Make a Kanban Board in OneNote

Edited by Djinu, Alexander Avdeev, Eng

You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show how to use Microsoft OneNote as a Kanban board. For those of you unfamiliar with Kanban boards, Kanban boards are a way to divide your task into items that are in the beginning, middle, and completion stages.

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Steps

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    We begin by opening Microsoft OneNote
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    We click "New"
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    We name a new notebook "Kanban Board"
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    We click "Create"
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    Once we've created the notebook, we click "New Section 1"
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    Let's rename the page to "Kanban Board".
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    We click "Insert"
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    We click "Table"
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    We'll insert three tables. We press "Command" and "C" to copy the table and "Command" and "V" to paste it twice.
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    We make sure that the tables are lined up and are of appropriate length
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    We can put the tables anywhere
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    We name the tables and change the style
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    Let's name them "Article Ideas", "Recording", and "Completed".
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    For example, in "Article Ideas", we can have a particular entry
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    It can be "Kanban board in Onenote".
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    If we hover at the left side of the entry, we can click and move the item between the stages of the project
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    We can move it from "Article Ideas" to "Recording" or "Completed".
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Obviously, we can add more styling and some flare to the tables to make them attractive; but this is an example on how to create a simple Kanban board using Microsoft OneNote. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the space below. Thank you for watching VisiHow!

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Recent edits by: Alexander Avdeev, Djinu

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