![]() ![]() OneNote offers top-notch tools for creating notes from scratch and organizing them intelligently. It lets you create simple or complex notes from scratch, organize them into searchable, browsable notebooks, and sync them among a variety of platforms, including Windows PCs, Macs, iPads and iPhones, Android devices and the web. OneNote is very much a full-blown application. In this review, I look at the desktop version of OneNote, because the UWP app has far fewer features. However, the company changed course in late 2019, announcing that it will continue to add new features to desktop version of OneNote and that the desktop version will once again be included with Office 365 as of March 2020. ![]() That’s because Microsoft had planned to kill the desktop app and focus instead on the UWP app. As I write this, the desktop version, although available for free as a separate download, is not included with Office 2019 or Office 365. Note that there are two versions of OneNote for Windows: a desktop app and a Windows 10 app, also known as a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app. I spend more time on the Windows version of each, but I’ll note similarities and differences in other versions as well. This isn't a deep-dive review, but rather a personal look at what I like and don't much like about each - and the main points of difference between the two. I'm a longtime user of both applications, so I've taken a look at the latest version of each for Windows, macOS, iPad, iPhone and Android. But they also have some very distinct differences. OneNote and Evernote are available for all the major desktop and mobile OSes, they can each sync your notes to all of your devices and the web, and both promise to be the only note-taking app you need. (Microsoft hasn’t released user numbers for OneNote, but between Office and Windows 10, more than a billion users likely have a version of it installed on their machines.) Evernote launched in 2008 and has enjoyed steadily increasing user numbers since then the company now says it has 225 million users worldwide. Launched in 2003, OneNote was added to Microsoft Office in 2007 and is now bundled with Windows 10 and also offered for free as a standalone product. The app automatically saves the information as a contact entry.There are two leading contenders for the crown: Microsoft’s OneNote and the independent Evernote. The premium tier of Evernote has a similar feature that allows users to take photos of business cards. The feature comes as a free app only available for Windows Phone. The program squares up and cleans up the image before saving it as a note, making words recognizable and searchable through character recognition software. One new function, which it calls Office Lens, allows users to take pictures of documents or whiteboards. ![]() Microsoft didn't completely open up its latest software developments to other platforms, however. "We want to actually remove all barriers for people to adopt this," Rasmussen said. While the changes were in place before new CEO Satya Nadella took over in February, he fully supported the moves, said David Rasmussen, group program manager for OneNote. The moves are part of a push by Microsoft to open up the company to working with other software platforms beyond Windows and to emphasize its cloud offerings. Business users who pay to subscribe will have access to change history and tools that protect sensitive information. People who purchase a full Office 365 Home Premium subscription-which includes the Outlook email program, Excel spreadsheet software and PowerPoint presentation tool-will be able to use OneNote functions that are better integrated with other Office programs and get 20 GB of cloud storage. Evernote has its own clipper and an individualized email address for sending notes to oneself. Some new features play catch-up to what Evernote offered already, including a OneNote Clipper button for Web browsers that saves Web pages as notes, and a universal email address that gives users a single destination to email documents to themselves for saving as notes. Evernote's premium users, who pay $45 a year, can upload 1 GB of data per month. Free Evernote users are limited to uploading 60 megabytes of data per month. New Microsoft users also get 7 gigabytes of free online storage through its OneDrive cloud storage service. The free version of OneNote keeps some functions that give it an edge over the free tier of Evernote, including offline access to notes and the ability for multiple people to work on the same note simultaneously. The moves offer more consumers a taste of its Office 365 suite of software, which normally costs $99 a year. ![]()
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