What is Microsoft OneNote?
Microsoft OneNote is designed as a digital notebook that offers users the ability to systematically organize their notes into multiple notebooks, each of which can be subdivided into sections and pages. Its user-friendly navigation and effective search capabilities make it simple to find notes whenever necessary. You can personalize your notes by typing, highlighting, and adding ink annotations, which helps to create a unique touch. Available across all devices, OneNote ensures that no brilliant idea is ever lost, allowing for seamless access at any time. While individuals may have different thought processes, they can come together to share and collaborate on ideas within OneNote's adaptable environment. Users can categorize their content through notebooks, sections, and pages, and they can also emphasize important notes using 'Important' and 'To-Do' tags for better organization. Whether you prefer a stylus or your finger, you have the freedom to sketch your thoughts and make notes directly on the pages. Furthermore, you can record audio memos, embed online videos, and incorporate various file types to enrich your notebooks. The OneNote Web Clipper simplifies the process of saving content from the web with just a single click. You can share your notebooks with colleagues, friends, and family, making collaboration easy and effective. Educators can leverage OneNote to design lesson plans that are easily searchable, while staff members can develop a resource library that promotes sharing. Additionally, students are encouraged to take handwritten notes and create diagrams, which enhances their learning experience significantly. Ultimately, this versatile tool not only improves organization but also fosters creativity and teamwork among its diverse set of users, making it an invaluable resource in both educational and professional settings.
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The note-taking app that syces with everything Microsoft.
Date: Jan 07 2022SummaryOverall I really like using OneNote because it's free and is packed with features. Even though it syncs slow, it's easy to use and your data is always in your hands whether on your desktop, phone, or tablet.
PositiveI can sync my notes on my PC and access them on my phone very quickly and easily. Creating notes with images and links is fun and works well. Best of all it syncs to OneDrive to access all your PC files on your phone.
NegativeSometimes syncing can be slow and there are not enough sharing options like other note-taking apps.
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A satisfactory note-taking application.
Date: Feb 03 2022SummaryOverall, Microsoft OneNote is a note-taking tool which can be used multi-purposely. It allows to collaboration, making it a suitable application for professional use as well.
Positive- It is an easy-to-use tool that helps tremendously in organizing notes.
- It has useful tools that fulfill the requirements for both personal and professional use.
- Different sections can be created to organize and separate the notes.
- The user interface of the application is fluid to use because of the animation and looks pleasing to the eyes.
- It autosaves the notes, which is lifesaver features in times when the system shuts down abruptly.Negative- It limits the user in terms of integration, as it does not support third-party integration with many applications other than Microsoft's applications.
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The Ultimate Notebook!
Date: Feb 07 2022SummaryCan access from anywhere when you login to office 365. Will not disappoint! This is great for work & school!
PositiveThis is an amazing tool in keeping notes and documents at your fingertips! Easy to use, easy to add sections & pages, love this tool to keep notes and stay organized!
NegativeNo cons that I can think of honestly. I love this tool!
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Crucial note taking app.
Date: Aug 14 2021SummaryNo other note taking app has been able to replace this king. I can always carry my notes with me thanks to this app.
PositiveSyncs between devices. Works great with keyboards, styluses, and finger inputs. Many drawing options. Can add images, audio, documents.
NegativeFile size can get large. There is a bug (?) on android where typing with a keyboard does not allow you to use ctrl+b, ctrl+i, ctrl+u, ctrl+arrow left or right and other common shortcuts. I can't fathom why!!
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Useful for taking notes at various conferences
Date: Jan 18 2021SummaryEasy to use and helps organize notes extremely efficiently. You can customize and have many features. We have the ability to organize and share our meeting notes in a much better and effective way. We have the ability to share research study notes with our students and to make education and learning on the Internet simpler, and can even include diagrams that are practical. Likewise, it helps our interns in researching needs and also in the application of software with the use of support attributes.
PositiveMS OneNote is very easy to use and also helps you organize your notes in one place. You can use it in business meetings to remove minutes from the meeting, organize the notes and then share with the team, the group can work together on the notes, just as individuals can add points that may have been missed or any other type information or information. We also use it as notebooks for the courses, where the instructor can share the notes for the class in a notebook that shows the entire course to read, saves a lot of effort and everything that can be really well organized.
NegativeIt can be a little frustrating at first and is a little difficult to understand because of a number of features, but when you check and learn about shortcuts, it saves a lot of time and minimizes effort, as well as making notes really simple. Service queries can be a little challenging to fix if you don't find the option in the area.
