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Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by suyash »

baldfat wrote: post #73

Microphone! If you connected a microphone to OneNote it would sync the audio with your note taking (I had a Tablet which I used to hand write my note) Was the best thing EVER. OneNote will even search handwritten notes and audio. Study Guides = I would then click on my notes and OneNote would play the audio of the professor and I could relive the lectures that went with the study guide. Everyone loved it in my class.…

thanks for mentioning those two awesome features, I can see them being very useful, didn't knew they existed.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by r00fus »

ruff wrote: post #117
r00fus wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

FYI If you drag one or more e-mail message out of Outlook for Mac, it creates .eml files. These are just RFC2822 MIME source with a file extension—almost any mail client out there can read them. If you drag an entire folder out, it creates a .mbox file. This is also a standard that many mail clients can read/import (Mail.app included).

Huge thanks on that, ruff. This definitely thrills me :)

Just wondering why the hell isn't this part of the export menu... great feature, undiscoverable as hell.

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Post by kellyhclay »

rrreese wrote: post #37
vittore wrote: post #22

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Have you tried Evernote at all? what does it miss compared to onenote?

I used Evernote fairly extensively a couple of years ago. It had a long way to go back then. In OneNote if you want a table you can type something and hit tab. What you wrote will be in a cell, and you will be inserting in the next cell. Tab again for another cell. Cells created like this merge if placed together. Tables in general are leagues ahead in OneNote. One note also acts like a note book. you can write anywh…

I was about to ask "what is the difference between OneNote and Evernote" since I haven't used OneNote since 2006 and am obsessed with Evernote, and you just nailed it. Thank you.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by Karunamon »

ericcumbee wrote: post #112
dippyskoodlez wrote: post #104

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That's exactly the problem. I would expect these essential missing features from a beta, not a release.

and the last time i printed something from onenote was in college.

the "print" option often serves as a gateway into various things.. PDF and other format converters.

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Post by orthecreedence »

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.

It's early stage, but try https://turtl.it. Works on mac. Encrypts everything. Offline mode is in the works.

Disclosure: I built it.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by orthecreedence »

dpatriarche wrote: post #35
gum_ina_package wrote: post #26

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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.

Which is great! My business is based on cloud computing. I totally see the value of syncing my business notes through the cloud to my other devices. But I need the option of flagging certain notebooks as private and not to be synced. So I guess I'll stick with Yojimbo for personal notes.

Or try Turtl (https://turtl.it). We're early stage, but everything is private by default (client-side encrypted) before syncing to "the cloud." Your data is available everywhere but completely private. This is great for small businesses who don't want to have to worry about whether what they're uploading is sensitive or not.

Disclosure: I'm the one building it =].

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by Angostura »

otterpro wrote: post #89
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…

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.

No local storage rather did it for me. Everything has to be on MS Drive, as far as I can see.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by orthecreedence »

atmosx wrote: post #122
lispm wrote: post #115

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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.

Unless said app uses client-side encryption for everything.
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