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Microsoft Releases OneNote as a Free Mac App Store Download
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And this is the single biggest reason I've stopped using Microsoft products on the iPad and now OneNote for OS X. As a consumer I've made my own choices in relation to cloud storage providers. I don't want fragmented storage across OneDrive and other vendors for which I already subscribe. I don't want to store specific content in the cloud - thanks NSA/GCHQ.
I don't appreciate Microsoft, or any vendor making these decisions for me. While you do, I'll continue to decide not to use your products.
Once again, Microsoft, with so much promise misses the target - massively.
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Yeah, I noticed a few of those missing myself yesterday. One thing I wish they would copy from Evernote is the ability to email something to OneNote. I know on a PC with Windows and Outlook they have the buttons integrated, but this would be a welcome change. Maybe with office for Mac 2014
Some missing features
I am an IT project manager specialising in large government programs for my local state government here in Australia. Currently I am engaged in the local Education department so as child safety is our highest priority the network is very locked down and access to OneDrive is restricted. I don't have a problems with that for most things but it makes syncing to OneDrive a problem. :-(
Corporate SOE is Win7/Office 2010/2013 and I am an active user of OneNote as I manage large teams with simply hundreds of products under development during large stages. My practice is to create a page for each product which contains the product description and notes I make as the project progresses. I find it helpful to make status updates and ToDo notes on each product's page and then to use the OneNote feature to find all tags then to create a summary page from that which effectively gives me a ToDo Summary list which travels with me. This feature seems to be missing in the Mac version.
Looks like until this is implemented I won't be using OneNote on my Mac as this is a part of my daily work routine and as OneDrive is out then I will just keep on building my summary at the end of the day, then dropping my OneNote directory to a USB stick and using Outline on my Mac to review when on the road.
Shame, otherwise it was looking sweet, but no local file access and missing search for Tag functionality is a killer on this platform.
I am an IT project manager specialising in large government programs for my local state government here in Australia. Currently I am engaged in the local Education department so as child safety is our highest priority the network is very locked down and access to OneDrive is restricted. I don't have a problems with that for most things but it makes syncing to OneDrive a problem. :-(
Corporate SOE is Win7/Office 2010/2013 and I am an active user of OneNote as I manage large teams with simply hundreds of products under development during large stages. My practice is to create a page for each product which contains the product description and notes I make as the project progresses. I find it helpful to make status updates and ToDo notes on each product's page and then to use the OneNote feature to find all tags then to create a summary page from that which effectively gives me a ToDo Summary list which travels with me. This feature seems to be missing in the Mac version.
Looks like until this is implemented I won't be using OneNote on my Mac as this is a part of my daily work routine and as OneDrive is out then I will just keep on building my summary at the end of the day, then dropping my OneNote directory to a USB stick and using Outline on my Mac to review when on the road.
Shame, otherwise it was looking sweet, but no local file access and missing search for Tag functionality is a killer on this platform.
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I'm new to the whole EN/ON scene, I have been using Google Keep prior to 'testing' Evernote for the past few weeks.
I like EN, especially the clipping tool.
The main reason I will probably move away from EN is the lack of storage options which ON and Keep have.
I like EN, especially the clipping tool.
The main reason I will probably move away from EN is the lack of storage options which ON and Keep have.
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Hardly. Evernote 1 launched in 2005, OneNote launched in 2003. The current cloud-based version of Evernote dates from 2008, but EN has been around a lot longer than your comment would imply.
OneNote for Mac reminds me of the recent changes to Apple Pages/Numbers/Keynote:
1) Dumbed down to provide compatibility with the "cloud" at the expense of existing users ("existing" being those with Windows OneNote notebooks).
2) Made "free" with probable goal to be selling cloud space.
As I mentioned much earlier in this thread I quickly uninstalled when I discovered that it had no way to open notebooks copied from my Windows machine. In fact it has no way to open any notebook except those in Microsoft's cloud. Since then after reading about the inability to drop PDFs in (an absolute essential for me) or even Word documents makes me seriously wonder what is the point of this product? Like my point (1) it appears only useful for those wanting compatibility with the de-featured mobile versions.
1) Dumbed down to provide compatibility with the "cloud" at the expense of existing users ("existing" being those with Windows OneNote notebooks).
