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Re: OneNote Service API

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Post by nickbarnwell »

tremols wrote: post #5

Its interesting to see Microsoft launching startup-like products.. is this an acquisition or did they develop it from scratch?. Anyways this is something I would use; not sure if I would pay for it sometime soon.

I interned on the API team this summer and it was as close to a startup as you'll find inside a company the size of Microsoft.

OneNote itself was launched over ten years ago as part of the Office suite, while the OneNote service is just launching and has been developed completely internally.

Re: OneNote Service API

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Post by DiabloD3 »

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #8
peterb wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OneNote has been available for many years, it is one of the hidden gems in the office suite. Now they are going head-to-head with Evernote and making it available everywhere: OSX, iOS, Android, Windows, Windows Phone, etc.

Hopefully it will convince Evernote to make a linux client to set themselves apart.

That would be nice. Maybe OneNote will beat them.

Re: OneNote Service API

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Post by ericcumbee »

jorde wrote: post #6

What I was able to parse from the documentation, this seems to be "one way" API, meaning that one can only post new notes to OneNote but there's no way to read notes via the API. I was expecting a little more from Microsoft in 2014.

Just thinking about how I use onenote. Getting stuff into Onenote via an API is much more useful than getting stuff out of it via API.

Re: OneNote Service API

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Post by jameslau-msft »

ericcumbee wrote: post #13
jorde wrote: post #6

What I was able to parse from the documentation, this seems to be "one way" API, meaning that one can only post new notes to OneNote but there's no way to read notes via the API. I was expecting a little more from Microsoft in 2014.

Just thinking about how I use onenote. Getting stuff into Onenote via an API is much more useful than getting stuff out of it via API.

This is James from Microsoft. ericcumbee, that's exactly why we decided to prioritize the create APIs. But we have already started working on extending the API feature set to fill out the rest of CRUD. We will be blogging about our progress at blogs.msdn.com/b/onenotedev/

Re: OneNote Service API

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Post by Chris911 »

nickbarnwell wrote: post #11
tremols wrote: post #5

Its interesting to see Microsoft launching startup-like products.. is this an acquisition or did they develop it from scratch?. Anyways this is something I would use; not sure if I would pay for it sometime soon.

I interned on the API team this summer and it was as close to a startup as you'll find inside a company the size of Microsoft. OneNote itself was launched over ten years ago as part of the Office suite, while the OneNote service is just launching and has been developed completely internally.

In which group or division were you? DevDiv? Office? I also interned last year and interning again this summer and would like to work on something like this.

Re: OneNote Service API

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Post by r00fus »

I'm liking the new API-friendly approach of Microsoft. Once the "get" functionality to retrieve notes exists, I see many possibilities for alt. clients, add-ons and integrations which will make OneNote as a platform more compelling.

Re: OneNote Service API

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Post by rkarachinsky »

We (News360) were one of the launch partners for the OneNote API as well and our experience with it has also been really positive - the API itself is pretty simple right now but has all the details right. It's a great foundation to build on, and the team building it seems really committed to keeping the momentum going.

Having external tools, both hardware and software, is a huge part of building a memory-augmenting product and I'm really happy that Microsoft is getting it right - OneNote has always been a really interesting product, but it suffered from weird positioning and always felt like an add-on to Office more than anything else. Now that it's being marketed as more of a standalone (and free!) product, I think it has a great chance of becoming much more mainstream.

Re: OneNote Service API

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Post by jameslau-msft »

tremols wrote: post #5

Its interesting to see Microsoft launching startup-like products.. is this an acquisition or did they develop it from scratch?. Anyways this is something I would use; not sure if I would pay for it sometime soon.

We take that as a great compliment :) The service was developed from the ground up less than a year ago. Not only do we like working like a startup, we also love working WITH startups. Take a look at our launch partners http://www.onenote.com/apps. Feel free to contact us if your us on Twitter @onenotedev if you also want to be featured.

Re: OneNote Service API

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Post by nickbarnwell »

Chris911 wrote: post #15
nickbarnwell wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I interned on the API team this summer and it was as close to a startup as you'll find inside a company the size of Microsoft. OneNote itself was launched over ten years ago as part of the Office suite, while the OneNote service is just launching and has been developed completely internally.

In which group or division were you? DevDiv? Office? I also interned last year and interning again this summer and would like to work on something like this.

The OneNote Service & OneNote teams are both part of Office.
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