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Microsoft Releases OneNote as a Free Mac App Store Download
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Crashes
OneNote crashes about 8 second after launch. Too bad as the app does look promising/. sort of a "Curio" with IOS functioning.
Appears to be caused by having the user files on a different hard drive. Apparently MS is aware of the issue.
MacPro. Applications on SSD, user files on internal HD.
OneNote crashes about 8 second after launch. Too bad as the app does look promising/. sort of a "Curio" with IOS functioning.
Appears to be caused by having the user files on a different hard drive. Apparently MS is aware of the issue.
MacPro. Applications on SSD, user files on internal HD.
If you want to add a link to a file located to on your hard drive, then OneNote does support that, even if the option is not visible:
Just type the url to the file, like this:
file:///users/username/documents/file.doc
It's not the same as embedding a file, but at least we can refer to files and link to them.
OneNote's notebook organization and familiar interface (I have been using Windows professionally since 1993), made me switch over from Evernote, despite my initial disappointment about the many missing features.
Just type the url to the file, like this:
file:///users/username/documents/file.doc
It's not the same as embedding a file, but at least we can refer to files and link to them.
OneNote's notebook organization and familiar interface (I have been using Windows professionally since 1993), made me switch over from Evernote, despite my initial disappointment about the many missing features.
Not that I can see. It can't open my ON 2007 notebooks either, only ON 2010.
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OneNote in my opinion is the best app that Microsoft ever came out with. I did miss it when 'I saw the light' and came over to the Apple ecosystem after 20 years in the Window's world.
But...I am not a big fan of having all of my docs in the cloud as Microsoft demands if you want to use OneNote. I tested the application without internet access and it still works, but once you are up on the internet again, it will copy your information to the Microsoft's servers.
At LEAST pages allows you to save your documents on your computer and uses the iCloud as an option. That is a plus for Apple.
I have used the program "Growly Notes" for a few years and is a great alternative to OneNote for the Mac. It has just been released a few months ago in Apple app store. It does not require an account like Evernote or OneNote and works also as a stand alone. You can sync it to dropbox as well etc.
I hope that OneNote would be offered also as a stand alone and you can save to your computer, but it looks like it will not be the case. Also, with OneNote you cannot print UNLESS you save it as a pdf, but you have to email it to yourself.
Having OneNote for Mac FREE is just to attempt to get customers they lost to possibly come back when the next office for mac comes out...
But there will be a "catch" to it all as there is always with Microsoft....the next version of Office for Mac will probably be good...BUT...you will have to be attached to their ecosystem to use it...like the subscription and the controlling Office 365
But...I am not a big fan of having all of my docs in the cloud as Microsoft demands if you want to use OneNote. I tested the application without internet access and it still works, but once you are up on the internet again, it will copy your information to the Microsoft's servers.
At LEAST pages allows you to save your documents on your computer and uses the iCloud as an option. That is a plus for Apple.
I have used the program "Growly Notes" for a few years and is a great alternative to OneNote for the Mac. It has just been released a few months ago in Apple app store. It does not require an account like Evernote or OneNote and works also as a stand alone. You can sync it to dropbox as well etc.
I hope that OneNote would be offered also as a stand alone and you can save to your computer, but it looks like it will not be the case. Also, with OneNote you cannot print UNLESS you save it as a pdf, but you have to email it to yourself.
Having OneNote for Mac FREE is just to attempt to get customers they lost to possibly come back when the next office for mac comes out...
But there will be a "catch" to it all as there is always with Microsoft....the next version of Office for Mac will probably be good...BUT...you will have to be attached to their ecosystem to use it...like the subscription and the controlling Office 365
I hope they add that in later. All my notebooks are already local, making onenote for mac useless for me.
drawbacks
I'm a big fan of onenote on Windows; here are the limitations on the Mac version I've encountered so far (some of which are incredibly frustrating).
(Since I spend most of my time on a Mac, I generally use Eaglefiler to organize web clippings and documents and, till now, Outline+ to read my Onenote notes.)
The clipper uses a different format than the old "send to onenote": Clips look better but you can't mark them up! This turns out to be a huge limitation.
You can't print.
In the UI, the folders arranged vertically on the side of the page have been abandoned, and you have to use the ones arranged horizontally on the top (I much prefer the vertical ones, but c'est la vie.).
You have to use Onedrive; Outline +, the third-party app, uses Skydrive, so you have to choose between the two apps.
No "linked notes," a handy feature.
No embedded documents.
No integration with Office (can't easily email a page, etc.)
