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Functionality of Tags in OneNote

Anonymous
2017-04-28T03:56:37+00:00

I'm not understanding the functionality of "tags" in OneNote for mac, in the sense that tags are generally used to "tag" something for search or sort/filtering purposes. It seems to me like here, "tags" are just a way to apply styles and add images. 

Am I missing something?

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-11-03T08:18:13+00:00

    In the "original" OneNote for Windows tags have been implemented with the purpose to

    1. Mark any object like paragraphs or images with a special symbol to "emphasize" or categorize it.
    2. In addition a (rather weak) search "report" function has been added (the one you showed in your screenshot) to output a grouped list of tagged objects.

    Somehow the development has stopped there. For example there is no way to add a certain tag to a search phrase (like in Evernote). It remained that way from Onenote 2003 to the current 2016.

    With the release of additional OneNote versions for Mac, iOS, Android and the Win 10 app the developers included the ability to add preconfigured tags (not custom created tags), but left out any search or summary function (so far?).

    So from this point the link Tina Chen posted, is correct, but of course not that helpful as the linked article does not make clear what you can NOT do with tags on OneNote for MacOS.

    As far as I know the whole tagging system is currently under review by the developers, so maybe we can expect some improvements in future versions. 

    In the meantime I would suggest to add a vote here: 

    https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/327165-onenote-for-mac/suggestions/15330843-tags

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-04-28T07:19:22+00:00

    Hi Kingoftheblues85,

    Usually, we use tags in OneNote to apply to any part of notes to help us visibly prioritize or categorize marked notes.

    To better understand tags in OneNote for Mac, you can find detailed information in the article:

    Use tags to categorize and prioritize notes in OneNote 2016 for Mac.

    If you have specific issue, feel free to post in our forum.

    Regards,

    Tina

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-11-03T06:38:14+00:00

    Hi Tina,

    Your answer is really not what people want tags for.  What you describe is not the way most people use tags in OneNote for the pc.  People want to stick nifty little tags throughout their content.  They then can do a search for that tag, which will go through all notebooks and give you a result of that search for that specific tag.  That's how it works in the PC version.  Here is the graphic taken from Microsoft support:

    Yup,  that is the feature that is missing in OSX version. So why did you give this lame answer that dodges the question that was asked?  If you would attempt to explain for what good reason this feature is omitted it might be useful.  But to spew out some brain numb explanation is insulting to readers of this forum.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-04-29T12:27:50+00:00

    Hi Kingoftheblues85,

    Please share any updates at your convenience.

    Regards,

    Tina

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