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OneNote 2010 – What’s New For You

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Yesterday was a very exciting day for everyone on the OneNote team. We have been designing, developing and testing the OneNote 2010 release for quite some time now. We’ve been using it ourselves every day for well over a year. It has already dramatically changed the way we and many other teams and individuals at Microsoft work. And with the availability of the Office 2010 Technical Preview today to selected participants, we’re excited to finally be able to share more details with you.

In this post I’ll give a 30,000 foot overview of the major investments for OneNote 2010, and then in subsequent posts we’ll go into more detail on the feature areas with screenshots and more.

 

OneNote 2010 Investments Overview

1. Universal Access

We repeatedly hear that access to your notes and the ability to take them anywhere is very important, whether you’re at work, home or on the go. OneNote 2007 already provides offline availability and seamless sync, and a basic OneNote application for Windows Mobile. But we knew that was just the beginning. With OneNote 2010 we’ve added:

  • Sync to Cloud (Windows Live) : Your notebooks sync and are available anywhere from any machine. Of course this is in addition to all the existing ways you can sync notebooks (file shares, SharePoint, USB drives etc.)
  • OneNote Web App: You can access and edit your entire notebook from a browser. Even on a machine that doesn’t have OneNote installed.
  • OneNote Mobile: A more complete OneNote version for Windows Mobile phones. Syncs whole notebooks. Syncs directly to the cloud. No need to tether your device. Richer editing support.

Note: The above are not yet available in the Tech Preview unfortunately. We’re still finishing some integration work for sync to Windows Live.

2. Sharing and Collaboration

With OneNote 2007 we pioneered simultaneous multi-user editing of notebooks. OneNote 2007 auto-magically merges the edits, even simultaneous edits on the same page. This is valuable for single users (you can edit on desktop and laptop and not have one machine lock the file), but it’s even more valuable for  teams sharing a notebook for plans, ideas, meetings and so on. Or perhaps a family notebook shared with your significant other. We’ve heard lots of positive feedback about this, and  it has completely transformed the way many teams work and collaborate. We’ve also heard about many families that use it for sharing home renovation plans, gardening info, recipes, wedding planning and so on.

In OneNote 2010 we’ve added a number of features to make the experience of sharing with others more productive and intuitive. These include:

  • What’s new (aka Unread) highlighting: New content that someone else added or changed since you last looked at a page is highlighted so you can see what’s new on that page. Also, the notebook name, section tabs and page tabs are shown in bold so you can quickly navigate to pages with new content.
  • Author indicator: Content written by anyone other than you has a small color coded bar to the right with their initials. At a glance you can tell who wrote something.
  • Versioning: Quickly show past versions of any given page, who wrote it and when, with changes relative to previous versions highlighted.
  • Fast sync on same page: When multiple people are working on the same page we speed up the sync of that page so you can see other peoples edits in near real time.
  • We also added capabilities to be able to quickly search for recently added content (last day, week, month etc.) or get an overview of what given people changed on what days.
  • Merge two sections: This feature is more of a detail but it fits here. Sometimes people share notebooks using Live Mesh or Dropbox or other file sharing solutions. And you can end up with two forked copies of a section if you happened to make changes on two machines at once (you can read earlier posts for context, but OneNote cannot auto-magically merge simultaneous edits when working on these systems that copy files around underneath OneNote). So we’ve added the ability to manually merge any two sections if you ever get into this situation. Just tell OneNote which two sections you want merged and OneNote will take care of it.

3. Better ways to Organize and Find your Notes

Capturing, organizing and finding your information has always been at the heart of what OneNote does. We’ve made several enhancements in this core area. Some of these will be more understandable once we have detailed blog posts with screenshots.

  • Section and page tab improvements: making notebook navigation work better with a larger number of sections and pages, easier to create new sections, better page tab hierarchy visualization, collapse sub page groups, just drag left and right to create sub pages and organize your pages, insert new pages directly anywhere in your page tabs.
  • Fast “word wheel” search for navigation: the goal of this is to make search a super fast way to get to your regularly used notes. Historically search has been more of a “last resort” feature when you couldn’t find something. We’ve completely revamped this experience so it is now designed to make it the fastest way to get to any page including pages you visit regularly like your To Do list.
  • Wiki linking: you can easily create a link to an existing page or to a new page for a topic. You can do this by just typing the Wiki link syntax (e.g. just type [[The Page Title I Want]] ), or use our new page search experience from within the link dialog. This enables you to easily create Wiki like notebooks with lots of cross links across pages.
  • Quick filing: there are many ways to send content to OneNote (Print to OneNote, send mails from Outlook, send pages from Internet Explorer and so on). Our new Quick Filing experience pops up to let you pick where in your notebook you want to send it. It remembers the last places you sent things. You can search in Quick Filing to find a specific section or page if you want it somewhere else.

