OneNote is now free

BarkingGhostar

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I never really understood OneNote as an application. I just built the wife a new PC for working at home, used the Student and Teacher version of Office which comes with OneNote, but didn't install that component. In fact, that one component never gets installed. Ignorance is bliss, I guess.
 

FoxFifth

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I never really understood OneNote as an application. I just built the wife a new PC for working at home, used the Student and Teacher version of Office which comes with OneNote, but didn't install that component. In fact, that one component never gets installed. Ignorance is bliss, I guess.

I have been using and am happy with Evernote as it has always run on all of my devices (Windows, Mac, iPhone) and has been free -- but it's possible that is also ignorance as I'm not familiar with OneNote.
 

Chiefcrowe

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I don't really use it but it seems to me that it would probably have better integration with office?
 
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I have been using and am happy with Evernote as it has always run on all of my devices (Windows, Mac, iPhone) and has been free -- but it's possible that is also ignorance as I'm not familiar with OneNote.

From what I've gathered, Evernote is more for post-it type of note taking while Notepad is more for college-rule notebook type of note taking. If that makes sense.

I work in IT and remotely work on workstations, so I mainly use OneNote for screenshots. It also comes in very handy when mocking up new ideas and sending out to the team.
 

Imaginer

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From what I've gathered, Evernote is more for post-it type of note taking while Notepad is more for college-rule notebook type of note taking. If that makes sense.

I work in IT and remotely work on workstations, so I mainly use OneNote for screenshots. It also comes in very handy when mocking up new ideas and sending out to the team.

Multiple (can be passworded) sections shared across multiple users, with each section having as many pages as needed. You can have an array of highlighting marks, keyboard inputs, diagramming, copy and paste images and picture files, exporting to any major format (a section or page can be exported to .doc, .docx, .pdf) and you can basically draw to a huge degree in a much better form (depending on the device) than in Evernote due to the Ink api on some devices and systems. (things discernable would be varying line strengths for one)

OneNote does have some syncing. I.E. a person contributes to a notebook, about a few minutes later depending on the network, another user can see the synced changes. An interesting thing for the moment, if two people are writing on the same physical location of a page, once synced - both their content would overlap.

Evernote from my experiences on the Kindle fire, is just a simple 99 cent post it notepad to write in in comparison to the "Trapper Keeper" of note taking (and then some). You write stuff in a page, but there isn't differentiating sections, added pages, or insertion of a variety of content, much less a way of sharing things - which can be accessed via web browser or a dedicated install of OneNote.

OneNote, is definitely something I would have appreciated in school and college. It is something I appreciate now for getting ideas down and collaboration in a non linear manner.
 
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Chiefcrowe

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Thanks for the posts.. I should start using it, it seems pretty handy! like the password options.
I have seen the 2010 version a bit but never started using it.
 

heymrdj

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Multiple (can be passworded) sections shared across multiple users, with each section having as many pages as needed. You can have an array of highlighting marks, keyboard inputs, diagramming, copy and paste images and picture files, exporting to any major format (a section or page can be exported to .doc, .docx, .pdf) and you can basically draw to a huge degree in a much better form (depending on the device) than in Evernote due to the Ink api on some devices and systems. (things discernable would be varying line strengths for one)

OneNote does have some syncing. I.E. a person contributes to a notebook, about a few minutes later depending on the network, another user can see the synced changes. An interesting thing for the moment, if two people are writing on the same physical location of a page, once synced - both their content would overlap.

Evernote from my experiences on the Kindle fire, is just a simple 99 cent post it notepad to write in in comparison to the "Trapper Keeper" of note taking (and then some). You write stuff in a page, but there isn't differentiating sections, added pages, or insertion of a variety of content, much less a way of sharing things - which can be accessed via web browser or a dedicated install of OneNote.

OneNote, is definitely something I would have appreciated in school and college. It is something I appreciate now for getting ideas down and collaboration in a non linear manner.

We as a company use One Note as our standard documentation system. All the one notes are stored in a Sharepoint farm in a datacenter. We can actually work on the same page at the same time, the syncs are literally a second or three apart. Yes someone can still overlap technically, but it's rare that someone decides to start a paragraph at the exact same point that you do in the exact cluster of 1-3 seconds that you do.
 

joejoe666

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i downloaded this and i can't move notebooks to my hd? or can't convert tables to excel spreadsheets. it keeps saying this version on onenote cannot do it.

so this is not the full blown version?

i alreadyhave a office 2010 professional, should i uninstall this 2013 version?
 
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joejoe666

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^^skydrive. and i cannot move them to the HD

the main reason i wanted 2013 version is for the "convert to excel" feature. is reason that feature does not work because my excel is 2010? can someone please download and try it for me?
 
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Imaginer

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I haven't tried this one yet but where are the notebooks saved if not your hd?

They are by default on the skydrive/onedrive. You can save notebooks anywhere, either on the skydrive/onedrive or on a local storage.

But, if you change the notebooks to "available offline", when you sync, you get the latest version to work locally as long as you want offline - and syncing it would place the latest changes you have done when you have an internet connection online. This applies to notebooks stored on the skydrive/onedrive.
 

joejoe666

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more info on the free version...

"The new free version of OneNote for the Windows desktop doesn't include all the features in the paid version. It doesn't have SharePoint support, version history or Outlook integration. To get those features, users need to upgrade to the paid version. It's also worth noting that the free version is ad-free, not a temporary trial version, and limited to home/school use only"

I will revert back to onenote 2010 and delete 2013