Can't export files into Word (not sure of this one, come to think of it...)
No handwriting support.
As for the Evernote comparisons, the sticking point for me on Evernote is the limited organizational possibilities. I like nested folders, they permit only two levels of folders (which act weirdly: the Stacks).
So I hope it gets better, but it's not "OneNote for the Mac," yet ... it's a weak-tea placeholder.
I'm a big fan of onenote on Windows; here are the limitations on the Mac version I've encountered so far (some of which are incredibly frustrating).
(Since I spend most of my time on a Mac, I generally use Eaglefiler to organize web clippings and documents and, till now, Outline+ to read my Onenote notes.)
The clipper uses a different format than the old "send to onenote": Clips look better but you can't mark them up! This turns out to be a huge limitation.
You can't print.
In the UI, the folders arranged vertically on the side of the page have been abandoned, and you have to use the ones arranged horizontally on the top (I much prefer the vertical ones, but c'est la vie.).
You have to use Onedrive; Outline +, the third-party app, uses Skydrive, so you have to choose between the two apps.
No "linked notes," a handy feature.
No embedded documents.
No integration with Office (can't easily email a page, etc.)
Can't export files into Word (not sure of this one, come to think of it...)
No handwriting support.
As for the Evernote comparisons, the sticking point for me on Evernote is the limited organizational possibilities. I like nested folders, they permit only two levels of folders (which act weirdly: the Stacks).
So I hope it gets better, but it's not "OneNote for the Mac," yet ... it's a weak-tea placeholder.
I agree, but still prefer it to Evernote. I hope Microsoft improves it in the near future.
OneNote for Mac is useless to me without..
...OneNote for iPad. I need synching between the two. Right now NoteSuite rocks!!
...OneNote for iPad. I need synching between the two. Right now NoteSuite rocks!!
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You mentioned Outline+ uses SkyDrive while OneNote used OneDrive. SkyDrive and One Drive are the exact same thing. Microsoft was forced to change the name because SkyDrive was a copyright of another company.
Also keep in mind this is a version 1.0 and the Windows version of One Note has been out about a decade or so. I am sure that as the Mac version gets updated more features will be added. Remember Outline+ was read only for almost a full year when it was first released. I remember when One Note first came out on Windows, it had some of those same features and More missing from what it is today.
Saving documents to OneDrive isn't, IMHO, no different than saving to iCloud. People, to coin a phrase from a very popular movie and song, "LET IT GO" if you want to sync between devices and computers you have to save to some sort of cloud. Whether that cloud is called iCloud, SkyDrive, OneDrive, Box, Dropbox, etc it's still a cloud, so just get over it already. Having OneNote save to OneDrive is no different than Apple wanting you to save to iCloud.
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One Note for iPad and One Note for iPhone have both been available for quite some time now. So far the syncing between the Mac, Windows, and both iOS has been flawless from my experience.
I am hoping that when Office 2014 for the Mac and Office on the iPad are released it will also be this flawless.
My bad--a typo. I meant to say that OneNote for Mac works only with Skydrive/OneDrive while Outline + for some bizarre reason doesn't sync with Skydrive/OneDrive ... and encourages use of Dropbox.
My issue here, if there is one, is with Outline+; you can no longer use that app at all if you want to use the Mac OneNote. I'm guessing Outline+ is dead in the water now that there's a Mac OneNote, but it was a nice (and good-looking) shot at helping out Mac users who like OneNote. AND YOU CAN EDIT CLIPPINGS. (But not make clippings!)
Merge the best features of Outline+ and OneNote for Mac and you'd have a better product.
I am sure as One Note matures on the Mac those features from Outline+ will be merged into OneNote. Remember, Outline+ was Read Only when it first came out and in December 2013 finally gained editing features. Under Microsoft's new leadership I believe that they are more interested in gaining back Mac users so I really feel that more attention will be placed on their Mac/iOS apps.
Huh. Last I checked they were still telling you to manually download the notebooks, if you used OneDrive. I have a OneDrive folder on my desktop, holding my OneNote folders, and Outline doesn't see them--they're grayed out.
How do I open a OneDrive-based notebook using Outline?
These are the current instructions on the site involving Skydrive:
http://help.outline.ws/customer/portal/articles/545949-open-notebook-from-skydrive
The plus icon adds a photo or file to an open page (?). When I use cmd-O, or "open notebook," I'm not able to open Skydrive-based notebooks (but can open Dropbox-located ones).
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I'd like to think my feedback made this change happen... Now if Evernote could just fix their issues.