No One Note obsessives like me here?
I'd like to see the native One Note app to be updated with the following:
1. Synced tags and more tag actions. We can apply and search by an unlimited number of tags on the desktop version, but only have the "to-do" checkbox on mobile. Evernote's cross-platform tagging experience is way better.
2. Ability to pin sections and notebooks, instead of just individual pages. The recently updated One Note for Android app will do that, so I'm hoping this update is in the pipeline. I get the impression that embedding OneNote into the OS like Xbox music used to be is holding back their ability to roll out frequent improvements.
3. Small tile should show title of page, like small Evernote small tiles do.
4. I'd say linked-outlook to-do support but I've pretty much given up hope for that to ever be possible. Which brings me to a bit of a rant.....
6 years ago, Outlook/OneNote 2007 on the PC was the absolute best integrated email/calendar/tasks/notes experience. Has of course been updated to 2013 and is STILL the best way to integrate those 4 things at the same time.... Assuming of course that you do ALL that stuff on one PC. Once you try to manage any part of that on web or mobile while away from your battle station it all falls apart. Sure you can sync any of those 4 things to your mobile (with A LOT of workarounds) but you lose the connections between them which is what makes them so awesome on the desktop.
Here's examples of things I could do FIVE years ago with outlook/onenote:
1. Easily convert email to task NATIVELY (not forward the damn thing to another web service to be converted to a reminder/event/task etc and live outside my mail app)
2. Easily convert mail to a calendar event. I occasionally log back into my gmail (forwarded to outlook.com of course) but I'm pretty sure you still can't easily convert to appointment there, if they've finally made it possible I highly doubt it worked as well as outlook did it generations ago. Obviously this isn't even close to being available on hotmail that they now confusingly call outlook.
3. Put a reminder to follow-up on a message (as opposed to using boomerang etc for gmail as a workaround).
4. Be writing notes in OneNote and easily be able to nest an Outlook task inline in those notes. Complete with categories, priority, context, due date, start date, reminder, etc. I could then pop open that task from the note or pop open the note from tasks. Ditto for calendar events and meeting notes.
5. Associate or nest emails with to-do's. I'm seeing a lot of popular new email handling apps for ios and android that do a watered down version of the same thing with all sorts of fanfare as if it's an amazing new idea.
We can debate about what MS is better or worse at than google or apple, but there really isn't a debate about who created the best email/calendar/tasks/notes experience ever and they did it a LONG time ago. But was it wasn't ubiquitous, it didn't sync, and it wasn't cross-platform. I get it, you have to dumb down the experience to achieve those things. But I wish they wouldn't forget their roots and keep dumbing it down even more in order to achieve perfect dumbed-down parity with google and apple. Outlook.com's mail, calendar, and tasks are basically a direct google competitor when they could have separated themselves by truly syncing REAL outlook to the web and to the phone to re-establish their king-of-PIM status.
I should be able to set an outlook task from mobile one-note. I should be able to convert an email to a note or task on mobile/web and have that just sync to my desktop. Heck, I can't even reliably sync my desktop outlook tasks to my WP, which can only be achieved through glitchy 3rd party software. Beyond that, I'm not even going to hope that their links to email and One-Note would still exist.
I keep thinking that since the REAL desktop outlook/onenote experience is still being upgraded and improved that eventually the disconnect between that and web/phone will finally go away so I can finally stop using a hodgepodge of 3rd party solutions as a crappy workaround. But I've been waiting for that for years. With each update to the web apps or phone I hope to see the dumbed down parts to finally get back to what they once were. Now I'm wondering if MS even envisions that or if they just want to keep saying 'me-to' to google and apple.
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