Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Microsoft Releases OneNote as a Free Mac App Store Download

zhenya said:
Yeah, no. The ribbon easily collapses to take the same space as the traditional menu interface when not in use, yet makes the vast majority of tools a 1-2 click affair as opposed to digging through nested menus. It's the best thing they've done to Office in years.

Everybody claims to like toolbars or tool palates, the Ribbon is just a collection of them.
Click to expand...

I have to admit, I was prepared to hate the ribbon based on all I had heard from friends for a few years. When i had to use it I was perplexed with the issues. I had to learn where a few things moved, but overall I was fine with it.
 
aristotle said:
Do you have a reading comprehension problem? The ribbon interface was introduced back in 2007. The ribbon interface, in all of its forms, is an example of bad UI design. It took a dramatic turn for the worse in Office 2013 because the lack of depth and contrast because much worse in that iteration

What is your point of posting here other that blindly defending Microsoft and their poor UI decisions? I have to work with their stuff every day. Do you have a job in a microsoft "shop"? If not, then your opinion is irrelevant.

If you had read more closely, you would have noticed that my main complain of the Ribbon concept is how Microsoft has arbitrarily grouped unrelated functions under the same tab because of space constraints. That was not a problem with the menu. The menu was hierarchical which meant that functions were grouped by groups and sub groups while everything is flattened into a tab now and it can take more time to find what you are looking for.

Microsoft should offer the user the option to use either a ribbon OR the menu and toolbars. They instead decided for the user which is arrogant.
Click to expand...

It appears that you not only have a reading comprehension problem but never actually used Office 2011 on the Mac because both the menu along side the ribbon is available and you can minimise the ribbon so that it uses up less space. Office 2011 has its issues, lord knows I've been there and walked through the valley of death with that one but I grin and bear every moment of it. If you're whining about Office 2013 for Windows then this isn't the place to do it - this is a Mac forum where we talk about Mac products - if you want to talk about Windows and your tales of woe regarding Office 2013 then by all means join up to Arstechnica or Neowin and treat that as your forum to air your grievances on.
 
Revearti said:
No thanks. I'll stick with Evernote.

MS, you are super late to many things. I'll let other people be the lab rats with your products for a loooong time before I even bother investing my time into them. You should of taken your billions and innovated earlier instead of vacationing on the success of the 90's for a decade or more.
Click to expand...

Yeah, see that's my issue. In addition to currently living a Microsoft-free business life, even if I wanted to start using One Note it's near impossible at this point for me to just dump Evernote. All my business note files are in Evernote and I can't import them into One Note.

My biggest problem with Microsoft is when they can't accomplish monopolizing the tech world with certain products they are trying to push then they turn to the underdog to get their stuff out there. Case in point, since the Surface has had less than luke warm success then all of a sudden we're starting to see support for the iPad and Mac that wasn't gonna happen until hell froze over. Eff U Microsoft.
 
johnmcboston said:
What does Evernote do poorly and/or OneNote do better? (curious - i've never used ON)
Click to expand...

I think it's note-taking capability is on par, but I'm one of the people grandfathered in with a 25GB SkyDrive - ooops - OneDrive account. I keep bumping up against my space limit with (free) Evernote....don't think I'll have that problem with OneNote.
 
OneNote for Mac in the app store is free and will remain so

scottish said:
Description says "Now available for free for a limited time".
Click to expand...

This was just a mistake in the marketing materials. We're having that text removed now. This is the free version of OneNote for the Mac and will always remain so. In the future we may add as part of the Office for Mac suite some additional premium features (purchased as part of your purchase of the suite). This free app store version will always be free.

David Rasmussen [Microsoft]
 
Last edited:
Only works with oneddrive!

I thought, "great, now I can open up my old** OneNote Notebook on my Mac!"

No such luck -- this only opens notebooks on Microsoft OneDrive.

(**For the past two years I've not used OneNote anyway and have brought a Mac into work to use Circus Ponies Notebook.)
 
I can't believe how negative everyone is on here !

You don't have to use this software you know !

I for one am glad it has been released and it will be great to now use OneNote on my PC and Mac..

Hope this is an indicator that the next version of Office for Mac is also coming soon..
 
This is terrific news to me. I have a variety of devices (Win8, WinRT, WP8, Android, iOS, OSX) where I need access to certain "core information". I was an early user of EverNote and somewhat of a fan until it became bogged down with "feature-creep" and a cheesy bird mess of a UI.

I ended up settling for things like Notesy, nvAlt, and dropbox sync to manage text-only information.

Having OneNote available (with the superior non-MS Outline+ for iOS access to OneNote notebooks) on all of those platforms is huge for me.
 
talmy said:
I thought, "great, now I can open up my old** OneNote Notebook on my Mac!"

No such luck -- this only opens notebooks on Microsoft OneDrive.

(**For the past two years I've not used OneNote anyway and have brought a Mac into work to use Circus Ponies Notebook.)
Click to expand...

Doesn't anyone read the posts [link] The limited time statement is incorrect.
 
Nickerbocker said:
Do you happen to have Office 2011 for Mac installed? If not, it may have the required component to display equations. Hopefully this issue is considered to be a bug by MS.
Click to expand...

I do not currently, I will have to look into that. Does anyone else have Office 2011 for Mac and OneNote, and can see equations written in OneNote?
 
Size

Microsoft OneNote is 235MB
Evernote is 49.5MB

Still amazes me how MS can code such elephants.
 
Michael Goff said:
Then you should wait a few days and wait for a review, or find a friend with a Microsoft account that will let you use theirs. This is a product tied in with OneDrive, it's going to be designed as such.
Click to expand...

"Yes" he said while drumming his fingers and waiting rather impatiently.
;)
 
I'm guessing the App will might always be free and they will charge for the backend service. Wouldn't that be more inline with what they are trying to do? Becoming a device and services company?
 
axual said:
Microsoft OneNote is 235MB
Evernote is 49.5MB

Still amazes me how MS can code such elephants.
Click to expand...

Ummm, have a look through the package contents, particularly the Frameworks one - that'll give you clues as to why it is the size that it is.
 
It's OK. Seems better at emulating a paper notepad than Evernote, because you can type anywhere and quite easily make tables and such, but for text notes I'm staying with Evernote.

I find it all too tempting to jazz my notes up and make them look nice, but that's antithetical to what a notepad should be - a quick and dirty way of getting things down for later use. It's not bad at all; the UI is very pretty and the software is intuitive, but I think it's overkill for a 'proper' note app.
 
I find this app very unintuitive. I used the basic Journal app for a while and it was very easy to figure out

I just spent about five minutes trying to figure out how to select stationery.
I didn't even see the word, and when I do a search in Help it doesn't even give me a hit. Tells me i'm a bad speller or something (they got that right at least)

Ok so I'm missing something, but geesh, it's just not working ut for me :D
 
From reading the website it seems you can't store anything on your computer's hard drive, only in the cloud, is this true?

I'm not a fan of saving my documents in the cloud.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back