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Microsoft OneNote is a note-taking program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It gathers users' notes, drawings, screen clippings, and audio commentaries. Notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network. OneNote is available as part of the Microsoft Office Suite^[5], it is also available as a free, standalone app via the app stores of Windows 10, macOS, iOS and Android.^[6] Microsoft also provides a web-based version of OneNote as part of OneDrive and Office for the web; this version enables users to edit notes in a web browser.

Overview[edit]

In OneNote, users can create notes that can include text, pictures, tables, and drawings. Unlike a word processor, OneNote features a virtually unbounded document window, in which users can click anywhere on the canvas to create a new text box at that location. OneNote saves data automatically as the user makes edits to their file.

OneNote saves information in pages organized into sections within notebooks. Microsoft designed this user interface to resemble a tabbed ring binder, into which the user can directly make notes and gather material from other applications. OneNote notebooks collect, organize, and share possibly unpublished materials – as compared to word processors and wikis, which usually target publishing in some way. The difference shows in certain OneNote features and characteristics:

• Pages can be arbitrarily large
• Images can be inserted
• There is no enforced uniform page layout or structure

Users can move pages within the binder and annotate them with a stylus or word-processing or drawing tools. Users may add embedded multimedia recordings and hyperlinks. They can also add embeddable content like YouTube videos^[7]. OneNote also integrates search features and indexing into a free-form graphics and audio repository. It can search for images (e.g., screen captures, embedded document scans, photographs) for embedded text-content. It also searches "electronic ink" annotations as text, and phonetically searches audio recordings on a text key. It can replay audio concurrently with notes taken during the recording. It can also extract or copy texts from images and documents using Optical Character Recognition^[8]

Its multi-user capability allows offline paragraph-level editing with later synchronization and merging. This allows collaboration among multiple individuals in a notebook when they are offline. More than one person can work on the same page at the same time using OneNote as a shared whiteboard environment.

On March 17, , Microsoft released the OneNote cloud service API that enables third-party application developers to integrate the service into their apps. The API runs on Microsoft's globally available cloud and sends data from applications into the user's OneDrive. OneNote can perform optical character recognition on images of text and can render webpages as snapshot images.^[6][9]

Microsoft also announced a number of new features in OneNote that use the service API:

• OneNote Clipper: A browser bookmarklet that uses the OneNote service API and enables users to save a screenshot of a webpage to OneNote along with the link. The text in the screenshot is made searchable using Optical Character Recognition.^[10]
• Email to OneNote: A feature enabling users to send emails to the address me@www.cronistalascolonias.com.ar from pre-specified email IDs to have the contents of the email saved to OneNote.^[11]

File format[edit]

(From left to right) file icons for sections and notebooks.

A OneNote notebook is stored as a folder with a separate data file for each section. A .one file can be a OneNote notebook or a OneNote section. OneNote files have a filename extension.^[12]

Microsoft upgraded the file format twice after it had introduced OneNote —first in OneNote , then in OneNote ^[13] OneNote files can be opened by both OneNote and OneNote in read-only mode, and subsequently upgraded to the later versions of the file format.^[14][15] OneNote can read and write OneNote file formats. It can also convert back and forth between the and the formats.^[15]

Microsoft has documented the OneNote file format. It is an open format that can store varied multimedia content in a single file.^[12][16][17]. OneNote file format is also supported by the Outline note-taking application for iPad and Mac. Outline can open, edit and save notebooks in the OneNote file format.

Multiple .one files can be exported to a .onepkg file, which stores multiple .one files (corresponding to the individual notebooks) in cabinet file format.

Platform support[edit]

OneNote supports simultaneous editing of shared OneNote documents by multiple users when the document is stored in a shared folder in OneDrive. Dropbox was supported for some time as a sync protocol, but after Windows Live Mesh was discontinued, OneNote supported it for cloud-based storage and synchronization of OneNote files. OneNote clients, including OneNote web app of Office Online, can view and edit them.

OneNote is also available for mobile phones. Microsoft has released a stand-alone OneNote app for iOS^[18] and Android, which are each free for up to 5GB of storage as part of OneDrive. Beyond 5GB, users can upgrade OneDrive to expand their storage. On July 1, , Microsoft released version 2 of its app for iPad, containing significantly updated features, to correspond more closely to those available on the Windows platform. On August 19, , Microsoft updated OneNote for Android Tablets to include handwriting support and touch-friendly navigation.^[19]This version supports notebooks stored on OneDrive or SharePoint.

OneNote Mobile for older Windows Mobile smartphones and pocket PCs was included with OneNote OneNote was available on Symbian as part of Microsoft Apps.^[20] A Windows Store version of OneNote (formally known as OneNote MX) was available for Windows 8 and RT, using OneDrive as a storage place. It is optimized for use on tablets by implementing a pie menu interface and invoking operating system's tablet-specific functionality.^[21]

On March 17, , Microsoft released OneNote for Mac. It is compatible with Mac OS X and above and can be downloaded for free from the Mac App Store.^[22] Microsoft also made OneNote for Windows desktop available for free. OneNote for Windows and Mac are both based on a freemium model. Premium features such as SharePoint support, version history and Outlook integration were previously available only to Office and Office customers,^[6][23] but on February 13, , Microsoft removed all feature restrictions, except creation of local notebooks -- the free edition only stores notebooks on OneDrive -- from the programs, essentially making the program completely free to use.^[24]

Microsoft OneNote has become an integral part of Windows 10 and its mobile phone counterpart, with features that bring the app more in line with its iPhone/iPad and Android counterparts. However, the Android app allows only three minutes of audio recording as of July ^{[citation needed]}

In , Microsoft had announced that for OneNote on Windows, the Universal Windows Platform version of OneNote – OneNote for Windows 10 – would be the default experience for Office users on Windows. The Win32/Win64 "desktop" version would remain known as OneNote despite the release of Office , would no longer receive new features, and would not be installed with Office by default, but remain available as an option.^[25]

However, in Microsoft reversed this decision, and announced that both versions would receive active development, and the desktop version would once again be installed with Office by default.^[26] The desktop application was renamed to simply OneNote,^[27] matching the other programs in Office

Version and licensing differences[edit]

The desktop OneNote and OneNote for Windows 10 have different functionality and user interfaces, which also differ from the versions for other platforms. Compared to OneNote for Windows 10, the desktop OneNote has a full Office ribbon interface, features the most customization options, runs on multiple versions of Windows, and provides for the possibility of local notebook support as opposed to OneDrive cloud storage; it is the only version for any platform to offer the latter feature,^[28] even as a paid option.

In addition to the version differences, OneNote features on Windows and Mac vary according to whether it is installed as a free or paid program. If a "compatible"^[28] Office license (whether for the subscription Office or the perpetual Office ) is present on the machine, the Windows desktop, Windows 10, and Mac versions all unlock additional functionality, which varies depending on the version: the desktop OneNote adds local notebook support, the Mac version adds stickers, and OneNote for Windows 10 gains a number of features including stickers, ink replay, Researcher, and Math Assistant. More premium features are in development for the Mac and Windows 10 versions.^[27]

Reviews[edit]

Christopher Dawson reviewed OneNote , titling his favorable review "OneNote is Office 's killer app in education".^[29] He speculated that the app would be particularly useful as a tool for student notetaking.

Release history[edit]

Microsoft OneNote with an open side note

All release dates pertain general availability. Release to manufacturing is usually two or three months in advance.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Pratley, Chris (January 30, ). "OneNote genesis". Chris Pratley's Office Labs and OneNote Blog. Microsoft. Retrieved March 9,

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