Supercharge your productivity

Microsoft OneNote is more than a digital notebook – it’s a one-stop catalogue of all your notes, thoughts, scribbles, flashes of inspiration, scattered journal entries and, if you’re so moved, doodled portraits of your pets.

Here are just a few of the ways this one app will help maximise your productivity.

Jot notes in history class. Drop in a picture of a recipe or a book cover. Record yourself humming a tune that you can flesh out later in GarageBand. OneNote handles all these formats.

OneNote gives you the option of securing your notes with a password or Touch ID, ensuring that you’re the only person who can access your exciting new idea for a podcast or superhero franchise.

OneNote syncs to Microsoft OneDrive, so if inspiration strikes while you’re relaxing on the couch, you can enter the grand idea on your iPhone, and it will be on your Mac the next time you open the app.

Think of OneNote as a notebook that all your friends or teammates can access at once. Collaborative tools make it simple for everyone to contribute to a single grocery list, school project or party invitation at the same time.

You no longer have to stress about drawing perfect geometric shapes; OneNote’s Convert to Shapes feature can make magnificently proportioned circles out of oblong blobs.

And all of this is included with your Microsoft 365 subscription. Which is definitely something to make note of.