Capture your thoughts, discoveries, and ideas in your very own digital notebook using OneNote for Mac. Now it is easier than ever capture your thoughts, add pictures or files, and share notes across your devices and with others. Share your notes and collaborate in real time with colleagues or friends. Type anywhere on this free-form canvas, use a digital pen to write or draw, and add pictures and files right in your notes. Whether you’re at home, in the office, or on the go, OneNote in your go-to digital notebook.
Capture Anything
• Write memos, make a digital sketchbook, or jot down notes.
• Save pictures of whiteboards, photos or printed documents in your notes. Take a picture, crop, and insert right into OneNote.
• Highlight can’t-miss notes with Important and To Do tags.
• Use a variety of digital pen colors and settings to create handwritten notes and drawings.
• Draw with confidence with tools like “Convert to Shapes” which automatically converts hand drawn shapes into crisp, perfectly regular polygons and circles.
Organize, Search and Secure
• Organize your notes in a way that works for you using tabs, labels, and color coding to keep track of all your projects.
• Create, rename, search, sort, and copy pages, sections, and entire notebooks.
• Find your most recent notes quickly and pin the pages you most use to the top.
• Secure your notes with a password and control permissions when sharing with others.
• Track daily to-dos, flag questions to raise after a meeting, or mark important points.
Collaborate and Share
• Share ideas and your notes with friends and colleagues.
• Collaborate in real time using a shared notepad.
• Sync your notes to the cloud (OneDrive, OneDrive for Business*, and SharePoint), making it easy to access your notes anywhere.
*For you to sign in to OneDrive for Business, your organization needs to have a qualifying SharePoint Online or Office 365 business subscription plan. You cannot sign in with an account from an on-premises directory.
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Best Microsoft app by far!
Mcflange
Having used earlier versions of OneNote and found them wanting, this new version really does impress! From both a personal and professional standpoint, it is a highly functional and utility-laden piece of software, which is rapidly overtaking such other services like Word or Pages as my go-to word processor. The ability to save and sync across a plethora of devices/platforms instantly, share with other software easily, and import a vast variety of data make OneNote the best Microsoft app by far!Professionally, I use OneNote Class Notebooks with students and other educators, to replace traditional Word documents and class exercise books. Being able to access students’ work anywhere, collaborate with both staff and students, and store such a variety of media makes OneNote perfect for education. From the automatic date/time stamping of pages, to not having to worry about saving due to instant syncing with the cloud, OneNote really has changed the way we do things at work.Personally, I use OneNote to keep track of home incident reports, plan trips and holidays with family and friends and QuickNotes for extended yet non-essential information. I love being able to transition between laptop, phone, tablet, and desktop whenever I want/need to and knowing that my data will be available in OneNote. Microsoft, you’ve done well here!
Superb Productivity and Life Tool
SquirrelHouseObstacle
In 2014 a colleague showed me how he used Onenote to manages his projects, teams, workflows etc and it quickly became a game changer for me, helping me keep tabs on work and shore up an aging brain.OneNote operates as your filing cabinet, and from within there you organise your various workbooks and sections, inserting anything from text to graphs to files. The key difference for me was understanding why I would use this instead of just a folder structure with documents - with OneNote you can centralise anything related to what you desire in one area. For me this made it easy to collate anything related to a project, be it emails, screenshots, miscellanous notes, documents/spreadsheets etc. all centralised in one area but with any distinguishing characteristics, timings etc.Helpful for not only keeping track of a project but also great if you leave a project or need to hand something over to a colleague/new starter - you simply hand them a virtual folder as you might have a paper file.
Horribly neutered version of the windows version of onenote
FDAApprovedCat
I use onenote with a drawing tablet to take notes for my degree, and I recently switched to mac from a windows laptop. The mac version of onenote is a buggy mess with some basic features removed. Very frequently I have found when handwriting notes, the pen randomly stops drawing on the page but rather it draws onto a fixed location on the screen (ie if you scroll at all some of what you've written doesnt move with the page), this writing also becomes impossible to erase. Eventually after trying a few random things out the app realises its mistake and fixes itself, but this effectively means I have to stop what I'm doing while I wait for this to happen, which is unacceptable. Furthermore, you can't save notebooks directly to the device - you have to use onedrive, even though the notebooks are saved locally when offline (ie they clearly have the capability to store notebooks locally like you can on windows). I don't want to become reliant on microsofts cloud services to store my files, especially when I know my university office account will likely be deleted when I finish my degree (and i'm not paying for an office subscription myself lol especially when you make software like this) which will likely mean all my files in onedrive will be deleted as well. I've also noticed that, unlike on windows, you can't export a whole section to PDF, rather you can only export a page to PDF, and when you do export to PDF the software puts no effort in to fit the notes to the page size like it does on windows. I've likely only seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to missing features but what I have discovered makes this software difficult to use.
Enjoy one note but key features are missing
Azakial
I have recently moved from a Microsoft PC and used to use OneNote as my notetaking app of choice as it is the only one that allows bullet point within a table -which is how I like to use my note. There have been two key issues which I have noticed one is that it is extremely unclear when you have multiple accounts on a Mac which won a notebook belongs to and where it is saved/backed up to. As a freelancer I use my personal laptop to also work with organisations and I had a panic that the notebook with personal information was syncing to a work account - this should be made extremely clear and have the option to sign into one or all account as you do on a PC. This feature is not here on a Mac. Secondly: I use VoiceOver to as an access accessibility feature and being able to unable to use it within OneNote isn't unacceptable barrier please fix this. I am having to move between dictation and VoiceOver to be able to do my work which has a limited feature set and I may have to stop using one note altogether. TLDR: would love to use if there weren't big privacy concerns and accessibility barriers.
This month’s update is bug fixes only.
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