Navigate OneNote Notebooks With Alfred

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

• 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