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Microsoft OneNote

Search and manage notebooks, sections, and pages

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Written by Johan Åkerman

Introduction

Connect Microsoft OneNote to Sana to search and manage your notebooks. Find pages and sections, create new notebooks and pages, and access your notes without leaving Sana. In summary, the connector has the following key characteristics:

  • Category: Documents

  • Connector type: Real-time

  • Auth type: OAuth

  • Hosting type: Managed

Capabilities

This connector is able to do the following:

Capability

Search notebooks

Create notebooks

Create sections

Search pages

Create pages

Tools

While the capabilities above describe what the connector can do at a high level, the underlying tools show exactly which operations the agent can use when you ask Sana about Microsoft OneNote. In practice, the agent may call one or more tools to achieve a single capability.

Tool

Create notebook

Create page

Create section

Get page

Search notebooks

Search pages

Search sections

Scope and permissions

This connector uses OAuth. When you connect your account, you will need to sign into your account and grant the required permissions:

Scope

Purpose

User.Read

Read your basic Microsoft account profile (name, tenant, ID) to identify you and connect to the correct OneNote account

Email

Read your primary email address to associate the OneNote connection with your user in Sana

Offline_access

Maintain the connection and refresh tokens so Sana can keep working with OneNote without you re-authorizing every time

Openid

Use OpenID Connect for secure sign-in and identity verification with your Microsoft account

Profile

Read basic profile details (e.g. display name, avatar) to personalize the integration

Notes.Create

Create new OneNote pages and other note objects in your notebooks

Notes.ReadWrite.All

Read and edit all OneNote content you have access to (notebooks, sections, pages) so Sana can search, update, and create notes

Set up instructions

Prerequisites:

  • Your Sana workspace admin has enabled this integration – if the workspace admin has disabled the integration it won't appear in the list of available integrations.

Step 1: Go to the integrations page in Sana

In Sana, click on ... More in the sidebar, then select Integrations

Step 2: Find Microsoft OneNote in the list of available integrations

Scroll to the Available integrations section and locate Microsoft OneNote.

Step 3: Connect the integration

Click the integration card and select "Connect just for me", this will open a pop-up powered by Pipedream. Follow the steps in the pop-up to complete the set-up.

Step 4: Sign in to Microsoft OneNote and approve the requested scopes

You'll be redirected to Microsoft OneNote to go through their OAuth flow. Sign in and approve the scopes Sana needs to operate the connector.

Step 5: Complete the set up

You've successfully connected your Microsoft OneNote account. Click Continue to complete the setup and start using the connector.

Known limitations

  • Reading page content: The connector can search OneNote pages and fetch their metadata, but it cannot read the page contents.

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