How to prevent OneNote 2013 from constantly respawning the “Quick Notes” section

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I'm trying to use OneNote 2013 to start organizing everything in my job. Every time I delete the "Quick Notes" section, it immediately is recreated. I want it gone forever. Anyone know how I can accomplish this?

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Best Answer

One solution I found is running a script that deletes the Quick Notes.one file in %userprofile%\Documents\OneNote Notebooks\My Notebook periodically. It doesn't appear that there is an option to disable it being recreated.

Another option comes from one of the replies in this thread on the Microsoft forums:

I had to look back at how I did this on my OneNote. Open OneNote. Go to File, then select Options. Choose Save & Backup on the left of the window that opens. At the top of this window there should be a Save section and you will see Quick Notes Section, Backup Folder and Default Notebook Location and the location.

Change Quick Notes Section to another existing section in your OneNote. I made Quick Notes section refer to my Daily notes section that I type daily notes into and a Quick Notes section tab never appears on it's own anymore. Hope this helps.

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