If you haven’t used OneNote before, spend time with some tutorials like this one to get oriented.) Why is OneNote lonely and confused? More information about that in this article. That means you have to navigate your way through the confusion of Microsoft’s two different types of accounts and two different flavors of OneDrive. (Note for new users: OneNote stores everything in notebooks that use a special format designed to be synced online through OneDrive. Four years ago Microsoft committed to making OneNote free everywhere, so you can download and install OneNote completely for free anywhere you want to use it. There is a full-featured version of OneNote that you can use online in a browser as well as versions of OneNote for every device you can imagine – iPhones and iPads, Android phones and tablets, Windows PCs, and Macs. Maybe the real secret is that it’s a great classroom tool so it’s an important part of Microsoft’s efforts to stay relevant in education. There must be a coterie of Microsoft employees who share that vision of OneNote as the hidden jewel in Microsoft’s productivity programs, because it has continued to be developed and pushed. I found that most people didn’t care and never used it, so like other true believers, I use OneNote every single day. I was a OneNote evangelist for quite a while, convinced that almost everyone would benefit if they spent a few minutes learning how the program works. It has now outlasted Evernote, at one time its primary competitor Evernote is dealing with years of bugs, breaches, and privacy controversies and is retrenching, hoping to make a go of it with a fresh start and a new CEO. It has been included by default with every version of the Microsoft Office suite for the last ten years. The more you use it, the more useful it becomes. You can keep things organized or create a freeform jumble and search for things later (everything is immediately searchable). It keeps anything you want to put into it – scraps of information, handwritten notes, lists, web links or full web pages, photos, videos, files, audio clips, whatever. It collects your notes and lets you find them later. OneNote is Microsoft’s program for free-form note-taking and collaboration. Take a look from a different angle and OneNote is thriving – installed more often than you realize, available on every platform for free, and continually being improved with new features. Oh, and if you’re a OneNote user, the version you’re almost certainly using on your PC is on its last legs and someday will be discontinued.īut this is Microsoft-world, where nothing is straightforward and the same words are used to mean many different things. Microsoft OneNote isn’t on the Office team these days, at least not like it has been for the last ten years when it was installed alongside Word and Excel as a full-fledged Office program.
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