4. Research and taking notes linked to documents, web pages

OneNote is often used as a companion while researching topics and collecting information (e.g. a market analysis study, a class paper, a home renovation, a car purchase and so on). This often involves looking at web pages or documents and taking notes. You could also be reviewing a document or class lecture slides and taking notes as you’re looking through them. We’ve enhanced a number of things to make this experience better.

  • Docked OneNote: you can dock OneNote to the side of your screen. It docks alongside other windows (e.g. browser, Word, PowerPoint). OneNote minimizes UI and just shows the notes page alongside your document/browser.
  • Linked Note Taking: while in this mode, OneNote automatically links the notes you take to what you’re looking at – the web page URL, the selection point in Word, the current slide in PowerPoint. Later in OneNote you can hover on that link and you’ll see a thumbnail preview of the original document, you can click on it and it will open and take you back to what you were looking at when you wrote the note.
  • Auto text wrapping: this goes well with Docked OneNote but is useful in other cases too. OneNote now wraps text outlines to fit the windows size if there is only one outline on the page. This makes it easy to see all your notes even when OneNote is docked to a relatively narrow window on the side.
  • IRM protected printouts: this is mainly for enterprise and training scenarios. The idea is that companies can distribute things like product manuals or class notes in OneNote that are protected intellectual property. The recipient can view these in OneNote and take their own personal notes on top of these materials and beside them. If for some reason the materials were viewed by an unauthorized person they would not see any of the protected material.
  • 64 bit print driver: Yes, OneNote 2010 has a new native print driver that fully supports 64 bit. It’s based on the XPS technology from Windows. It also has other virtues like better rendering quality when scaled.

5. Editing improvements

There are a number of basic editing improvements in OneNote. Below are some more prominent ones.

  • Basic styles: OneNote 2010 adds very basic styles like Heading 1,2,3. This does not have the power of Words styling features. OneNote is not designed for that level of document formatting. But it does give you a way to quickly have your meeting notes have a little structure.
  • Bullets improvements: this is a simple one but oft requested. First level bullets now indent from previous text.
  • Equations: OneNote 2010 now supports the ability to add math equations. Great for students or people who need to input math into their notebooks. OneNote will also support the ability to recognize hand written math equations and convert them when running on Windows 7.
  • Mini-Translation tooltips: OneNote can now show you a tooltip with a translation into your native language when your mouse hovers over a foreign language word. Great for language students, or if you’re working in a bi-lingual situation and need help understanding a word in a shared notebook or that you clipped from the web. This is thanks to integration of work from our GXP team mentioned in their blog.

6. Touch support

With the rapidly increasing availability of touch enabled PCs and the enhanced touch experience in Windows 7, this was a natural thing for OneNote to support.

  • Finger panning and auto-switch: you can use your finger to scroll and pan around any page in OneNote. OneNote auto switches between pen, pan, and selection depending on your input device. So for example you can pan around a drawing with your left finger and draw with a tablet pen in your right hand. This makes for a very natural two handed interaction model.
  • Pinch zoom: we enabled pinch zooming within OneNote centered on the fingers.
  • Navigation controls improved for touch: we’ve made some small optimizations to make the UI easier to use with touch.

7. Fluent UI

OneNote now adopts the Fluent UI along with the other Office applications.

  • Ribbon: OneNote now has the Ribbon. We’ve designed this to optimize for the key OneNote scenarios and make them easier to use. This is also what enables us to more easily add features like math equation editing (the common controls for that use the Ribbon), and potential future features.
  • Office Backstage: This is new for Office 2010. OneNote will be taking advantage of it to make tasks like creating new notebooks, and new shared notebooks on the web easier (we’re still doing work on this).

 

We’ll write more in future posts to explain each of these areas in more detail. We hope you enjoy OneNote 2010!