2) Made "free" with probable goal to be selling cloud space.
As I mentioned much earlier in this thread I quickly uninstalled when I discovered that it had no way to open notebooks copied from my Windows machine. In fact it has no way to open any notebook except those in Microsoft's cloud. Since then after reading about the inability to drop PDFs in (an absolute essential for me) or even Word documents makes me seriously wonder what is the point of this product? Like my point (1) it appears only useful for those wanting compatibility with the de-featured mobile versions.
It's not quite as flexible as in Evernote yet (you cannot send to specific notebooks/sections), but you already can email stuff to Onenote:
http://blogs.office.com/2014/03/17/email-your-notes-into-onenote-with-meonenote-com/
It is triple the size on your disk compared to Evernote and has half the functionality!
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Pfft! Don't be ridiculous, of course you can't! That might run the risk of making this software useful!
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None of that has anything to do with compatibility and everything to do with minimising the time and cost to Microsoft of making this port.
You don't need 200MB of extra junk to write in a compatible file format.
Really? How? They have probably just alienated half their potential users because of all the features missing from this half-baked release.
I've never understood Microsoft apologists - it's like boasting about how much sex you're not getting.
That's right, make it personal. If you are mistaking me for a Microsoft apologist you're pretty clueless.
It's clear from the comments in this thread that there aren't many Mac users currently using OneNote. For them, EverNote is the deal. Microsoft has to start SOMEWHERE and with the upcoming release of Office for iOS, Microsoft is starting to make a more concerted move into the OSX/iOS space. They are absolutely way-late in doing this it is good that they are starting.
Microsoft-haters aren't going to give any Microsoft offering on OSX/iOS a fair shake anyways so there's nothing to gain in waiting more months to get things improved. Get something out there, some will use it. Improve it over time.
I have never been very happy with Evernote and have been wanting OneNote on my mac for some time now. I agree it could still use some improvements, but I already like it better than Evernote.
Just wanted to post and say how happy I am you guys finally released a One Note app for the Mac...I have been waiting on one for years
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LOL...not me...I bought it and hate it! Downloaded OneNote as soon as I could.
I use the OneNote Online version(onedrive.com). It's clearly superior to something like Google Keep. Keep is basically only good for shopping lists.
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If you look at the current rankings in the Mac App Store, OneNote is now #1. OneDrive #8.
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If you look at the current rankings in the Mac App Store, OneNote is now #1. OneDrive #8.
A good article on the difference in ON and EN. It's pretty much why I like ON much better, and suffered with EN because no Mac app was available. Now with this release and the iOS apps, I'm in the process of switching.
http://www.macworld.com/article/210...crosoft-onenote-for-mac-replace-evernote.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/210...crosoft-onenote-for-mac-replace-evernote.html
So it looks like users of OneNote on iOS are happy campers with OneNote for OS X. Unfortunately I'm a user of OneNote for Windows and find it incompatible with OneNote for OS X (dozens, maybe hundreds of attached PDFs which don't work and inability to open notebooks except in the cloud).
This is reminding me so much of the new iLife apps which are compatible with iOS (iOS users rejoiced) yet incompatible with existing computer documents. Microsoft announced a "Mobile first" philosophy which is what Apple is doing as well, to the detriment of office users.
This is reminding me so much of the new iLife apps which are compatible with iOS (iOS users rejoiced) yet incompatible with existing computer documents. Microsoft announced a "Mobile first" philosophy which is what Apple is doing as well, to the detriment of office users.
I saw that too. Hopefully this is a temporary limitation that will be addressed in updates. If not, then the current interest in OneNote will be short-lived.
sucker
Downloaded it then deleted it.
Don't really have an alternative, waited for 5+ years. Outline is a poor substitute with limited controls (can't even change the font face), buggy, and laughable development team.
Was hella excited to read OneNote released - then realized I HAD to sign up for MS account, and that's it's cloud - all my notebooks will live with MS and NSA.
No thanks MS.
Downloaded it then deleted it.
Don't really have an alternative, waited for 5+ years. Outline is a poor substitute with limited controls (can't even change the font face), buggy, and laughable development team.
Was hella excited to read OneNote released - then realized I HAD to sign up for MS account, and that's it's cloud - all my notebooks will live with MS and NSA.
No thanks MS.