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Getting to one OneNote on Windows
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By Mary Branscombe
It’s finally becoming less confusing to pick the right Windows OneNote app, but you still have some decisions to make.
After 16 years of OneNote, you might have liked the fresh new look of OneNote for Windows 10 and the way it could sync custom tags from one device to another. If that was the case, you might have liked Microsoft’s 2018 claim that it was “making OneNote for Windows 10 the best version of OneNote on Windows.”
The official angle then was that no new features would be coming to OneNote 2016.
Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.26.0, 2022-06-27).
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Why there isn’t just one OneNote
ISSUE 19.24 • 2022-06-13 ONENOTE
By Mary Branscombe
OneNote started out on Windows, and it’s been a sleeper success — but getting the full set of features has been confusing.
OneNote was always intended to be the one place that you put your notes — and all the other information you need to hang on to — “Things to do, important stuff to remember, things to review, and a bunch of stuff you think you might need some day but can’t be sure,” as Chris Pratley put it when describing his original idea for OneNote back in 2000.
It’s supremely useful for that.
Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.24.0, 2022-06-13).
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