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Microsoft Releases OneNote as a Free Mac App Store Download
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Of course I won't, but I am just disappointed from Microsoft (once again). They could do so much better. The Windows version of OneNote is very good, and I prefer it over Evernote, mainly because of its notebook organization options. Web clipping isn't that good on Windows too.
If you are pleased with Evernote then you shouldn't give it up. I gave up Evernote quite a while ago because of the increasingly convoluted UI. A reduced function OneNote is preferable to me than that.
I'm willing to give them some time. The fact that it is finally available for OSX is a "good thing" (tm).
Hey, David. Any chance OneNote may have a local store in the future, maybe open/create .ONE files from Windows? Was excited to roll this out in our organization, but it's kinda useless for the enterprise at the moment to be honest.
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Unfortunately you can't insert files into it and you can't save/open files locally with it either. It's either reduced feature set for Mac (i.e. gotta go Windows to get the feature set) or v1.0 or both.
In "Add Accounts", 365 seems to be blocked. Normally I would "Open In OneNote" on my PC.
You can't do this on a Mac because there is no Active X in Safari.
The Open In OneNote is disabled in Safari.
This is why I use my Outlook account.
UpDate;
"Nicole_fromOneNote
Thanks for the feedback folks! This first version of OneNote for Mac is consumer focused. However we hear the Office 365 and SharePoint support request loud and clear. We are working on it for a future version. Stay tuned and please keep the feedback coming."
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I just read those comments by Rasmussen - he nowhere says the feature is coming. He merely thanks some guy for suggesting it :-(
I'm sticking with my previous assessment: unusable compared to Evernote
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It's seems to be the former, unfortunately
After considerable mucking about with it, we managed to get it to OCR an image. It was a static image of a web page clipped via the browser extension. A text search would find text on the page but no text on the page was selectable (to copy, etc.).
No local storage
I really hope that in their next update MS enables local storage!! I would love to use this for work, but I can't put work related stuff on a 3rd party cloud server. So until that gets fixed it will be used only for personal stuff, which will be 1%. Uggg MS!!!!
I really hope that in their next update MS enables local storage!! I would love to use this for work, but I can't put work related stuff on a 3rd party cloud server. So until that gets fixed it will be used only for personal stuff, which will be 1%. Uggg MS!!!!
One Note vs Evernote
My opinion:
- I wish I could say Evernote was better, but I can't! I hope this pushes them to improve. Especially since I pay them. Formatting in Evernote is and always has been pretty bad. Cutting and pasting information into or out of there is such a crap shoot. Tables are craptacular. On top of that, every time I create a note, the title disappears when it syncs.
- I'm not a fan of MS, but OneNote looks good! 3D ribbon buttons are fine on OSX (well, not really, but they're OK) but they look awful on the iPad version.
- Syncing is slow but works fine. I'd like to see how that works with many users on a shared notebook.
- I pay for Evernote ($45 a year). If MS can charge no more than $100 for OneNote and Office together as a subscription, they might win me over.
- I wouldn't leverage this until I find out what they're going to charge. Because M$
My opinion:
- I wish I could say Evernote was better, but I can't! I hope this pushes them to improve. Especially since I pay them. Formatting in Evernote is and always has been pretty bad. Cutting and pasting information into or out of there is such a crap shoot.
Tables are craptacular. On top of that, every time I create a note, the title disappears when it syncs.- I'm not a fan of MS, but OneNote looks good! 3D ribbon buttons are fine on OSX (well, not really, but they're OK) but they look awful on the iPad version.
- Syncing is slow but works fine. I'd like to see how that works with many users on a shared notebook.
- I pay for Evernote ($45 a year). If MS can charge no more than $100 for OneNote and Office together as a subscription, they might win me over.
- I wouldn't leverage this until I find out what they're going to charge. Because M$
My initial impression is that this is a good first version. Plenty of room for improvement but it is promising. I have a love/hate relationship with Evernote. I've love to love it but it has just never worked for me - poor formatting mostly. The formatting and layout abilities in OneNote for Mac far surpass Evernote. The interface is excellent for a Microsoft product.
Syning is sluggish for me. Biggest missing feature for me is the inability to attach or embed other files into a note.
Syning is sluggish for me. Biggest missing feature for me is the inability to attach or embed other files into a note.
OneNote is free
You can get a 365 subscription for 5 computers for $90 from retailers like Newegg. One computer is $70. No Publisher or Access though on the Mac.
It looks really nice and something I would really use a lot but, alas, my faithful old white MacBook can't install Mavericks so I can't have this either. But just as soon as I can afford to upgrade my MacBook...
Yes. The interface now is very similar to the one found in the Windows Office. Hopefully the new Mac Office will catch up with its Windows sibling. Finally.
Eh, I was referring to Mac software being tried and true. One Note is tried and true on Windows. This article isn't about Windows software now is it?
Then Evernote isn't tried and true either? ..
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Then just go to View and turn off the ribbon?
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Yes, I have a reading comprehension problem because I see the value in the ribbon after the changes that were made to it? Do I have a job in a Microsoft shop...yes, I do.
Blindly defending Microsoft? WTF is wrong with this community? I'm here to discuss Apple products, which I love, by the way. Not to bash everything under the sun because I don't see the value in it, no matter who makes it. Just cannot believe that I have Android trolls on one side who annoy me constantly and on the other, people who aren't even capable of having a conversation without resorting to insulting, pedantic, nonsense.
Microsoft is arrogant by deciding for the user? What would that make Apple then? Regardless, the ribbon now is just an extension of what used to be the menu. AND YOU CAN REMOVE IT IF YOU JUST GO TO "VIEW"...
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OneNote is more of a prosumer/business app than Evernote is. Its functionality extends a bit further than Evernote with the downside of not being as simple.
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Not true - you cannot choose to not save to the cloud but everything is synced up locally.
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It's BS that you have to save to SkyDrive and can't keep files on a local drive. Maybe some of us don't want to just hand over all our data (yes, even my OneNote workbook on cars) to the US government. Thanks Microsoft, but you continue to affirm that your products on OS X are garbage. Yes, I understand that you think making Windows applications run better on your OS and leaving OS X behind will benefit you. PC sales are dropping, your tablet sucks, and the one thing I use on a daily basis disappoints.
I need to be able to save my files locally and transfer my OneNote 2013 files from my work PC to my home laptop.
I need to be able to save my files locally and transfer my OneNote 2013 files from my work PC to my home laptop.
Are there any programs that can scan your handwritten paper notebooks and convert them to a typed page?
That and the fact that I pointed out that most of the weight of the download size can be attributed to what is in 'Frameworks' - honestly, don't people actually do something useful and check out what is inside the package before whining about the size of the application? five minute check will show that a good chuck of the Frameworks relate to OLE, COM and other Windows functionality being bundled up with the Application so that the application can run on OS X. Really, do we really want to have a half baked built from the ground up of OneNote that is broken compatibility in every aspect to the Windows version or a Mac OS X version which shares the same code base behind the scenes and has a native front end as to ensure there is seamless compatibility between the two platforms?
Maybe what people are objecting to is when you first load up OneNote is the fact that you're forced to log into your account when when loaded where is the option to save locally? able to remove ones account so that it isn't synchronised? how about the ability to open up local Notebook's? the open option in the menu only shows me my OneDrive.