13 Facts About Microsoft OneNote

Microsoft OneNote is a note-taking program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration.

Microsoft OneNote saves data automatically as the user makes edits to their file.

Microsoft OneNote saves information in pages organized into sections within notebooks.

Microsoft OneNote designed this user interface to resemble a tabbed ring binder, into which the user can directly make notes and gather material from other applications.

Microsoft OneNote notebooks collect, organize and share possibly unpublished materials – as compared to word processors and wikis, which usually target publishing in some way.

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Microsoft OneNote can perform optical character recognition on images of text and can render webpages as snapshot images.

Microsoft OneNote notebook is stored as a folder with a separate data file for each section.

Dropbox was supported for some time as a sync protocol, but after Windows Live Mesh was discontinued, Microsoft OneNote supported it for cloud-based storage and synchronization of Microsoft OneNote files.

Microsoft OneNote clients, including the Microsoft OneNote web app of Office Online, can view and edit them.

In 2018, Microsoft announced that for OneNote on Windows, the Universal Windows Platform based OneNote for Windows 10, would be the default experience for Office users on Windows.

However, in 2019 Microsoft OneNote reversed this decision and announced that both versions would receive active development and the desktop version would be installed with Office by default.

Christopher Dawson reviewed Microsoft OneNote 2010, titling his favorable review "Microsoft OneNote is Office 2010's killer app in education".

Microsoft OneNote speculated that the app would be particularly useful as a tool for student notetaking.