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Posted by Daly de Gagne
Apr 25, 2018 at 04:35 PM
I wanted to like OneNote - I found it visually attractive, and appreciated the notebook metaphor.
But, being able to organize to only 2 or 3 levels meant a need for some robust tagging capability. But it never happened, although Microsoft was told about that need often enough by many OneNote users.
The other weakness in OneNote was that its web clipping capability was pretty poor compared with, say, Evernote’s. Again, that was a common complaint, but MS never seemed to take it seriously.
Lastly, ON has one of the worst highlighters I have ever seen. It’s not rocket science to get that right.
So…I am left wondering how serious MS is with ON. A little more thought on their part, and they could bat Evernote out of the park.
Daly
Posted by bartb
Apr 25, 2018 at 04:55 PM
Purely anecdotal … I can’t remember the exact quote but I think I heard it on a Canvas podcast (Relay FM). Hosted by Federico Viticci and Fraser Speirs, Canvas is a podcast all about mobile productivity. Federico and Fraser walk through workflows, exploring the best apps for the iPad and iPhone and helping users solve problems.
Fraser designed and deployed the world’s first whole-school 1:1 iPad deployment.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Apr 25, 2018 at 09:19 PM
bartb wrote:
>Purely anecdotal … I can’t remember the exact quote but I
>think I heard it on a Canvas podcast (Relay FM). Hosted by Federico
>Viticci and Fraser Speirs,
Ahm, are you talking about this:
“From a device/network management point of view: if you’re a teacher or administrator, then Chrome books are a godsend - if you’re a student, not so much (they can’t wait to get home to their iPad’s).”
Or which part of this?
Posted by $Bill
Apr 26, 2018 at 03:54 AM
Ken wrote:
>The web-based version is
>missing many of the more powerful features that are found in the desktop
>version, and that is not a direction that that leads me to want to use
>OneNote. And, I am not sure what features are growing that you find
>appealing, but I am not certain if they will mitigate the loss of the
>desktop features that have been pulled.
The announcement was about discontinuing Onenote 2016 in favor of Onenote for Windows 10- not the web-based version.
The feature set of Onenote for Windows 10 exceeds that of Onenote 2016 in many ways and the pace of development has been brisk.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/what-s-the-difference-between-onenote-and-onenote-2016-a624e692-b78b-4c09-b07f-46181958118f
Posted by tightbeam
Apr 26, 2018 at 11:13 AM
OneNote for Windows 10 does not have this “legacy” feature from OneNote 2016:
“Store notebooks on your local hard drive instead of in the cloud, including backups”
Until it does - and it’s by no means likely that it ever will - I’m hesitant to use it, and I’m sure I am not alone.