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So close to being the ultimate Notes tool
Date: Jun 17 2021SummaryOnenote is a fantastic notes taking tool. It is available where you need it (mobile-Android), web (other operating systems then windows - linux), desktop (windows) - and it's free. However, sometimes it feels like it is trying to be everything to everyone - less could me more in this case.
Positive-Desktop/Web sync
-Cross platform availability (webapp, android, desktop win10)
-supports tables, graphics, etc.
-capture tool (chrome extension)Negative-sometimes feels like it is trying to do too much
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Small and powerful tool
Updated: Feb 04 2021SummaryOverall, Microsoft OneNote is small in size but practically very powerful and useful. Loved it! I recommend everyone to try this platform. It is easy to use and practical in features.
PositiveWhile working on projects many times we need to write notes related to them. Microsoft OneNote helps to store notes on a well organized and secured platform. Additionally, we can also backup notes in its cloud to protect and access from anywhere.
NegativeStill, it has a note backup issue, can't able to backup automatically.
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Easy way to shop and also share notes for anyone
Date: Jan 21 2021SummaryIt is a practical device that you can use at work and also in your personal life. Neve has to lose a page or risk her dog doing her homework. I am using it to produce and store conference minutes and work-related notes. OneNote is an online notepad. I love to know that you can separate information into different notebooks, pages and subpages. You can easily organize your information without the hassle of having to switch between various data and also folders. In addition, there are numerous tools and resources available to the user. You can be as outlined as you like.
PositiveI like the many features of OneNote. Makes it very easy and practical to develop notes in the workplace. You can make your notes according to the description you want and also organize them in a way that makes sense to you. In addition, you can also share your pages with others.
NegativeIn fact, I have seen that the system turns off frequently, if you have used it for a long time. Besides, I never had any problems with OneNote. It is extremely good software.
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Microsoft OneNote
Date: Apr 09 2021SummaryMicrosoft OneNote is a handy tool for taking digital notes, organizing them, and being able to easily search through those notebooks for specific notes.
PositiveMicrosoft OneNote is a great tool for organizing notes. It is extremely similar to Evernote in its capabilities.
NegativeThe notes aren't easily transferred to another account. So, while I have a work Microsoft OneNote account, I am not able to access those same notes through my personal account.
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OneNote is an incredible cloud-based documentation product.
Date: Jul 03 2021SummaryOneNote is one of the perfect cloud-based and secured documentation applications. We can save the data/clips by adding multiple pages and sharing them across the organization. It is an open-source product and easy to use it.
I'm delighted with this product. I am highly recommending it to corporate users.PositiveOur organization is using OneNote to manage employee documents in a secure and organized manner. It is beneficial for saving the data and images on a secured office 365 cloud. We can create a customize graphical dashboard to manage and analyze the activities.
We can save the data by adding multiple specific tabs with their titles. We can share the data/files across the organization.
- Great application for documentation
- Customizable graphical dashboard to analyze the progress/records.
- Data saving and sharing feature.
- Searching capability is incredible.
- We can create the slides for representation
- Friendly user interface and easy to use.
- Open-source application
- Cross-platform and highly secured Office 365 tool
- Mobile versionNegativeNothing to dislike with OneNote. Everything is working fine for me. I love this product.
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Easy way to take notes
Date: Nov 05 2020SummaryOverall Microsoft OneNote is the application, everyone needs to smartly take notes during high management meetings and team discussions.
PositiveMicrosoft OneNote is wonderful and the easiest way to take notes in your digital diary. It is a great way to note down important points during management meetings and creating detailed reports on the basis of those sticky notes anytime.
NegativeMicrosoft OneNote is best in its business and there are no issues in this application.
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Smart Digital Notebook
Date: Jul 08 2020SummaryOneNote is very interactive notebook for day to day use. It has optical character recognition in built in to it which can be used to extract the text part from any image, making it handy to notes purposes. It has very useful annotate and draw feature which is very useful in case to highlight something important. Recorded audio/video can be added to note, online video can be added. It has ability to convert Hand written contents to Texts, which is extremely useful to in case when you are taking notes through writing on the screen, which can be converted to text and shared with others. All created notes can be easily shared with other people to collaborate .
PositiveMicrosoft OneNote is the most smart note app with plenty of features which is not easy to find in a single tool. OneNote can be used to take notes , ideas, collaborate. The unique features it offers -
- Optical Character Recognition
- Setting Tag for different elements
- Draw and annotate
- Lock sensitive section of shareable docNegativeMicrosoft OneNote is one of the best digital notebook i used.
