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Microsoft Releases OneNote as a Free Mac App Store Download

DavidRas said:
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]
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Your original posting alluded to a tie-in for a clipper for several browsers. I searched for the clipper for my Forefox, but failed to locate any. I did find the clipper for Safari, and it worked fine. (https://www.onenote.com/Clipper/OneNote) Is this out to the public yet?
 
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OS X Dude said:
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.
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I don't find OneNote's flexibility there to 'jazz' up my notes, but rather that it functions much more like a scrapbook where I can place any element anywhere that I want to make the notebook usable and logical whereas Evernote confines me to the same type of structural format as a Word document. Once you're freed from those constraints it becomes so much easier to add all sorts of useful content to your notes.
 
I have been looking in the interface and the help files but I do not seem to find a way to do a tag search (like search for all todos...)

anybody knows how to do this?
 
dumastudetto said:
I'm proud of Apple's note taking solution. I don't think it's cool to dismiss it's elegance and power so fragrantly on an Apple fan community website.
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It's a graphically spruced-up Text editor with online sync. If you had any idea what modern note apps allowed you would see how ludicrous the comparison is.
 
The fact that it's available on the App Store is... interesting, to say the least.

Does this mean Office 2014 might be on the App Store? With Apple taking a cut? I thought Microsoft was adamantly against that.
 
zhenya said:
I don't find OneNote's flexibility there to 'jazz' up my notes, but rather that it functions much more like a scrapbook where I can place any element anywhere that I want to make the notebook usable and logical whereas Evernote confines me to the same type of structural format as a Word document. Once you're freed from those constraints it becomes so much easier to add all sorts of useful content to your notes.
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The point I made was that I get tempted to, because the features are there. I can touch-type at over 100 words per minute and make bullet-point notes, because it means I can focus totally on the task at hand whilst also making succinct and easy to follow notes.

If you can draw freehand on the iOS apps, then that's a major plus over Evernote, but otherwise I don't want the extra features, because I'll get distracted with them. I realise that may sound laughable, but that's how I work.
 
lunarworks said:
The fact that it's available on the App Store is... interesting, to say the least.

Does this mean Office 2014 might be on the App Store? With Apple taking a cut? I thought Microsoft was adamantly against that.
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Why would this say anything about the next Office? This is a free product, Office is not. Apple gets nothing for every OneNote download from their store.

Edit: OneDrive is on the MAS as well.
 
Total crap, this doesn't even have 1/10th the functionality of the Windows version (or Evernote, for that matter). If I can't insert office documents, I won't use it. It's totally pointless.

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lunarworks said:
The fact that it's available on the App Store is... interesting, to say the least.

Does this mean Office 2014 might be on the App Store? With Apple taking a cut? I thought Microsoft was adamantly against that.
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Other Microsoft products (such as the Windows Phone Connect thing, Microsoft Remote Desktop etc.) have been on the App Store for months already.
 
kis said:
Total crap, this doesn't even have 1/10th the functionality of the Windows version (or Evernote, for that matter). If I can't insert office documents, I won't use it. It's totally pointless.
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Apparently that feature is coming, according to a MS guy in The Verge's comments.

lunarworks said:
The fact that it's available on the App Store is... interesting, to say the least.

Does this mean Office 2014 might be on the App Store? With Apple taking a cut? I thought Microsoft was adamantly against that.
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Microsoft is moving to subscription-only eventually. I could see it being "free" on the MAS but requires an Office 365 subscription to use.
 
Downloaded and played around One Note a little. I did have a few Notebooks set up on my iPad, which originally were set up regionally in Office 2010 and then maintained in OneNote 2013 on my Windows Laptop which I haven't used on that machine in at least a year since I use my MacBook 90% of the time. All my Notebooks synced perfectly in to One Note on the Mac via OneDrive and so far I am liking it a lot.

Now if Office 2014 for the Mac is just as slick AND they come out with the iPad version of Office I will most definitely re-instate my Office 365 subscription.

I have also been using the Outline app for iPad and the Mac, and it is a very nice program as well. The only problem I have with that app is that on the Mac it crashes all the time. So far One Note has not crashed.