David Rasmussen

Group Program Manager, OneNote

Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 15, 2009
    This is an impressive list of improvements! I have long wanted many of the features described and OneNote 2010 will definitely improve my productivity and make my life easier. I have some questions, though. Which web browsers will be supported for docking? If my favorite browser is not supported, can third parties add support? One feature I really miss and don't see mentioned, is better tag search. Specifically, am I going to be able to search for notes by specifying multiple tags I'd like to search on? Or even find something that has one tag, but not another? Another big issue for me is that tag customizations seem to be saved on a per-machine basis in OneNote 2007 instead of per-notebook. I use my own tags instead of the ones provided by default  and they're not saved with my notebooks. This means that I have to manually recreate my tags on every machine I want to edit my notes on. And every time I change my tags, I have to remember to make the change on every machine. This also prevents me from tagging my notes on somebody else's machine  because my tags are missing. Will OneNote 2010 allow me to define my tags once and use them on every machine I open my notes on? I'd also like the web-based version of OneNote pick up my custom tags and allow me to use them. Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    July 15, 2009
    +1 on being able to sync my custom tags to the Web app - and please make them part of the customisations you export with the ribbon; I am fed up of recreating my tags and putting them at the top of the list on every machine I use. and on the mobile side, many thanks or fixing the tether problem - please make it so the mobile notebook syncs onto all my OneNote machines! And please have good tools for allowing me to pick what gets synced; as a long-time OneNote user I have many years of notes and I'd like options like 'anything I've edited in the last month' as well as 'sections I pick to always sync'. And please - please - please - let me change the name of a note on the mobile without breaking the sync link! And I'm going to repeat my plea on getting a better version of the proofing tools with context menu AutoCorrect flyout into OneNote; the spelling checker in OneNote is more primitive than Word 2003!

  • Anonymous
    July 15, 2009
    The improvements are fantastic, but the tablet interface problems introduced with 2010 are also major- so much that I'll be forced to stick with 2007 until they are fixed.  

  1. Pen size can not even be changed to the default .25 size of earlier Onenote versions.  This is horrible- it's like it wasn't even tested with tablet users.
  2. The ribbon interface is great in the rest of office, but it makes doing common Onenote tasks slow and cumbersome.   For example- in Onenote 2007 with the pen toolbar out, to change to a different pen color is a 3 step operation- 1: recognize pen icon, 2: move pen to icon, 3: click pen.   In 2010 it's a 6 step process-   1: recognize "Draw" tab, 2: move pen to "Draw", 3: click "Draw", 4: recognize pen icon, 5: move to pen icon, 6: click pen.   I do process and ergonomics consulting, and this is just a horrible step backwards.   The rest of the interface changes are fantastic- love the collapsing subpages!

  • Anonymous
    July 15, 2009
    Very glad to see enhanced linking options and search. I have been using PersonalBrain as a way to link "thoughts" or concepts, and have had difficulty trying to link that into OneNote. I also liked the instant search capability it had to bring up any thought immediately. I'm hoping 2010 will be able to replicate these features well.

  • Anonymous
    July 15, 2009
    iPhone app please! MS could release a killer Office suite for the iPhone. Evernote gets it. Across all platforms and devices, not just MS ones.

  • Anonymous
    July 15, 2009
    Yes, please iphone app for sure. Is it true that Tech Ed attendees will receive the Technical Preview auto-magically?

  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2009
    Love many of the additions but as a Tablet PC fanatic I want more! I've commented before and it just seems mind-boggling to me that it has not been done yet but why hasn't "Mind Mapping" been built into OneNote?  I end up using two applications to take notes for meetings (Mind Mapper and OneNote) when the two are such natural compliments to one another.  Seriously take a look at any of the Mind Mapping programs out there and think about adding basic MindMapping to OneNote -- plz!

  • Anonymous
    July 17, 2009
    Someone else is working on an iphone app you know http://www.gottabemobile.com/2009/06/29/onenote-for-iphone-in-development/

  • Anonymous
    July 17, 2009
    Disappointed to hear once again the tags functionality isn't being improved. Lack of syncing tags , lack of searching multiple tags  and too limited a number of master tags to be a true knowledge base functionality Hacking workarounds just aren't productive and won't be utilitised by 99% of users.

  • Anonymous
    July 18, 2009
    David, 1- I need your opinion about integration between  onenote and personalbrain (I have 40.000 pieces of information linked (parent, children, sibling) in personalbrain. I love the plus features in onenote but I need some new features. 2- It will be in Onenote visual representation about link between notes (parent, children, sibling)? 3- can onenote notebook handle 100GB of attachments (my personal documents)? What is the notebook attachments size limit thank

  • Anonymous
    July 19, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2009
    Any investments in the space of extensibility/development/integration?  Major changes to the API?  Managed code add-in support?

