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If you have installed Office or Office , you would have noticed that OneNote is missing from the installation. Microsoft is ditching OneNote in favor of the OneNote app bundled with Windows

OneNote is an all in one note-taking, information gathering and multi-user collaboration tool from Microsoft. It supports notes, drawings, handwriting, screen clipping, audio, and video, etc.

Download OneNote

Download OneNote for Windows 10 from Windows Store

This link will open the Windows Store. This only works on Windows

Download OneNote bit for Windows Desktop

Download OneNote bit for Windows Desktop

The above-mentioned links are web installers. You will need to run the installer to download and install the latest update of OneNote OneNote works for all versions of Windows including Windows 10, Windows 8/ and Windows 7.

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How to install OneNote

Once you have downloaded the setup file, run the installer and wait for the download to complete.

Once installed, you can search for OneNote from the Start Menu and you will find two entries, OneNote app and OneNote

You will need to sign in with your Microsoft ID to start OneNote

Uninstall OneNote

Both these apps can be used side by side. But if you want to completely remove one app, you can do it from Apps and features.

1. Open Apps and features (Windows key + X + F)
2. Search for OneNote
3. Select the app you want to uninstall and press the Uninstall button.
   

Difference between OneNote and OneNote App

OneNote was released as a Desktop app that came with Microsoft Office Suite. OneNote for Windows 10 comes as a pre-installed app in Windows

Microsoft is stilly porting all the features of OneNote to the new OneNote app. From March , the new OneNote app will be bundled with Office and Office So it’ll still come as OneNote for Desktop app.

Here are the features of each app:

OneNote App

• View all notes sorted by when you last opened them
• Preview your notes without having to open the page
• Transform your drawings into shapes automatically
• See who’s working with you on a shared notebook
• Share a single page instead of the entire notebook
• Write out an equation and solve it using Ink Math Assistant
• Use pencil ink to draw or sketch
• Windows 10 integration includes:
  • Take notes with Surface Pen even when the device is locked
  • Tell Cortana to take notes with your voice
  • Quickly jump to a new page by selecting the Note button in Action Center
  • Write on a webpage in Microsoft Edge and save your annotations to OneNote
  • Share notes with any app with the Share button
  • Use the device’s camera to capture documents, whiteboards, receipts and more directly into OneNote

OneNote

These are the features unique to OneNote Microsoft is slowly adding all these features to the OneNote app.

• Capture a screen clipping and add it to your notes
• Print anything on your computer directly to OneNote
• Office Suite integration includes:
  • Insert meeting details from Outlook into your notes
  • Insert an embedded Excel spreadsheet into your notes
  • Create tasks in OneNote and have them appear in Outlook
• Save or backup your notes on a local hard drive instead of the cloud

Migrating Notes from OneNote to OneNote App

Since Microsoft plans to continue with the OneNote app, it is advised to migrate all your notes from OneNote to the OneNote app. Here are the steps involved:

1. Open OneNote
2. Go to File menu –> Options –> Save & Backup
3. Click on the Back Up All Notebooks Now button under Backup.
4. All data will be backed up in the folder mentioned in the Save section.
   

You can take this backup on any PC and place it under your Documents folder. The new OneNote app will automatically detect the new notebooks.

1. Open OneNote app
2. Click on the currently active notebook name
3. From the drop-down, select More Notebooks…
4. Here you will be able to see a list of all your Notebooks.
   

Please note that the notebooks you copied from the backup will have (On this computer) label in front of them. Once opened, you will need to select a Microsoft ID where these will be uploaded. Unfortunately, the OneNote app does not work with local notebooks.

Which tool do you use for note-taking? OneNote is my favorite app for taking notes and organizing my data. Now I’m moving to the new OneNote app which comes pre-installed with Windows Will you still use OneNote or move to the new app?