Gem Menu is a toolkit (add-on) for OneNote for Windows 10 (UWP).  5 menus, 80+ features collected now.
Gem Menu is running in Windows Taskbar Notification Area (Tray Area)


Some features of Gem Menu only work for the notebooks of the Microsoft Personal Account,
which is not valid for OneNote notebooks of the Work or School Account.

P Feature Works for Microsoft Personal Account
S Feature Works for Microsoft School Account
W Feature Works for Microsoft Work Account
USG Feature Works for Microsoft US Government Account
G Feature Works for Microsoft  Germany Account
C Feature Works for Microsoft  Chinese Account
 

Gem Menu

New Page (Shortcut: Shift + Ctrl + Alt + M)

Create a new page with specified date and time format.
Create a new page and set its title as Customize Date format.
Specify the date and time in Options window, click "New Page" menu item to create a new page with this date and time format.
You can press Shift+Ctrl+Alt+M to create new note when the OneNote for Win10 is not running.

New A4 Page

Create A4 page into “Quick Notes” section

Open Notebook (Confirm Deleted Notebooks) [ P S W C ]

This feature help to open the notebooks.
If you cannot login a Microsoft account to open notebooks, you can try this feature to open notebook.
View all notebooks in OneDrive.com, include the deleted notebooks
Used to confirm the deleted notebooks and make sure you know which one is the deleted notebook.

Open Notebook by Link

Use the links of the OneNote notebook to open the notebook.
Usage:

1. In OneNote, right-click the notebook and click the "Copy Link to Notebook" menu item in the right-click menu. (This allows you to get links to the notebook)
2. In Gem Menu, open this feature. Paste the notebook links to the input box. Press OK to open the notebook.

Usage Scenarios:

• In OneNote, using the feature of share notebook, after sharing a notebook to someone else, send these links of the notebook to these people, who can open the shared notebook through this feature.

Open Cache Folder

Open cache folder of OneNote UWP.

Open Backup Folder of OneNote for Window 10

Backup folder will generated after perform “Move to the newest version of OneNote” in OneNote UWP v16001.14326.21942.0.
Use this menu item to jump to the Backup folder in Windows Explorer.

Open Local Link

Select a link in OneNote, and use this feature to open the link by default application. This feature can help to open the local link.
If you create a link of local file in OneNote, OneNote cannot open this type link as the permission. Gem provide this feature to help you open this type link.

Open Cloud Attachment

Using Windows local application to open and edit the OneNote Cloud Attachment directly from the OneNote for Windows 10.
Prerequisites: Use Windows Onedrive.exe to sync the "OneNote Uploads" folder under your Microsoft account before using this feature.
How to create Cloud Attachment in OneNote?

Save As - Save as HTML File

Select the page content in OneNote, and use this feature to save as HTML file to local disk.

Save as Word Document

Save selection as a Word document., convert OneNote headings to Word headings.

Save as PDF File

Save selected contents as a PDF file. And convert Headings to PDF bookmarks.

Save Page as PDF (Infinite Width)

Save current page as infinite width PDF file.
Keep handwritings in any position (even beyond A4 paper) to PDF file.
This feature need Office Visio.
 

Open Picture

Select a picture, then use this feature to open the picture by other app.
If the picture you put in Mac OneNote shrinks and you can't see clearly, you can use the Preview App to open the picture to view the original picture clearly.

Convert to PPT (PowerPoint Presentation)

Convert selection to PowerPoint presentation.
Split OneNote heading 1 to PowerPoint slides.
Save OneNote heading 1 to PowerPoint slide title.
Convert the paragraphs below the heading 1 to PowerPoint text boxes.

Export Notebook (Personal) [ P ] (Abandon)

Export specify notebook to a .zip file. (Extract zip file, include: .onetoc2, .one files and subdirectories.)
In the Notebook list page, right click on the notebook, click the "Export notebook" menu item to export the notebook. (Not supported IE)

Import Notebook (Personal) [ P ] (Abandon)

Select the folder that contains the OneNote notebook from your local drive to import your notebook. (Not supported IE)

Import Notebook (Personal, School, Work Account)

Import OneNote local notebook into OneDrive of Microsoft Personal, School or Work Account.
Note: This feature requires that OneDrive client be installed and that you be required to sign in to the corresponding Microsoft Personal or School or Work Account for OneDrive client.
 

Import .onepkg File (Personal, School, Work Account)

Import OneNote Package file into OneDrive of Microsoft Personal, School or Work Account.
Note: This feature requires that OneDrive client be installed and that you be required to sign in to the corresponding Microsoft Personal or School or Work Account for OneDrive client.
 

