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Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by awa »

neves wrote: post #80
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…

Can I access through a web browser? And from my Linux desktop?

You can access it via Office Online... go to onenote.com

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by ericcumbee »

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.…

my guess is that it relied on a Windows API thats not available on mac. stuff like that might show up again at some point. i did love the audio recording function.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by otterpro »

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...

My life depends on Notational Velocity. It's the fastest note taking system I've ever used. The killer feature is the ability to go from search to edit instantly. It's so good, that I'd consider buying a Mac only because of it. I recommend NValt, a more updated fork.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by motdiem »

HarshaThota wrote: post #69
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 think these may just be the limitations of it being a 1.0 release. The Windows version has all of these features.

Agreed - However, I'm still weary of the internal OneNote Format - I haven't poked around, but last time I checked, it was a big binary undocumented blob basically - so the lack of a proper structured export is somewhat worrisome.

The UI looks great though - if only office for mac proper could follow with the same quality, it would be great.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by cyphunk »

markdown forever. ive seen institutions that use onenote for everything and i find it gives me a headache dealing with everyones own structuring model. it's like myspace all over again.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by cobalt »

motdiem wrote: post #84
HarshaThota wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think these may just be the limitations of it being a 1.0 release. The Windows version has all of these features.

Agreed - However, I'm still weary of the internal OneNote Format - I haven't poked around, but last time I checked, it was a big binary undocumented blob basically - so the lack of a proper structured export is somewhat worrisome. The UI looks great though - if only office for mac proper could follow with the same quality, it would be great.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_OneNote#File_format

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by motdiem »

motdiem wrote: post #84
HarshaThota wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think these may just be the limitations of it being a 1.0 release. The Windows version has all of these features.

Agreed - However, I'm still weary of the internal OneNote Format - I haven't poked around, but last time I checked, it was a big binary undocumented blob basically - so the lack of a proper structured export is somewhat worrisome. The UI looks great though - if only office for mac proper could follow with the same quality, it would be great.

Thanks cobalt for the link - since 2010 it has migrated to an XML format [1] - which is documented albeit not really human readable.

However, I can't figure out how to retrieve a .one file from the Mac Client to check for the format - anybody knows where it stores its file locally ?

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd924743(v=office.12...

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by otterpro »

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.

Re: Introducing OneNote for Mac

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Post by ericcumbee »

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.

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