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Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by stcredzero »

petercooper wrote: post #5

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, inhou…

Microsoft would benefit from a separate division of small groups making stuff that's simple and "just works," then expand the company into the new products, as Macintosh grew from Apple. Right now, Apple is vulnerable in this regard.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by atmosx »

lispm wrote: post #115
gum_ina_package wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The future is in the cloud though, and OneNote has always (for the ~3 years I've been using it) worked this way. Everything is synced with the cloud.

So I share my ideas with Microsoft and the NSA? NO WAY.

Well, if you want cloud sync, the NSA is in no matter what: Dropbox, Evernote, OneNote, you-name-it.

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Post by jameslau-msft »

bryanh wrote: post #119

We also just added this to Zapier in about 40 minutes with our developer platform [0], so if you want to create notes automatically, check us out: https://zapier.com/zapbook/onenote/ [0] https://zapier.com/developer/

Would love to try this, but it says it's not yet available?

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Post by auxbuss »

simplify wrote: post #36
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?

You're looking for Notational Velocity. It's free, open source, minimalistic, keyboard-centric, and extremely fast. I use it all day, every day. http://notational.net/screenshots.html It doesn't quite do images, since it's text only. nvALT is a fork of the project with extra features. Its image support might fit your needs: http://brettterpstra.com/2012/09/27/quick-tip-images-in-nval...

Thanks for this. I'm only a few weeks in on OSX and nvALT is just what I was looking for. I also hooked it up with iA Writer, which is only $5 at the moment.

I was looking for a personal wiki-type thing on OSX, but this is a fantastic set-up for me.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by suyash »

caiob wrote: post #19

How exactly is this better than Evernote?

I've never felt safe with my data with Evernote. They have been hacked quite a few times and sent me password change email requests as well numerous times.

Plus, I've lost post due to sync error on Evernote between devices often, mobile app is pretty poor - crashes often :(

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by suyash »

curiousDog wrote: post #50

Nice! This and Visual Studio are probably the pieces of software to have come out of msft.

The whole Office Suite was the best product for quite a while. I prefer OSX alternates though now. XCode for C/C++/ObjC and Keynote for PowerPoint etc.
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