  • Anonymous
    July 22, 2009
    Thanks for the info David. A quick question: Will OneNote 2010 run under Windows XP? TIA Jack

  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2009
    Yes, iPhone support is essential for me, too. If you have a corp. policiy not to support other great platforms, that would hurt yourself in the long run, but that's your choice. Go for iPhone support.

  • Anonymous
    August 04, 2009
    I just want to say that I have been fortunate enough to have been invited to participate in the Office 2010 Tech Preview.  Additionally, OneNote has been my favorite and most useful application.  So far, I am totally impressed with the improvements in ON 2010.  It is great.  I'm really excited about the upcoming feature of syncing to Windows Live.  Congrats on the great project!

  • Anonymous
    August 04, 2009
    I can't imagine managing my personal and professional life without OneNote.  Some great enhancements coming along, like collapsing subpages, and being able to insert new pages anywhere instead of creating a new one only at the bottom.  I would like to see an iPhone app as well.  And, I'd like to see mindmapping integrated so I wouldn't have to use both OneNote and MindManager.  While I can use hyperlinks to get around the hierarchical structure of OneNote, mindmapping would provide visualization that is very helpful as well.

  • Anonymous
    August 16, 2009
    OneNote is my basic work instrument for some years. I'm very happy with the improvements in OneNote 2010, first of all the possibility to expand and collapse sub page groups. Docked OneNote, and the Quick Access Tool Bar are very useful as well. The automatic switching between ink and text mode is not yet perfect at least on my MotionComputing LE 1700 with Windows 7 RC. It always switches back to ink made without any reason. I agree and I would like to enforce some of the observations made before:  -The issue with the pen toolbar - the old solution (optional static pen toolbar of the side of the screen) was better. The possibility to put the first row of the favorite pens in the Quick Access Tool Bar would solve the problem.  -Mind mapping - even a very primitive one, would be a very nice extention to existing possibilities of OneNote.  - For tablet users it would helpful to have the possibility to dock optionally the Quick Access Tool Bar at the bottom of the page.  -When publishing a page to blog, OneNote opens Word. I would ejoy to have an option for direct publishing or publishing using Live Writer. These are minor observations, I'm very pleased with OneNote 2010 and I would find it difficult to turn back to an older version. Congratulations.

  • Anonymous
    August 19, 2009
    David, Question.  One of the biggest PITA issues for me was the way it handled handwriting when tying to "rewrite" hastily taken in class notes at a later date. I would insert white space and then retype some portions, but the problem was that the insert operation would shift some portions of the handwriting and not others, often ruining charts and superimposing some text over a portion of another and making both illegible.  Further, it was praticalyl un-undoable once it got messed up, and sometimes it was difficult to notice that it had, as it could be occuring way down the page. Have there been any improvements in OneNote 10 on this front? Thanks in advance, Ilya

  • Anonymous
    August 20, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    August 20, 2009
    I think someone must think about this already but I can't find the way to do it even in OneNote 2010 Technical Preview:  Is there a way to "lock" a page/section/notebook?  As a student, more often that not I have to go back and look at my note from previous term, but I don't want to accidentally mess it up. On the tablet topic, I don't think it's that bad with ribbon.  If you use it kind of like the InkSeine interface, it's quite nice.  But it needs more tab and stoke though, so I agree that this area need a lot of work.  Speaking of InkSeine, I think that experimental project is going on quite awhile now.  Do you still don't think its UI is mature enough for OneNote? Finally, I am very excited about new features, especially Windows Live sync and Mobile.  Keep up the good work!

  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2009
    Looks like automatic equations are already working in 2007 (12.0.6316.5000). I discovered this by accident while writing a few equations this morning. Pretty cool. One small adjustment would be nice: it recognizes exponents if written in the format of 2^3=. But if I format the 3 as a superscript, OneNote treats the number as 23, w/o the multiplication. It would be great if it recognized the superscript.

  • Anonymous
    November 21, 2009
    David, +1 for universal access.  Web Based or Palm Pre specific (sorry, the current crop of WM phones is sorely outclassed by iPhone and Pre.  And possibly Droid.  Maybe WM 7 will correct it, but 6.5 is a patch-job).

