10 compelling reasons to start using OneNote

[Kevin Rush]

You can use OneNote as an audio recorder to record meetings/seminars. I go back later and review for clarification and missed points.

If it is a webinar, I take occasional screen shots along with the audio. When playing back, OneNote syncs the audio and screen shots.

 

[Moskigirl]

I never got the hang of OneNote.
Maybe I don't need to take notes of any kind.

For collaborative projects I prefer Google Drive because it lets me choose wether I need a document, a presentation or a spreadsheet.
And overall it's more suitable I think.

On the other hand, maybe Microsoft should do a video tutorial on OneNote best practices. I've recently watched the one for Outlook and it litteraly changed my life haha

 

[Kevin Rush]

I never got the hang of OneNote.
Maybe I don't need to take notes of any kind.

For collaborative projects I prefer Google Drive because it lets me choose wether I need a document, a presentation or a spreadsheet.
And overall it's more suitable I think.

On the other hand, maybe Microsoft should do a video tutorial on OneNote best practices. I've recently watched the one for Outlook and it litteraly changed my life haha

More suitable for you, not necessarily everyone. Seems like you are talking about web apps and internet storage space.
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OneNote can be a web app but can also be a local app on your mobile device and also you can install (for free) the actual PC software version. Your OneNote information syncs on all of them to be available on all of them and is searchable on all of them. Very powerful and thus very useful. This works for shared OneNote notebooks too, for collaboration.
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The "search" feature across all notebooks is so powerful. Makes it easy to find notes / information.

 

[garisa]

One question. How do you lock a section? I tap-hold the section tab, and the Lock Protected Sections option is pale, I cannot choose it. I assume that I first have to make this section protected, and then I would have the option or something like that.

Phone language is English and region is Serbia, though I don't think that it matters. And yeah, I appear to be receiving application updates as I am on Release preview insider, but I believe that out doesn't matter either.

Thanks in advance!

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[garisa]

I figured that out, it can be done with OneNote 2016 which is free and can be downloaded from onenote.com.

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[LyricalNonsense]

The ability to sync between devices and work with others on notes and lists and more, especially with the powerful word processor, makes for a very good service.

- M

 

[Moskigirl]

I used to have the free OneNote and OneNote2016 and they wouldn't sync together.

 

[garisa]

I don't get what you mean. OneNote 2016 is also free, but I believe that under the free one you mean on the UWP one. Anyway, they both sync perfectly to be.

Too bad Outlook 2016 isn't free as well...

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[Moskigirl]

ok I didn't know both were free, the OneNote 2016 came with the Office package, that's why I assumed it was a paid version. They look different though, even the icon.

EDIT: ok I just checked and the other one is the OneNote app. Both are installed on my laptop.

 

[garisa]

Yeah, they are definitely different. In fact, OneNote 2016 is much better regarding features, that's for sure. Gote example, as. I learned here - in OneNote 2016 you can lock a section, while in the UWP app you cannot. That's just one example, but I didn't have much time to explore.

When it comes to syncing, I agree those two can have some issues. I always try not to use the two at the same time. When I use the 2016 one, I wait for everything to sync first, then do what I want to do, and then again I wait to be sure that it has finished the syncing. Fortunately, I haven't had any serious issues - I only saw once one if my sections duplicated, and I saw free times hope it created a new section in the notebook called "new section" which I deleted after that.

Hopefully they will solve these things. In theory, OneNote should support several people sharing a same notebook. I working l wouldn't dare to test with my important notes what would happen if few people edited some stuff in it at the same time.

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