I am happy to see that Microsoft may be giving the Mac and iPad some attention, BUT at the same time I am not holding my breath that the Mac Apps will be on the same level as the Windows versions.

I am also a Premium Evernote user. Evernote is great for basic notes but I do prefer the One Note UI and the ability to do all the formatting. The only problem is that until now, Evernote was the only one that was available on all the devices I use.
 
starbird said:
Same here. Microsoft's web page also was not able to help.

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Found it on another Apple Blog

https://www.onenote.com/Clipper/OneNote
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Thanks for the link, just what I was looking for.

Having set the clipper short cut up, it does work. One slight annoyance is that the clip isn't sent directly to the application; instead the clip uses your Microsoft Account to add the clip to your OneDrive/MS Cloud hosted notebook, the change then synced back to your notebook with the attendant delay whilst it happens.

Clip > Cloud > Local OneNote + Synced Devices where the clip was taken, rather than the more ideal Clip > local OneNote > Cloud + Synced Devices.
 
Cougarcat said:
Apparently that feature is coming, according to a MS guy in The Verge's comments.



Microsoft is moving to subscription-only eventually. I could see it being "free" on the MAS but requires an Office 365 subscription to use.
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In other words, this is a normal 1.0 release? :p
 
ScottNWDW said:
I am also a Premium Evernote user. Evernote is great for basic notes but I do prefer the One Note UI and the ability to do all the formatting. The only problem is that until now, Evernote was the only one that was available on all the devices I use.
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My circumstance exactly. Hopefully OneNote mac can be updated quickly to gain parity with it's Windows version - embedding Office docs, system wide Sent To OneNote function etc.
 
Brenster said:
Thanks for the link, just what I was looking for.

Having set the clipper short cut up, it does work. One slight annoyance is that the clip isn't sent directly to the application; instead the clip uses your Microsoft Account to add the clip to your OneDrive/MS Cloud hosted notebook, the change then synced back to your notebook with the attendant delay whilst it happens.

Clip > Cloud > Local OneNote + Synced Devices where the clip was taken, rather than the more ideal Clip > local OneNote > Cloud + Synced Devices.
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Good point. Seems everyone is taking the cloud route no matter the path these days.
 
so I downloaded it and tried to open a oneNote document in my dropbox which I created on my PC. doesn't work.............. what bs is this?
 
ArsTechnica have a good write up on the OneNote mac application with a good shortlist of the missing functionality relative to the Windows application, namely:

While the OneNote for Mac application is pretty good, the Windows version remains more feature-rich. The free OneNote 2013 application for Windows has all the same features of the version that comes bundled with Office, including several that the Mac version lacks. Here's a list of what you can do in OneNote 2013 that you can't do in OneNote for Mac:

  • Insert file attachments, online images, or images directly from scanners
  • Insert recorded audio or video
  • Insert symbols or equations
  • View detailed information on revisions and what users those revisions were made by
  • Use drawing tools
  • Send screen captures or text clips to OneNote through the "Send to OneNote" add-on
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Cougarcat said:
:confused: This doesn't make any sense at all. How many times do you use a version of OneNote that isn't on your computer?
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OneNote can be on your work computer, school computer, friend's computer, internet cafe, ...

Cougarcat said:
A forced-ribbon UI is terrible for 11" and 13" MacBooks. It's OK for larger screens (though I still dislike it.) Not all screens and user's needs are created equal.
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Well, I like it (even on smaller displays) and hate Office 2003 like menus, although I still prefer iWork's UI over all of them.
 
Well I think we just got ourselves a very early preview at the next Office for mac. Im a little underwhelmed by the release to be quite honest, it comes accross as very feature stripped compared to its windows counterpart. I have not used it for very long, but thats just my initial impression.
 
Did anyone else notice this in the announcement on Microsoft's blog? They probably have no information regarding a future version of OS X, but just thought it was a curious statement to say.
 

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Newbie question

I have not used Onenote before, but am interested in Onenote for Mac and iPad. But I have a question. If I create a notebook on either the Mac or iPad, do I have to have internet access to read it. I am thinking about using Onenote for trip planning, but I will not always have internet access when I might want to refer to the notebook. Thanks for your help with this question.
 
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