Introducing OneNote for Mac • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by radicalbyte » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 3:42 PM UTC

Awesome.

Poor Outline (http://outline.ws/mac) :(

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

#12

Post by serge2k » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 3:42 PM UTC

robinhoodexe wrote: post #4

Still no support for LaTeX... Nice for non-scientific classes tough.

I used onenote + my lenovo x201t for all my upper level math courses. It was great.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by thearn4 » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 3:44 PM UTC

Very nice, OneNote is a pretty fantastic program that I never really found a good replacement for. I used it mostly for college course lecturing, and it was great. Although I don't teach anymore, it would still be really handy for workshops and things like that.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by rayiner » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 3:46 PM UTC

Also new, Livescribe integration: http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/landingpage/ls3_onenote. Apparently MS has been working with hardware partners to build more compatible apps and devices: http://blogs.office.com/2014/03/17/onenote-now-on-mac-free-e....

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by jezfromfuture » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 3:49 PM UTC

Pile of shit , can't believe Microsoft do this to us mac owners. It doesn't actually open windows one note created files so pointless.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by weslly » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 3:50 PM UTC

Looks and works surprisingly good for a MS app outside Windows. I hope someday Microsoft will also release a Linux version.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by dpatriarche » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 3:51 PM UTC

I've been looking forward to OneNote on the Mac for years. I installed it and found out there is no option for offline notebooks; all notebooks appear to be synced through the OneDrive cloud. WTF? There's not even the option to encrypt notebooks in the cloud. I'm just not going to share all my personal thoughts and notes with the NSA. I'm disappointed.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by bskap » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 3:53 PM UTC

robinhoodexe wrote: post #4

Still no support for LaTeX... Nice for non-scientific classes tough.

The equation editor in Office uses the LaTeX escapes for the symbols, which makes it work reasonably well for the scientific classes.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by caiob » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 3:53 PM UTC

How exactly is this better than Evernote?

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by batoure » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 3:56 PM UTC

dpatriarche wrote: post #17

I've been looking forward to OneNote on the Mac for years. I installed it and found out there is no option for offline notebooks; all notebooks appear to be synced through the OneDrive cloud. WTF? There's not even the option to encrypt notebooks in the cloud. I'm just not going to share all my personal thoughts and notes with the NSA. I'm disappointed.

>I installed it and found out there is no option for offline notebooks;

It scares me the way this seems to be a statement on the future of Microsoft office. The windows 8.1 styled version of onenote functions the same way. It is also crippled so that you can't lock sections the way that you could in onenote for desktop.