Daniel Escapa blogged earlier today about a new add-in for OneNote called InstantNavigator. Instant Navigator lets you search for words and characters in the titles of your note pages, sections, section groups, and notebooks.
I like the idea of this add-in a lot. The site for the tool says InstantNavigator is designed to help you stop looking for where your notes are and instead think about what they are. That's not an idea that has been put out before. When you use the search box in OneNote, it lets you search for the content of your notes, but if the name of the section or notebook isn't on one of the pages of notes, it won't find the section itself. InstantNavigator is an attempt to change that. It allows you to search for terms in the names of the notes instead of the notes themselves. I see it working hand in glove with the search box.
For the most part, I like the tool. It is clean, clear, and easy to use. I did find a small hiccup in the tool while running it - I can expand the width of the results box, but if I expand the length of the box, it doesn't extend the length of visible results. Also, I think that the button needs a better name than "Go". Aside from those two quibbles, I think that this is going to be one of the more used tools in my OneNote arsenal.
To help you become more familiar with the tool, I recorded a short Jing to show you how it works. Excuse the frog in the throat during the recording, it is allergy season here in AZ.
Click here to view the screencast