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My daily notebook tool
Updated: Nov 22 2020SummaryMy overall experience has been fantastic with being able to use the same account on cross platforms. I liked the fact that it auto uploads the note stored into the cloud.
PositiveMicrosoft OneNote is my favorite and my daily notebook tool. On a broader scale, it has great functions and offers great flexibility to organize notes and tasks. It improves work planning and management.
NegativeNo, nothing ever experienced bad with Microsoft OneNote.
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OneNote - Review
Date: Jun 12 2020SummaryMy experience with one note has been good, it really helps in taking quick notes and you can sync it to the respective calendar events. It also allows you to collaborate with multiple applications like you can put an excel spreadsheet or a video or audio file and many other formats. OneNote is a real lifesaver when it comes to working it will help in sharing the content of meetings.
On an overall level, it is a very good application and a definite recommendation but you can always explore other applications.Positive(+) It has a lot of features and the design is very good.
(+) Easy integration with calendar and sync with event post-completion.
(+) You can add images, website links, and many other formats and save it to the calendar.
(+) Outlook ecosystem, you will have 1 TB of cloud data with the paid version.
(+) Collaboration with multiple applications, you can paste a video, excel spreadsheet, and many other format files.Negative(-) Not as fast as other applications in the same domain
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(-) Formatting issues when you paste content from other sources. The same issue goes with MS Word as well.
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Great note taking and management app
Date: Aug 25 2020SummaryOverall, Microsoft OneNote is a great alternative to Evernote and works well even on smartphones with the cloud storage and sync.
PositiveMicrosoft OneNote is not just a note taking app, it offers great management features which helps you categorize and label notes in an efficient way. While taking notes it allows to add multimedia files which is great. It provides cloud storage for saving notes which can later be synced across devices. It is available on smartphones as well for using when not on desktop.
NegativeI found only one major issue which is lack of advanced text search.
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Save your daily notes in a secure platform
Updated: Aug 25 2020SummaryI got Microsoft OneNote membership from Microsoft Office 365 package. It provides the best alternate of our classic note saving techniques. Using OneNote I can easily save my notes from mobile or desktop applications.
PositiveMobile and desktop notes can be linked with each other, all thanks to the Microsoft cloud sync option. With this, I can easily read my notes on different devices simultaneously. Best note friendly user interface. Microsoft security trust.
NegativeIt's a great note tool. No cons will update if I face any.
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Best Digital Notes
Updated: Jun 30 2020SummaryWriting and saving paper notes were difficult things. But Microsoft OneNote helped me to save a note in a digital way. It let me write, save and edit from anyplace. The Notes stored can also be cloud backup, so no need to worry about losing notes.
PositiveMicrosoft OneNote is the best form of digital notes. You can also cloud backup your notes stored in Microsoft OneNote. It also scans and converts into text documents. Easy to sync and access to different devices.
NegativeMicrosoft OneNote is very useful to have. Noting to share about the con.
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Save notes on the go
Date: Nov 13 2020SummaryIt's a great tool to save notes on the go, be it your business meeting keypoints, class notes or just your regular grocery list, it has you covered.
Also allows you to highlight and format your notes which is a great addition.PositiveGreat UI/UX.
Available cross-platform for most leading platforms as an app.
Notes are saved in your personal cloud so can be accessed/edited/saved anytime anywhere and synced.
Can customise notes to highlight, mark or edit them just as you would on physical notes.NegativeNot much of a con but a limitation: cannot sync when you have no internet connection.
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Excellent Note taking app
Date: Jul 06 2020SummaryMicrosoft OneNote is the only note taking app you will ever need. It is feature rich and simple at the same time, making it ideal for both business and personal use.
PositiveEasy to use with simple interface
Outlook , OneDrive and Teams integration
Cloud based - access your notes from any device
Add Voice recording or drawing with notes
Upto 5 GB free storageNegativeIt just needs more integrations with third party apps like Google suite and others.
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Innovative Notepad
Updated: Nov 03 2020SummaryMicrosoft OneNote has lots of functions that makes it best innovative and modern online notepad to write in many different ways. The audio notes is also supported.
PositiveMicrosoft OneNote significantly helped me to store notes in any format in its synchronized cloud storage. I liked its pencil drawing and sketch mode to write notes in easy way.
NegativeNothing experience. Its best in notepad category.
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