OneNote 2010 and Onenote Web App

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 15, 2011 at 07:56 PM

Has anyone else been using OneNote 2010? I just installed it. So far I have mostly positive impressions. The issue with outline is either fixed or I didn’t quite get it, because it feels to me that outlining in ON2010 is improved from 2007—not dramatically, but incrementally so.

I like the new wiki link feature—encase a word or phrase in [[double brackets]] and OneNote finds a match for that page across your open notebooks, and if it doesn’t find one, creates one in the current notebook/section.

The search function is vastly improved. I found the way search results were displayed in 2007 to be one of the weakest aspects of OneNote, and one reason I didn’t use it as often as I would have liked. In 2010, search results are display in an easier to access list, which I find much quicker.

Tables work better in 2010—mainly, when I paste a tab-separated list, it becomes a table, unlike 2007, in which that feature never worked fine for me. This makes it a lot easier to bring text from a spreadsheet into ON.

I am still using Windows XP, so I am not used to—nor do I yet like—the ribbon method! Perhaps I’ll get used to it, but I wish ON 2010 provided an option to display menus the old fashioned way.

Overall, I like OneNote 2010 so far. I anticipate using it a lot more now.

Steve