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Overview

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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A must-have for digital note-taking

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 20, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
I use OneNote for all sorts of note-taking. This includes meeting minutes, brainstorming ideas, to-do lists, etc. By leveraging OneNote's features such as collaboration and in...
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Verified user
Employee
OneNote3 years of experience

OneNote - The best way to organize and create your ideas and documentations.

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 9, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 do...
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Diane Gannon
Technician - Information Technology
Sr. Systems Technician
Air Vent, Inc
OneNote10 years of experience

OneNote

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 7, 2023
Vetted ReviewVerified 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...
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Deon Coffey
Advisor - Finance and Accounting
Broker
Coffey lending
OneNote5 years of experience

OneNote: Create and organize notebooks and binders digitally

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 9, 2022
IncentivizedVetted Review
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 ...
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Rich Lusk
Executive - Other
Owner
DiamondNet, Inc.
OneNote10 years of experience

OneNote - Excellent for notetaking and collaboration

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 25, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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...
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Chris Rippley
Project Manager - Information Technology
Technical Project Engineer
Kinsley Construction, Inc.
OneNote5 years of experience
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Pricing

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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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Product Demos

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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

What is OneNote?

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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 Performance highest, with a score of 8.8.

The most common users of OneNote are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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OneNote: Making Information Easy to Organize

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 24, 2014
RI
Ray Ideen
Senior Administrative Assistant
Hennepin County | Center of Innovation & Excellence (Government Administration, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
OneNote
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
OneNote is used throughout our organization. It assists areas in many ways, but specific to my area, we use it as an information repository and a central point of reference for many topics, from meeting agendas, notes, and attachments to policy and proceedure housing.
Pros
  • OneNote makes organization easy!
  • OneNote can serve as a central repository for an entire department's materials.
  • OneNote can also capture just your own personal information. It's all about how you set it up and use it to organize information.
Cons
  • If you do not understand the basic structure of how to setup a OneNote database, it can be cumbersome to learn at first.
  • Regarding a shared OneNote database: Your organizational structure may not always be how someone else would structure information.
Likelihood to Recommend
OneNote is fantastic at organizing information.

During selection, ask for specific examples of how information could be organized to generate ideas about how you would organize your content.

OneNote makes collaboration easy!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 06, 2019
JD
Jill Dickert
Associate Product Manager
The E.W. Scripps Company (Media Production, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
OneNote
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use OneNote throughout the organization for a variety of needs. My department has created product and operation guides using the platform. It is a great collaborative tool as we are all owners of different products and can utilize the workbook feature to create a comprehensive manual that is easily updated and shared to multiple users.
Pros
  • Offers collaboration for multiple users to work on a product
  • Excellent tool for taking notes at a conference
  • Keeps documents organized in a searchable manner
Cons
  • I really don't see any needed areas of improvement
Likelihood to Recommend
OneNote is definitely well suited for creating process documents for a manual or other type of guidebook for a large audience. I also personally found it incredibly helpful when attending conferences as I was able to devote a section to each session. OneNote allows the user to easily organize files and update pages. The searchability features are super helpful too.

My overall Satisfaction with using OneNote

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 23, 2021
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usha G
Manager
Genpact (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
OneNote
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • This is good at capturing multiple sources of input - drawings, web clippings, graphics, and others. This enables you to enrich your notes with any and all relevant content, without necessarily needing to remember where it came from.
  • Share the notes with my colleagues.
  • Ability to save audio notes.
  • Ability for my colleagues to update the notes.
  • SSL handling.
Cons
  • feature for my colleagues/team members to update the notes.
  • Dev tools all should be based on the eclipse side
Likelihood to Recommend
1. OneNote's integration with OneDrive ensures that individual's notes are always safe and secure, taking away the tedious responsibility of backup from the user, and makes it happen seamlessly in the background.
2. OneNote can be used for multiple purposes. It definitely improves my daily productivity and thereby improves performance.
3. Notes security is top notch. Starting at the network port level down to field level encryption.


Using OneNote as a CRM Replacement for consulting

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 26, 2016
AM
Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP
Principal Security Consultant
Insight (Information Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
OneNote
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We currently use OneNote to share and sync our important client details for job visits, etc. Instead of having to publish a full suite CRM to manage customer calls we have templates created in OneNote that include the job details and blanks for the consultants to add notes for the work done and any recommendations. These pages can then be formatted and printed to PDF to provide to customer with the fixes and recommendations from the visit. Since all data is synced anyone can pull it up and there is always a backup copy on the cloud.
Pros
  • Note sync
  • Easy collaboration
  • Cloud backup of notes
  • Ability to make templates that are shared
Cons
  • Better layout
  • Make templates easier
  • More sharing options
Likelihood to Recommend
I think it is best suited for collaboration of project ideas. Where it would be less suited would be for someone looking for a replacement for a full fledged collaboration suite.

A must-have if you use MS Office

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
November 07, 2019
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Industrial Automation Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
OneNote
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • Integration with other Microsoft Office products.
  • Syncing between multiple accounts if needed.
  • Syncing between desktop and mobile applications.
  • The ability for multiple users to collaborate on the same notebook.
Cons
  • The software seems a bit heavy and takes up space, which seems normal for Microsoft software.
  • I have to re-enter my login information frequently to keep syncing between different computers and mobile applications.
  • The clip to OneNote tool is a good start but it would be nice to also have a small "sticky notes" type application that ties into OneNote.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you use Microsoft Office products then OneNote should be your go-to tool for note-taking. You can have private notebooks that can be sorted by projects and pages (meaning you can organize a LOT of notes quickly) and you can also share certain pages with other people so you can collaborate together. It also tracks changes between different users, similar to Word, which makes it easier to know who made certain changes and when. If you are not a user of Office then there are other options that may integrate into your work utilities better, but for my company, it's a no brainer.
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