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Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by petercooper »

Free, good looking, fast (so far).. color me impressed. And I access my notes on iOS, Mac, Windows, Windows Phone and Android?

Maybe I'm being idealistic but I'd love to see Microsoft become a truly cross-platform "enterprise-quality" software house. There's tons of great software out there, but rather little that works seamlessly (or even well) across iOS, Android, Windows and the Mac.. and with its resources, inhouse expertise, and no truly successful mobile platform to evangelize, Microsoft seems well placed to take on such a role.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by toddmorey »

Love to see this out there, but it seems to suffer from the same visual clutter that I believe Evernote does. I love the OCR technology of Evernote, but I have the hardest time with it as a writing environment. Does anyone know of a nice, clean note taking environment for Mac that still supports links between notes and the occasional image?

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by drone »

goshx wrote: post #3

Finally! IMO OneNote was the best software in the MS Office pack. It was tough to transition to other apps when I moved to Mac.

Agreed, OneNote was my favorite Office app, and was my go-to note-taking app until I switched to a macbook. It made keeping notes in meeting much easier with recording and syncing.

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Post by arikrak »

When I switched to a Mac, I had to switch from OneNote to Evernote. I missed the various levels of structure OneNote provides, and also found Evernote occasionally glitchy. So it's nice to see Microsoft finally come out with this.

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Post by FreezerburnV »

toddmorey wrote: post #6

Love to see this out there, but it seems to suffer from the same visual clutter that I believe Evernote does. I love the OCR technology of Evernote, but I have the hardest time with it as a writing environment. Does anyone know of a nice, clean note taking environment for Mac that still supports links between notes and the occasional image?

There are a couple that I can think of that are in the same kind of vein as OneNote:

- Growly Notes, (free) which actually partly emulates how OneNote works: http://growlybird.com/notes/index.html

- Circus Ponies Notebook, (paid, $50) which is very different from OneNote but is a good note taking environment and is quite clean and has some good features

- And if you really need some insane power: Curio, (paid, $100) where the basic concept is to emulate the power of a whiteboard. It includes things like mindmaps, tables, linking between boards, etc. The features list is insane.

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