Extract .onepkg File

Extract OneNote .onepkg file to

• Open Notebook.onetoc2
• .one files

 

Export Log

Export logs to debug.
In "Options" window, "Page" tab -> check "Show "Export Log" menu item.
The "Export Log" menu item will be shown on "Export Import" submenu.

Export Tags to CSV File [ P S W ]

Export tags from the choose page to a .csv file that you can use Excel to open.
Note: Not support customize tags.
 

Export Tags to XML File [ P S W ]

Export tags in the choose page to a .xml file. You can use this data in other app.
Note: Not support customize tags.

Download and Install OneNote UWP

Download and install OneNote for Windows 10 from Microsoft.

Run OneNote UWP

Run OneNote UWP from Gem Menu.

Dock OneNote UWP

Dock OneNote UWP to windows desktop, this help to ease of browsing, take notes with OneNote.

Top Most OneNote UWP

Make OneNote UWP main Window always on top of other application windows.

Migrate OneNote UWP Cache Folder

Migrate the OneNote UWP cache folder to another disk to make space for C: .

Options - Options Window of Gem Menu

The settings of features of Gem Menu.

General

• Launch Gem Menu on Windows start.
• Gem Menu bar move with OneNote UWP.
• Run OneNote UWP at Windows start.

Page

Page Date and Time Setting for "New Page" feature.

Auto Backup and Recovery

Backup your OneNote UWP data automatics. It help you recovery your important pages when you lost the pages.

Language

Set display language for Gem Menu.
 

Edit Menu

Replace page title with selected text in current OneNote page.

Insert ruby text after a selected word to clarify its pronunciation. Support word of Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese.

Crop selected image in current OneNote page.

Handle the OCR Text of selected image in current page. There are some extra spaces between words after OneNote OCR text from an image. This OCR Text window provide clean these extra spaces feature.
You also can copy text from picture in OneNote, and paste here to clean extra spaces.
Recovery Paragraph: Revert scattered OCR words into paragraphs.

Copy selected text in current OneNote page as plain text to clipboard. It is ready for paste the plain text to other application.

Press Ctrl + C copy rich text from other application, and use this feature to paste rich text to OneNote without lose format.

Count selected contents. Count include: Paragraphs, Characters(no spaces), Characters, Words, Non-Asian words, Asian words, Images.

Navigation Pane [ P S W ]

List the Heading 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 on the current OneNote page.
Click on each item of list to quickly jump to the corresponding heading. Easy and fast navigation.
 

Displays the total number of OneNote pages in a Microsoft account.
You can view the historical changes of the page within a few months.

Find and Replace [ P S W ]

Find and replace in a OneNote page.
Find one by one, Replace one by one, Replace all.

Pages of Day [ P S W ]

Specifies a date, list the pages for that date by creation date or by modified date.

 

Table Menu

Table Style - Table Style Window

Apply table style to selected OneNote table.

Image Table

List images into a table, a row include an image.
Select image files from Windows folders, and list into a table.
Options: Insert and range images as horizontal.

Table Information

Display row count, column count of selected table.

Table to Text

Convert selected table to text with customize separator.
 

Text to Table

Convert selected paragraphs to a table by specified separator.
 

Save Table as CSV File

Export selected table to a .csv file.
 

Draw Menu

Ruler

Provides horizontal and vertical rulers.
Support menu items for ruler:

1. New Ruler: create multiple rulers.
2. Vertical Ruler: convert horizontal ruler to vertical ruler.
3. Hide All: hide all rulers. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+R
4. Show All: show all hided rulers. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+R.
5. Close: close current ruler.
6. Close All: close all rulers.
7. Horizontal Ruler: convert current ruler to horizontal from vertical.
8. Scale from Top to Bottom: convert scale from top:0 to bottom:1000
9. Scale from Bottom to Top: convert scale from bottom:0 to top:1000

 

Open OneMind Addin

When installed OneMind for Windows Addin, a “OneMind” menu item appear in “Draw” menu. This help quickly open the OneMind Addin.
 

Others

Variable Link

Support variable link of “Gem for OneNote”. Click on a variable link in “OneNote for Windows 10”, Gem will open the local file. For example: open the file saved in OneDrive folder.

Lost Pages Alert [ P S ]

Gem Menu is detecting the number of pages in the OneDrive.com, it will be treated as a large batch of lost notes when OneNote delete a certain amount of pages over a period of time.

Open OneNote Notebook (url)

The OneNote notebook synced by the normal OneDrive client is a .url file that you can't open by double-clicking on this .url file.
Usage: In the OneDrive sync folder, right-click on the .url file of a OneNote notebook, and in the pop-up right-click menu, select "Send to" -> “Open OneNote Notebook (url)”, it will open the notebook by OneNote.
 

Gem Menu for OneNote UWP documents

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