  • Anonymous
    November 30, 2009
    An iPhone application that syncs with Live would be outstanding. I use OneNote regularly at work, but have switched to an iPhone after years of going back and forth between Windows Mobile and a Blackberry. The other app mentioned here requires a subscription and syncs to a Russian Federation server. Not too secure for a US business. Please give us an iPhone app!

  • Anonymous
    December 07, 2009
    CLARIFICATION REQUESTED When discussing the Universal Access features, the footnote states:  "Note: The above are not yet available in the Tech Preview unfortunately. We’re still finishing some integration work for sync to Windows Live" I cannot save/share my OneNote 2010 notebooks to the web.  When I try, it tells me SkyDrive is not available even though I can get to SkyDrive via ie.  I'm left with a very powerful; note taking applcation that I can only use on one computer.  Is this just a beta issue?  If so, is there a tiem frame to integrate these online features into OneNote 2010? Thanks in advance.

  • Anonymous
    December 17, 2009
    Great work on the new OneNote 2010 features. However, one of the things that I was hoping would be included was better basic support for retaining the proper white space between paragraphs when pasting clippings from the web. I can paste web clippings into a blank Word document just fine - the resulting document retains the proper spacing between paragraphs. But when I copy and paste into a OneNote page, the spacing between paragraphs gets lost. I have to manually insert carriage returns between paragraphs to be able to read the article properly. Try copying and pasting a typical article from a news site like embedded.com and you'll see what I mean. e.g. http://www.embedded.com/columns/breakpoint/221901489?printable=true

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2010
    One thisng I would like is incredibly simple. I would like to be able to choose a background color for a single text field. This would make pages so much easier to read where they have many different notes.

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    March 10, 2010
    my big question is; will OneNote 2010 use OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) and will MathType work, like with microsoft powerpoint.  Also im using the beta version of office 2010 and i've got MathType 6.6 installed, but i can't get the mathtype add-in to install so that i have a MathType tab in the ribbon.  Is there a new word 2010 add-in that i haven't for some reason, or is this a glitch? Thanks so much, and keep up the great work

  • Anonymous
    March 29, 2010
    We just upgraded to OneNote 2007 from 2003. We are a trial law firm and have had great success using 2003 as our trial notebook.  With 2007, however, we are running into a problem, and I am convinced it is because we are missing something. In 2003, we would typically drag and drop a document onto a OneNote page. This would put the document in the OneNote directory and insert a "<file:.....>" link on that page. We could, for example, put all of our trial exhibits in numerical order. Each exhibit number would be followed by a description and then the link. For example: Ex. 1 Police report <file:police report.pdf> Ex. 2 Witness statement <file:witness statement.doc> And so forth. The process was easy because a paralegal could simply drag and drop the document onto the appropriate OneNote page and the link would be created in this fashion. With 2007, it does not create the link but instead puts a big icon for the document. This icon consumes a lot of desktop real estate and does not lend itself to the process described above.  The only "work around" we have been able to find is to manually copy the document into the OneNote directory and then manually type the "<file. . .. .>" link onto the proper OneNote page. With hundreds - sometimes thousands - of documents, this is impractical. What am I missing? Surely there is a way to drag-and-drop a file and have the "<file:. . . >" link appear rather than the large icon. Thanks for any help you can give.

  • Anonymous
    May 26, 2010
    David, What plans do you have to allowing to write through the API to a OneNote that is stored in the cloud ?

  • Anonymous
    June 01, 2010
    Hello David! May I ask you something about OneNote that I was hoping you might give me an answer to (or at least point me in the right direction)? I have been searching for a program like this for long now, because I have very specific requirements. I am now starting the incredibly big work of putting all my handwritten recipes and ideas into digital form. I think OneNote would be absolutety perfect for my needs (before this I was thinking an Access database with a "notebook" template or a completely stand-alone program tied to a database) and I feel pretty convinced that OneNote would be the best. The ONLY thing that worries me is - how can I secure my information for the future. Probably the program OneNote won't be around for a 100 years. How can I export and then import the database of OneNote into another database in the future when MS stops developing OneNote? What database is OneNote built on? Possibilities to export the database "raw" into any other database form? Is there anything I should do already before starting this long work of writing everything, so as to make things easier for future data migration? Input the data according to a certain method or something? (I wouldn't want to end up with thousands of recipes on one long .pdf document....) Thanks for any help! Regards, John ellohn(at)yahoo.com

  • Anonymous
    June 11, 2010
    One big thing with me is being able to access the Win 7 Contacts list for Onenote envelopes and labels. Rich Hill

  • Anonymous
    June 30, 2010
    is there a way to freeze the heading of a page so that as you scroll you can access the citation in the heading

  • Anonymous
    July 02, 2010
    Can I please ask for help? I installed office 2010 home and student on my windows 7 (64-bit) computer, but I can't seem to find a "Send to OneNote" option when I try to print things. Did I forget to activate something during my installation? Thank you for your help!

