![]() In fact, its note-creation tools are more comprehensive than Evernote's. It bristles with note-creation tools for drawing, recording audio and video, scanning images, embedding spreadsheets and reviewing the edits of others (although the abilities of those tools differ somewhat depending on the platform). (Click any image in this story to enlarge it.) OneNote offers top-notch tools for creating notes from scratch and organizing them intelligently. It lets you create simple or complex notes from scratch, organize them into searchable, browsable notebooks, and sync them among a variety of platforms, including Windows PCs, Macs, iPads and iPhones, Android devices and the web. OneNote is very much a full-blown application. In this review, I look at the desktop version of OneNote, because the UWP app has far fewer features. However, the company changed course in late 2019, announcing that it will continue to add new features to desktop version of OneNote and that the desktop version will once again be included with Office 365 as of March 2020. That’s because Microsoft had planned to kill the desktop app and focus instead on the UWP app. ![]() As I write this, the desktop version, although available for free as a separate download, is not included with Office 2019 or Office 365. Note that there are two versions of OneNote for Windows: a desktop app and a Windows 10 app, also known as a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app. I spend more time on the Windows version of each, but I’ll note similarities and differences in other versions as well. This isn't a deep-dive review, but rather a personal look at what I like and don't much like about each - and the main points of difference between the two. I'm a longtime user of both applications, so I've taken a look at the latest version of each for Windows, macOS, iPad, iPhone and Android. But they also have some very distinct differences. OneNote and Evernote are available for all the major desktop and mobile OSes, they can each sync your notes to all of your devices and the web, and both promise to be the only note-taking app you need. (Microsoft hasn’t released user numbers for OneNote, but between Office and Windows 10, more than a billion users likely have a version of it installed on their machines.) Evernote launched in 2008 and has enjoyed steadily increasing user numbers since then the company now says it has 225 million users worldwide. Launched in 2003, OneNote was added to Microsoft Office in 2007 and is now bundled with Windows 10 and also offered for free as a standalone product. If you found this useful then check out my section dedicated to OneNote related topics.Īlso, if you’re looking to super-charge your productivity then I have a book in the works that will help you Get Stuff Done with OneNote.There are two leading contenders for the crown: Microsoft’s OneNote and the independent Evernote. That is to say with OneNote you have even more options to tag your content for rapid retrieval. Tags can also be placed in titles so with OneNote you have two ways to tag your content, page level and content level. You can then filter on the tags using the Find Tags feature to find what you’re looking for. Tags in OneNote allow you to mark individual pieces of content within the page. It’s also worth mentioning that OneNote’s internal tagging system gives you even more searching power. I can never remember if it’s a ‘key’, ‘serial’ or ‘licence’ I’m searching for but with this method I don’t need to remember. The human readable part helps when manually scanning through a section to find your page but with the extra keywords the search will also pick up on the other words and prioritise them in the results. When creating a new page – particularly something that I want to refer back to – I’ll start with a human readable title but then also place other similar words that reflect what I’m storing at the end. If you’re coming over to OneNote from Evernote you might immediately miss the ability to tag your pages as you’re used to.Įvernote’s page level tagging is a powerful feature but what you may not know is that you can effectively emulate this feature in OneNote too.īecause OneNote’s search facility prioritises keywords in a title you simply need to load up your title with keywords that you’ll use to find the page again.įor example: I have a number of pages in my reference notebook that contain serial numbers for software. OneNote prioritising keywords in a search
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