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OneNote

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What is OneNote?

Microsoft's OneNote is a digital note-taking app, supporting photos, annotating, web page clipping, emailing, and synchronizing notes across devices.

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OneNote

9 out of 10
March 07, 2023
OneNote allows us to take digital hand written notes with clients converting notes into the CRM easily and effectively. It allows …
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Microsoft OneNote

Free

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Office 2010 - OneNote 2010 demo för skola

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Microsoft OneNote 2010 Demo - Organize your Notes

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SharePoint 2010 Create OneNote Documentation Library

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OneNote Demo - Windows 8 RT Surface

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Product Details

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OneNote Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Microsoft's OneNote is a digital note-taking app, supporting photos, annotating, web page clipping, emailing, and synchronizing notes across devices.

Evernote are common alternatives for OneNote.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.5.

The most common users of OneNote are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use OneNote on a daily bases with my organization for meetings, tasks, ideas, technical writing, notes, reminders and schedules to name a few. It automatically saves so I don't have to along with saving a backup wherever I need it to be. I connect it to my phone so I have it everywhere I go since it is connected to OneDrive. I can add emails and pictures along with other programs into it to help me when needed. It connects to browser and server links so I know where to look up procedures. It lets me categorize my jobs and it is easy to search for them with the Search tool. I can record notes and keep them all in one place. I can share my notes with others. If I am working on a tablet I can even write my notes down in OneNote using my stylus.You can draw, sketch, highlight, and format in this program. Enter graphs and spreadsheets, presentations, along with videos. You can lock pages or folders using a secure password. I use this for my sensitive items. This program is a great knowledge base product to use for technical instructions and training. I even use it for my yearly Goals and it keeps me on track to set and complete these goals. I have never has a problem with this product that needs to be addressed.
March 07, 2023

OneNote

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
OneNote allows us to take digital hand written notes with clients converting notes into the CRM easily and effectively. It allows additional notes to be inserted into previous notes, time stamps for industry compliance and best of all convert the notes to PDF at the end. It works naturally within the Microsoft Office environment and industry specific software platforms
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Being a Managed Services Provider I need to take a lot of notes and store most of them. I wanted software that would replace having to use so much paper and than having those papers filed away which takes time and valuable space in a one room office. OneNote solves all of that by being my only note taking software as well as organizing all my notes in digital notebooks.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Onenote as a personal checklist for our organization. It is also used within the department for collaboration on projects, tracking meeting agendas and notes, and the status of projects. We use it every day within the department to keep projects on track an
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use OneNote daily for everything from taking basic general notes to recording meeting minutes and attendance for our project meetings. OneNote is very handy for offline note taking as well as being able to share entire notebooks with colleagues that we all can add to whenever we need. This software is great for collaboration.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I mainly use OneNote to backup data from Facebook (posts in my own small group) and to use each note (each post is a new note) as a to-do list putting them in different sections of a notebook once the issue is raised in it has been handled. I use Pabbly to integrate between the two.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OneNote is used by everyone in our organization - field employees, estimators, project managers, and even our president uses it! OneNote helps us keep all of our information concise, while also letting us separate based on topic. OneNote has been a tremendous help to our company.
William (Matt) Wood | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It was being used across the organization to the best of my knowledge, however I would say that it was used more heavily in the Implementation and Sales Engineering departments, both of which I was a team member of. It created a holistic environment to keep notes pertaining to the current subscribers I was implementing and prospect notes that I used to mature deals through the pipe.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
OneNote is being used on an individual basis throughout the organization. Because it is now freely available, many users use it as their preferred note-taking platform for jotting down notes, action items, and capturing other content for later consumption. OneNote enjoys integration with the Microsoft Office suite of tools and as a result, users enjoy integration with OneDrive for Cloud syncing and other benefits.
Jill Liegghio | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use OneNote for personal note taking as well as creating shared notebooks for different teams and projects. Our team note books include sections for meeting notes, work instructions, frequently used sites and contact information. As a manager, I have sections for future team and project strategies as well as staff pages for information tracking and development planning.
Gavin Scott-Miller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company provides a Microsoft 365 license to its employees. So having the application pre-installed was what made me look into it to begin with. Our company uses it to varying degrees, though I personally use it as a repository of all information that isn't better suited as a full fledged document.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our department is using OneNote. I am pretty sure many people in my organization use OneNote. It is an excellent program for multi-user collaboration. I use it to create training manuals so that I can share them with my team. I also use it to manage my own workload. We can make notes, drawings, screen clippings, attach emails, and audio commentaries, which is excellent.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OneNote is being used by our organization to manage the employee documents in a secure and organized manner. It's very convenient to update and access them at any place, and it helps the HR job get done easier and quicker.
December 05, 2019

OneNote Review

Jeff Henkel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use OneNote mainly for copying web addresses and articles into one location. I have multiple tags all for different uses. I find that sometimes when I am researching an issue for a client, instead of printing out the article I tag it under various topics in OneNote. In addition, while I am searching for information on one topic I may run across another topic that sparks my interest. So OneNote has become the one place where I can not only place research topics for current use but also store ideas and resources for future problem solving or brainstorming.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use OneNote individually, departmentally, and interdepartmentally throughout the entire organization. It is an excellent tool for capturing notes, meeting minutes, checklists, and project-related tasks. It enables collaboration and improves communication by allowing shared notebooks that multiple users can edit at the same time. It also automatically tags edits with the user's initials who made them, thereby providing a basic level of traceability.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the entire Microsoft Office suite at our company and everything ties into Office. We use Outlook for email, Skype for Business as our chat/virtual meeting environment, OneDrive as our cloud storage, and of course OneNote as the preferred note-taking utility. Everyone in the company has a license for Office, including OneNote and it is the main utility that is supported by our IT department.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OneNote is being used on an individual basis throughout the organization. Because it is now freely available, many users use it as their preferred note-taking platform for jotting down notes, action items, and capturing other content for later consumption. OneNote enjoys integration with the Microsoft Office suite of tools and as a result, users enjoy integration with OneDrive for Cloud syncing and other benefits.
September 26, 2019

OneNote for Education

Amy Welsh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OneNote is currently being used by our entire organization. We use OneNote Class Notebooks to interact with our students both inside and outside of class. I post content, assignments, assessments, remediation and extension for my students to access. I also interact with my students by providing feedback in their notebooks. We also use OneNote as a way for faculty to collaborate.
September 10, 2019

OneNote is the one you need

Lukas Sundahl, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is being used in our department to keep track of various contract documents. It helps us organize everything that relates to a specific contract in one place. It helps keep everything organized and in a format that allows for expedited retrieval. The time stamp feature allows us to organize content so the most recent updates are at the top.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OneNote is frequently used by employees within the organization to keep track of information and tasks in Audit. It is used by employees in multiple areas of the organization to keep track of tasks and remember important information given to us by clients.
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