OneNote | App Review

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OneNote is a free note-taking app which is available for many platforms. Having apps for multiple platforms and allowing access to notes from the website means you can view and edit your notes anywhere you can get an internet connection. Logging in with your Microsoft account means your notes will be synced with OneDrive, meaning all of your notes will be available on all of your devices (as long as you have and internet connection).

You can create multiple notebooks and within each notebook you can have several section each with numerous pages. This set-up replicates the way notes can be organised in real life. Even if you use this system to keep your notes well-organised, you may still need to use the search function sometimes! You have the choice of searching for a page that contains a specific term or you can search for a term on the page you are currently editing.

You can add text to the page and add a tag to it, for example ‘website to visit’ or add to-do tick boxes.

Alternatives to text include an audio note, video note or you could draw or handwrite on a page using your device’s touchscreen or by using your computer’s mouse. You can also change the background of the page. Having lines on a page can make it easier to write neatly.

The OneNote web clipper allows you to ‘clip’ webpages to your notebooks. Other ways to add notes are sending an e-mail to me@onenote.com or by using the ‘Send to OneNote’ tool.

OneNote can extract text from an image or just make the text in the image searchable.

OneNote offers some helpful options for taking notes. In the Windows version, you can set the window to be ‘always on top’ so that you can take notes from another window. Similarly, dock view puts OneNote on the side of your screen so you can take notes while, for example, reading a document in another window.

Contact

Website: www.onenote.com

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