Microsoft is Merging Its OneNote Apps for Windows (engadget.com) 28
Over the next 12 months, Microsoft is rolling out a series of updates for its OneNote apps on Windows with the intention of creating a single user experience. From a report: At the moment, there are two versions people can use: The OneNote app installed with Office and the OneNote for Windows 10 app available in the Microsoft Store. Microsoft will update the OneNote app with features currently exclusive to its counterpart pre-installed on Windows 10, though, and it will also give the program a visual refresh. Microsoft originally intended to kill the OneNote app when the one for Windows 10 became available, but it changed its plans and revived the app in 2019. It upgraded the note-taking program with a bunch of new features and bundled it with Office installs a year later. Now, the tech giant says it will update OneNote with visual elements that it'll share with other Windows apps as part of Microsoft's efforts to give Windows 11 a more seamless look. The merged OneNote application will also gain access to the latest Microsoft pen and ink features, as well as a new navigational UI layout option.
Let's see (Score:3)
Maybe things will turn out better than they did with the two versions of Skype.
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Your naivety is so cute. I think everyone on here will agree, we needed that laugh today.
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Shockingly enough, the fact that it was a hip, modern, truste
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I noticed that Joplin simply describes itself as an open source Evernote alternative and doesn't even mention OneNote. I suspect it has more users too.
Unified OneNote user experience (Score:2)
This is so exciting! This is what the computer industry has been clamoring and waiting for for years. Finally Microsoft delivers!
*Yawn*
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Now the publishing industry only has to write one book explaining everything.
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It still has "for dummies" in the title to be sure.
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Now the publishing industry only has to write one book explaining everything.
One book to rule them all, one book to find them, One book to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them; In the Land of Oregon where the shadows lie.
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You may be bored but I for one can't wait. As someone who uses OneNote currently there are two different versions with two different feature sets which inexplicably are being developed divergently rather than converging. I find myself switching between the two depending on what I'm doing, thank god they share a common syncing system.
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What is OneNote good for? I had to use it at the office back in the early 2010s (IIRC), and never figured out what it was good for. It seemed like everything I could do with it, I could do more easily with plain text files, or (if it required formatting) with Word. (I am not a Word fan, but that was our office's application for formatted docs.) And I seem to recall that OneNote was especially bad at formatting.
I haven't touched OneNote since that one experience, so maybe it's gotten better--for somethin
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It sounds like you're writing text, then one note isn't for you. What I use it for:
- automatically insert full meeting details including getting agendas from outlook and automatically taking attendance while I write down minutes all the while storing it directly on your corporate onedrive. (And just to go full MS on this post, the file is embedded in my Team's MS Teams Team, and no I never get tired of pointing out how stupid that sounds :-) )
- I sync realtime between devices as I scribble notes on my table
Seamlessness (Score:3)
Now, the tech giant says it will update OneNote with visual elements that it'll share with other Windows apps as part of Microsoft's efforts to give Windows 11 a more seamless look.
Let's see... For Windows 10, Microsoft has been making things more "seamless" by relentlessly working to remove any distinction between windows: No borders. No shadows. No title bar. No visual indication whatsoever for the focused window. No hints about what's clickable and what's not. It's just white rectangle stacked on white rectangle.
What can they do to make things even more seamless for Windows 11? Maybe they should make all the fonts, buttons and controls all white as well. Just a solid white screen. No seams.
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Better known as the whiteboard OS.
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Who uses it!? (Score:3)
Honestly, who the hell is even using OneNote!? We got Notepad, what more we need?
Re:Who uses it!? (Score:4, Insightful)
Notepad? Are you stuck in the 90's? Notepad++ is far superior.
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Notepad? Are you stuck in the 90's? Notepad++ is far superior.
Yes it is as a code/xml/whatever editor itt us but fir making un formatted plain text notes notepad still does just fine. And it has one more advantage, on a locked down pc ( one where you cant run sw not signed by corp it etc) you can be sure notepad is still there, ok yo'll have to find your own way of suncing notes to/from [cloud service if your choice]
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> on a locked down pc (one where you cant run sw not signed by corp it etc)
Talk about the IT dept. being out-of-touch with employee's needs.
Maybe try talking to HR about how IT is providing a "hostile" environment to getting your job done, etc.
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It's an all-in-one general purpose app that synchs with mine and my wife's phones and is easy to use. I love the thing, except... I love the old version
It does what I need it to do, and it has done it rather well, actually. I'd argue that it's probably Microsoft's most underrated app.
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Jupyter Notebook [jupyter.org] is suppose to be the open-source equivalent.
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I used to use OneNote a lot, but I switched to Joplin because I wasn't happy with it being closed source and requiring a Microsoft account.
Joplin isn't quite as good in many ways, the editor is a lot worse and it's a bit tricky to set up. I'm hopeful it will continue to get better though.
Re:Who uses it!? (Score:4, Informative)
Honestly, who the hell is even using OneNote!? We got Notepad, what more we need?
People in college who take notes on their computer. Especially nice for convertible tablet laptops. Electronic handwritten notes are incredibly convenient.
Re:Who uses it!? (Score:4, Interesting)
Lots of people use it - it's basically a freeform document container. You create a note, and you can stick literally anything in it - you can write something out, you can type other stuff, toss in a recording, or photos, and basically ti's a fancy piece of elecronic paper.
Useful in classes where you might be typing lecture notes, but hen an equation is written and it's far quicker (and more accurate) to hand-write the equation than try to type it out.
It's basically an easy way to stuff mixed media together in one place especially in situations where switching between inputs might be required.
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OneNote has been my work notebook since 2014. Before then I had dozens of physical spiral notebooks which were moderately useful for recent stuff but impossible for finding old nuggets of information.
At that time my work was a Windows-only org. I tested it for a few weeks and it became my living notebook. To this day it is my day-to-day work diary and I've been in a Mac-centric world since 2016. It's not perfect, but it is stable and works across all my devices which are all Apple these days. I can do a qui
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Your Understanding Failingly (Score:2)
The simplicity of cromulence in OneNote App and OneNote Windows merge is many wonderous failing you to understanding simplicity.
No?