OneNote Notebooks/section groups/sections/pages.
• When searching:
  • Press ↩︎ to either open the selected item in OneNote or browse the selection.
• When browsing:
  • Press ↩︎ to continue diving deeper into notebook hierarchy. Once a page is found (deepest depth) it will open it in OneNote
  • Press ⌘↩︎ to open the currently selected notebook/section/section group

Installation

Download the latest release and double-click the file to install in Alfred.

Usage

The main keywords are 1a, 1b, 1r & 1m:

• 1a [<query>] - Search all notebooks/section groups/sections/pages and retain memory for intelligent order.

  • ↩︎ or ⌘NUM — If the selection is a page (i.e. has no children), then open selection in OneNote; otherwise browse selection in Alfred.
  • ⌘↩︎ — Open selection in OneNote instead of browse.

• 1b [<query>] — Browse OneNote from top level Notebooks in Alfred.

  • ↩︎ or ⌘NUM — View the selections sub-sections, if it has no sub-sections (deepest level of notebook) it will open the page in OneNote.
  • ⌘↩︎ — Open selection in OneNote instead.

• 1r [<query>] — Search recent OneNote items.

  • ↩︎ or ⌘NUM — If the selection is a page (i.e. has no children), then open selection in OneNote; otherwise browse selection in Alfred.
  • ⌘↩︎ — Open selection in OneNote instead of browse.

• 1m [<query>] — Search recently modified OneNote items.

  • ↩︎ or ⌘NUM — If the selection is a page (i.e. has no children), then open selection in OneNote; otherwise browse selection in Alfred.
  • ⌘↩︎ — Open selection in OneNote instead of browse.

• 1u — Update stored OneNote data.

Configuration

The workflow locates a database for each notebook stored and uses them to perform searches and build a URL that OneNote can respond to. The first search may be slower than expected but afterwards it should speed up.

NOTE: Previous versions of this workflow did not get along with users whose notebooks were stored on Microsoft Sharepoint, I think this new version should work for it, but as mine are not stored on sharepoint, I can't test. If yours are stored on sharepoint and they still don't work, let me know.

Licensing & thanks

This workflow is released under the MIT Licence.

This workflow uses on the wonderful library alfred-workflow by @deanishe.

Changelog

• v1.0.0 — 06/14/19
  • First public release
• v1.2.0 - 06/19/19
  • Fixed storage of base url
• v1.2.2 - 10/14/19
  • Added trap for sharepoint URLs
• v1.3.0 - 02/23/20
  • Added search all functionality
• v1.3.1 - 02/25/20
  • Added ability to browse a selection after searching all.
  • Improved code logic and added new keywords.
• v2.0.0 - 12/18/20
  • found databases which allowed to search/open every notebook item (including pages)
  • changed script altogether in order to adapt