"Insert link to file"- where did this go?

Hi

i elaborate a view on this matter.

Could you share your views on this idea?

1. Allow for files to be added to a section. Don’t embedd the files in the section page, but show a different ‘tab’ on the section lever (or any suiting visual representation) for files linked to the section. Either show each file as separate tab, or one tab ‘Files’, showing all the files– Perhaps give the choice to insert a copy of the file or a shortcut.
2. Revert from the move in onedrive and onedrive for business (which even operate in different ways) to hide (or rather obfuscate) the underlying file/folder structure of the notebooks. (For users who want to see how this works in local (eg not onedrive integrated mode) , just create a notebook in one local folder, then create some sections and section groupings (and perhaps some sublevels as well) . Next go the folder in file explorer. You’ll notice that:

a) The notebook takes the parent folder as it’s name.

b) Every section page corresponds with a seperate file in the (parent) folder.

c) Every section group corresponds with a (sub)folder. In every section folder a new table of contents files is generated.

-> Moreover, manipulating this structure in the file explorer (creating subfolder will give section groups and creating (copying) section files will create section pages in the notebook).

In short, onenote just uses plain old file/folder paradigm to organise itself. This offers a lot of advantages. As you can use your file explorer (or it’s appbased or webbased counterpart) to organise your notes; from spefic tasks, this is more convenient then using the onenote interface)

I’m pretty sure the cloud solutions, onedrive and onedrive for business still behave like that. But instead of this file/folder structure we only see a stub file (onedrive for business or a link onedrive). This link is not an easy way to manage notes. Eg, it can even not be removed, you have to go to the webbased client in order te remove something. Hence the leverage of being able to use your file explorer is completely gone.

3. Combine 1) en 2) -> Have OneNote represent every element in the parent folder . Section pages show up as sections, subfolders show up as section groups (as explained in 2), but every other file is represented as well (eg next to the section pages) in some way.

So if someone would like to add some file to a notebook, the only thing that needs to be done is to save it (and/or a link to it perhaps) to the (sub)folder of the notebook involved. Automatically they wil show up. Vice verse if a file is added through the onenote interface, it should be showed as a seperate file in the folder (and not as an embedded file in the secion page.

4. This might alsof or the need of having onenote sync in it’s own way (it seems to sync seperatly from onedrive logic). Onedrive might just provide for syncing and sharing as it does for any other file.
5. Take this one step further, and the need for a onenote.toc file might be taken away as well. Just add folders to the onenote list and have onenote represent the folders with onenote ‘view’. I fit sees section files, i twill show them as section pages, i fit sees non-sectionfiles, it will represent them in some way, and if it sees subfolders is will show section groups. All this without the of a separatly maintained toc file.

From explorer offer the option to ‘show the directory in  onenote’ so you immediately jump from any location to onenote-view. In onenote, don’t open notebooks, just add directories to some favorites folder.

Perhaps the whole specific caching structure might be abandoned as well, as onedrive might be allready doing this.

https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/256328-onenote-users/suggestions/7080538-files

This is great, puts a link into my page of the folder/file concerned - however - it will not open the file and I get a trust warning each time. I click 'yes' on the proceed button and that's where it all stops.

Any ideas?

Hello

i've posted this on the user newsgroup

https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/256328-onenote-users/suggestions/7076888-files

basically

the idea is to move away from the embedded approach and gives users control/transparancy on the notebook structure

for files being 'added' to a notebook, just show the files currently present in the directory of the toc file.

(just as Sections are just section files and section groups are folders)

this would enrich the proven  file/folder paradigm with the magic of the OneNote format for collecting

notes

Paul

Has this been resolved? Has this feature been reinstated in onenote 2013? I work as a project manager for a very large international marine engineering company - we simply do not have time to mess about finding the best way. It was there in earlier versions, now it is not - why do Microsoft ignore their users?

Please let me know if there is any update on this

So it sounds like the problems with linking were removed and now you can only "attach"

This sounds like an improvement