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Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by gum_ina_package » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 6:21 PM UTC

methehack wrote: post #58

Meh. Against my better judgment, I downloaded it and poked around. Predictably, it does not play well others. Most notable, there is no export functionality. There is a 'Share as PDF' which is (a) not the same, and (b) broken for me because 'my email program is not set up properly' which is false. Hard to trust. (Evernote has a fine export capability, fwiw). One Note will, however, appeal to people who prefer 'struct…

Tagging is simply not how OneNote does things. If you're looking for that, use something else. Where OneNote excels is in giving you a tool to organize and manage your structured content. Personally, I prefer that paradigm since it gives you so much more control as well as allows you (in my opinion) to organize your thoughts and ideas better.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by moonlighter » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 6:29 PM UTC

I wish it would offer iCloud as an alternative to OneDrive (and remove the need for an Microsoft Account) but I can see that MS wants to use their own services and get you to use them in the process.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by r00fus » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 6:31 PM UTC

methehack wrote: post #58

Meh. Against my better judgment, I downloaded it and poked around. Predictably, it does not play well others. Most notable, there is no export functionality. There is a 'Share as PDF' which is (a) not the same, and (b) broken for me because 'my email program is not set up properly' which is false. Hard to trust. (Evernote has a fine export capability, fwiw). One Note will, however, appeal to people who prefer 'struct…

I just want to chime in on how frustrating it is that you can't save Outlook emails in a standard non-mircorosft format that another mail client can understand (even Outlook on Windows) - apparently it saves it as ".olm" format (Outlook for Mac). Serious WTF here.

For this reason alone, I'm still using a Windows VM simply for the "real" Outlook for work purposes.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by k_bx » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 6:34 PM UTC

That non-scrollable top-bar on a website is so silly.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by r00fus » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 6:34 PM UTC

ericcumbee wrote: post #90

otterpro wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No print and no export functionality are a deal breaker for me. I want to own my data, but unfortunately even my own data could only live inside Microsoft's domain. This is the vendor lock-in that I don't want to face.

except for the fact that you can print and export in other versions of onenote. and this is a 1.0

Well I think otterpro's comment still stands. When OneNote for Mac grows up, it might require another look.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by ChuckMcM » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 6:43 PM UTC

bjtitus wrote: post #44

ChuckMcM wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't be silly, local notebooks are a really useful thing when flying and when out of range of cell service (like camping, which is a great time for continual thinking without distraction). Without a capability for offline notes it will be less useful than if it had that capability.

You can work offline just fine. Notebooks will sync when you are back online. Seems like that covers all of your use cases just fine. Not sure how well the merges work in practice, though.

   > Not sure how well the merges work in practice, though.

Not too well in Evernote has been my experience. It seems like every time I work on something offline for any length of time it gets into a manual merge bucket.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by OOvsuOO » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 6:43 PM UTC

Wow.. that's sweet but really come on only supporting mavericks OS. And already.. if you have a iPad the notes app automatically synchronizes with the mail server (I use web based email service mostly.) I didn't even set it up or should I say allow the iPad to do so.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by thinkling » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 6:47 PM UTC

FYI, Mac App Store told me OneNote runs on Mavericks (10.9) only.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by thinkling » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 6:49 PM UTC

bjtitus wrote: post #44

ChuckMcM wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't be silly, local notebooks are a really useful thing when flying and when out of range of cell service (like camping, which is a great time for continual thinking without distraction). Without a capability for offline notes it will be less useful than if it had that capability.

You can work offline just fine. Notebooks will sync when you are back online. Seems like that covers all of your use cases just fine. Not sure how well the merges work in practice, though.

So there's a local cached copy that you can back up if you're a stickler for keeping local backups of your data?

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by malandrew » Mon, Mar 17, 2014, 6:55 PM UTC

It's so incredibly "windows" in design. In a typical OS X app the toolbar at the top would be greatly simplified and a lot of lesser used functionality would be relegated to contextual inspectors.