  • Anonymous
    August 04, 2010
    iPhone and iPad support would be appreciated

  • Anonymous
    August 24, 2010
    Hay all.. just curious, I use onenote 2010 for university and i was wondering if there was a way to make print out inserts instantly background images, I have a tablet pc and like to write on them, and print them out at a later date. Also curious if there is away to select area to be print.. as in print current view. Microsoft would do good either building addons to do so or implementing these features!

  • Anonymous
    September 05, 2010
    Onenote is a wonderful product, only 3 things missing: iphone support, iphone support, iphone support. cheers, Bo

  • Anonymous
    September 23, 2010
    Please add iPhone app Support!! :)

  • Anonymous
    December 14, 2010
    teachermiller7@gmail.com PLEASE PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE can you have OneNote catch up wtih the rest of the office suite?  In 2007 it was the only one that didn't get a ribbon.  In 2010 it's the only one that I use that won't work with MathType and it's the one I use most often.  PLEASE fix this ... puppy-dog eyes Also, OneNote 2010 crashes every time I drag and drop certain characters from MathType into OneNote where 2007 did not.  Please can we fix this? Please talk to me via email if you need more info or have more info for me.

  • Anonymous
    January 14, 2011
    Please add iphone support sometime this century please!!  I purchased Office specifically so that I could share onenote on the cloud in a cleverer way than mobilenoter.  But hey presto onenote web app will not open on the iphone.  Seriously dissappointed!

  • Anonymous
    January 17, 2011
    با سلام من از ایران این پیام رو می فرستم. می خواستم بپرسم چطوری می تونم  مجموعه ای از آموزشهای به روز شما در مورد  نرم افزار oneneto اطلاعات دقیقی بدست بیاورم باتشکر

Hi I send my message to Iran. I wanted to ask how can I update a set of tutorials on software you oneneto get a precise information Batshkr

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2011
    And finally its here the most wanted app on iphone... Thanks a lot!! where is search button guys ? don't expect me to go over last 5 years notes ? where is voice note and Pen ? /KP

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2011
    And finally its here the most wanted app on iphone... Thanks a lot!! where is search button guys ? don't expect me to go over last 5 years notes ? where is voice note and Pen ? /KP

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2011
    Will there be a mindmapping tool soon, I know you can use the drawing tools, but it would be nice to have not only drawing tools, but mindmapping tools too.

  • Anonymous
    July 26, 2011
    This all looks great but until I can see snippets (as in Evernote) and I can have an android phone app. I won't be switching back from Evernote.

  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2011
    can u get this 'live sharing session' feature back?? if you guys think the share notebook feature is better, u can keep it too. what most users want is just simple real-time live share without any extra server.

  • Anonymous
    October 04, 2011
    Hi David Your blog is fantastic and contains a good deal about OneNote. I do have a question regarding OneNote's text editor options that I'm sure you have the answer to. I work with C# and T-SQL and when I paste into MS Word, it retains the formatting as it was in Visual Studio (same font, colors and so on). How do I get OneNote's editor to match these formats as well? I usually have to copy it from Visual Studio, paste into Word, copy it from Word, and then paste it back into OneNote to retain the original formatting. Any advice would be much appreciated! Please note that I've sent you an email as well, but I've added a comment here for anyone else who might be interested in this question. Thanks, John

  • Anonymous
    November 02, 2011
    I am not familiar with Onenote except that it requires me to change my default printer every time I try to print a doc. I can't find any help to disable it.

  • Anonymous
    December 06, 2011
    MS Onenote Mobile as part of Office Mobile as part of the new MS Myphone software: Reportedly the Mobile version of Onenote has restricted functions compared to Onenote Office on the big PC. Can I make handwriting notices or drawings with a pencil on the display with MS Onenote M o b i l e? ab4720@googlemail.com