Microsoft OneNote
By Microsoft Corporation
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Description
Chosen *Best of 2014* by Apple
Capture your thoughts, discoveries, and ideas and simplify overwhelming planning moments in your life with your very own digital notebook. With OneNote, you can plan that big event, seize that moment of inspiration to create something new, and track that list of errands that are too important to forget. Whether you're at home, in the office, or on the go, your notes are available to you across all of your devices.
-- YOUR NOTES IN YOUR STYLE --
Type anywhere on this free-form canvas and easily rearrange and move your content to any place on the page. Style your notes as you wish. Make your notes bold, italicized, or colorful and organize your content with tables.
-- CAPTURE ANYTHING --
Add pictures of recipes, your PowerPoint doc or PDF for school, links to your favorite sites, and web articles for future reference. Capture it all in OneNote and add your annotations right on top of your content.
-- POWERFUL ORGANIZATION --
Organize your notes in a way that works best for you. Create, rename, search, sort, color code, and copy pages, sections, and notebooks to organize your content as you'd like. Keep your private notes safe.
-- TAG IT --
Easily tag your notes so you can get back to them later. Track a list of your daily to-dos, flag questions to raise after a meeting, or mark the important points from a lecture.
-- THINK TOGETHER --
Share your notes with your friends and colleagues, whether you're planning a party with others or a working on a school project with your classmates. You can combine forces and all work together at the same time in a shared notebook.
-- ALWAYS WITH YOU --
Access your notes on your Mac, iPhone, iPad and other devices. Your notes are synced to the cloud (OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint) making it easy to access your recipe notes on your iPhone at the store, your homework on your Mac in class, or your itinerary on your iPad during your travels. Achieve more with OneNote.
What's New in Version 15.34
Experience the redesigned look and feel of OneNote: It's easier than ever to organize your notes with an improved layout. All of your notebooks, sections, and pages can be found in columns on the side of the app, efficiently navigable with screen readers, keyboards, and more.
Having trouble? Send feedback in the app by clicking on the smiley face in the top-right of the app.
Have an idea? Add to our feature suggestion box at https://aka.ms/onenote-mac-suggest
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Customer Reviews
Games the App Store ratings system by only asking for 5 star reviews
OneNote pops up their store rating prompt (SRP) and if you are loving the app, asks you go to to the App Store and rate 5 stars. If you aren’t loving the app, the SRP asks you to go leave feedback instead, saving low star-rating reviews from showing up in the app store. This has clearly worked to get a great rating, but it’s shady behavior and ratings abuse. I hope Apple will prohibit this behavior in the future with their new store rating API. Shame on you, OneNote!
Aside from that, the Mac app for OneNote is a joke compared to OneNote 2016 desktop. I use a Mac because I can’t stand Windows, but now I’m stuck with this kindergarten-scissors version of the OneNote app. Even the app on my iPhone is better. One specific thing I hate: the keyboard macro to paste text only is absolutely ridiculous, and I need this function a lot. Because there are almost zero options in the preferences pane for OneNote, I can’t set “paste as text only” as a default. This app is a phoned-in effort that probably only has a few devs on it and barely passes for the real OneNote experience. Power users or people who use this app at work will be severely disappointed, and I am. Based on the latest OneNote marketing, I think they are making this for actual schoolchildren. For work purposes, I’m looking at using something else.
This new layout is a swing….and a miss.
I am so disappointed with the UI change for the section tabs.
This “enhancement” simply clutters the left hand side of the page, resulting in an interface that is now distracting at best. Even if there is a segment of the user base that prefers this layout, the option to use it should be configurable. This product had very high ratings based on the original design and usability. I really wonder what value the designers thought they were adding by making such a significant change.
As a teacher, I manage classes, subjects and students and having the sections at the top of the page is much more intuitive and MUCH less cluttered than sandwiching everything on the left. It upsets the usable real estate and makes me less productive.
Finally, I keep reading that the change was made in order to keep the user experience the same across all platforms. Well, my experience WAS ALREADY the same across all platforms, with the section tabs at the TOP of the page. It seems more likely that a product manager tried to “improve” the experience for mobile phones, since there is less horizontal real estate there. By doing that it completely degraded the usability on all other platforms.
I wish I could just go back to the old version. I’d rather have that than all of the “enhancements” in this new version.
This one was indeed a swing and a miss.
That color though
I will be uninstalling Onenote if the new layout is not fixed in the next update. I am an author. I use Onenote for writing and outlining my books.
This new layout frustrates me because people’s eyes look for the edge of the left screen as a place to begin reading, which is why it should remain free of navigation, or at least have a hard line to stop your eye. The new Onenote does neither. Having the navigation on the left slows me down from finding where I want to read. The new system slows me down to the point that I would rather use a different software than Onenote. Having navigation on the right keeps it out of the way, without slowing you down because you’re eye doesn’t go to the right of the page automatically. The old navigation was better for a multitude of reasons. If you’re going to force this on new users, at least include the old navigation as an option to change under settings.
- Free
- Category: Productivity
- Updated: May 16, 2017
- Version: 15.34
- Size: 416 MB
- Languages: English, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- Seller: Microsoft Corporation
- © 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Compatibility: OS X 10.10 or later, 64-bit processor