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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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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 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
This product is a great organizer for your tasks, thoughts, and documentation. It works great to share with your coworkers and your other devices and to have them all in one place. Password protect your folders and pages for privacy. You can insert emails, spreadsheets, graphs and charts, along with videos and pictures. It can't create a meeting to your Outlook calendar or Teams meetings.
March 07, 2023

OneNote

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Handwritten notes are helpful during client meetings and the best part is having the program handy without worrying about pen and paper. At the end the notes are easily converted to PDF instead of worrying about scanning.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
OneNote is best for individuals or organizations that want to reduce paper and paper storage such as notebooks and binders. Also good for those that need access to such notes on the go using a mobile phone, tablet, or laptop. May not work well if the notes you have are highly confidential and contain sensitive information.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OneNote helps with department-wide collaboration on projects and meetings. The notebooks sync quickly allowing multiple users to see edits and notes in real-time. The ability to add attachments, photos, and links, all in one place helps with organization. It also works very well as a task list/checklist with the ability to flag tasks that will sync to outlook and provide reminders. There is also the option to add checkboxes, images, and highlighting for visual reminders.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OneNote is well suited for digital notetaking. The software helps keep all of your notes organized in one place so you never have to carry around multiple notepads or writing utensils which take up space and may get lost. OneNote can be backed up on OneDrive which means you will never lose your notes and they are available on all of your devices immediately.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's appropriate where someone is using notes across multiple devices, has a Microsoft office plan, and is just needing it for general notetaking using multi formats. It's not so helpful for someone who doesn't have a Microsoft office plan and needs to deal with multiple notes at the same time or sort by specific measures.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OneNote is the perfect solution for anyone that loves to take notes but doesn't love all of the paper clutter that comes with it. With OneNote, users are able to create and organize notebooks based on topic. This keeps everything in the same place, while also allowing the user to distinguish between different topics.
William (Matt) Wood | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think that OneNote is a solid note taking platform and allows you to access it via multiple different devices/methods.It allows you take structure, share, and tag your notes in a convenient and logical manner. I do not recommend OneNote for more advanced and intuitive features such as full page views, calendars, embeds, advanced integrations, etc..
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.


Jill Liegghio | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my opinion OneNote is a must for anyone who does business. It’s versatile, stable and sustainable. It can keep private information private - like passwords. It can be used for collaborative work - like standard operating procedures. It is fairly easy to use and far superior to pen and paper. When used for meeting notes, it can be flagged with icons that are searchable - like ideas or important items. You can even create Outlook tasks on the fly.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OneNote is well suited for companies that are looking to manage their meetings in an very organized way. OneNote allows companies to keep track of past topics from previous meetings and to keep track of important actions that need to be completed by employees.
Gavin Scott-Miller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OneNote is really great for taking quick notes. It is also great for smaller 'documents' that you will reference frequently. I think that it is less well suited for more full document management. OneNote is NOT Microsoft Word, and OneNote is NOT Microsoft Excel. If you keep this in mind. Then OneNote will be great!
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OneNote is well suited if your purpose is to take notes, share with the team as it allows you to tag people, notes, calendars, etc. It syncs well with your desktop app, so you can access anything anywhere you want. I like how many different formatting options there are, and its syncing ability. I use one note for business meetings for note-taking, and I love how I can upload screenshots or pictures, charts, and graphs, etc.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OneNote has a great UI and is a simple and robust solution to manage files from a centralized location. This can be used for both professional as well as personal purposes for managing the documents, pictures, and other files from any place.
December 05, 2019

OneNote Review

Jeff Henkel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OneNote works for copying web addresses and web articles. If you like to have all your resources in one place and want to organize them by topic or otherwise, OneNote is perfect. I have used OneNote only slightly for entering fresh data and ideas and it seems to work well. I just love that instead of having to copy or print documents or webpages all over the place I can have everything in one place.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is well suited for capturing weekly departmental task lists. For example, each week we create a new page in a shared departmental notebook. In this new page, each department member enters his/her top 3 accomplishments for the week and the top 3 things which the member will attempt to accomplish in the coming week. We then use this page during our Monday morning stand-up meeting and it helps provide an agenda, structure, and discussion points for the meeting.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OneNote is extremely well suited if you have Notes that generally fall into less than, say, 10 categories. That makes it easy to set up 10 different notebooks, or 10 different sections within a single notebook for those topics. Any more than that, and the hierarchical model starts to break down, and that's where tag-based organization becomes stronger. However, if you have a small number of categories, I prefer the hierarchical way that OneNote organizes, making it generally pretty easy to find the content you were looking for.
September 10, 2019

OneNote is the one you need

Lukas Sundahl, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OneNote is well suited when you have data that can be organized by department, job, contract, etc. Each tab in OneNote allows you to quickly add documents and hyperlinks to quickly get users the data they would need instead of navigating a shared network drive. OneNote allows you to quickly create new Notebooks allowing users to move to a new notebook at a specific time interval.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OneNote is appropriate for personal use by employees. It's really useful for individual employees who need help with task management or who take in a lot of information as part of their jobs.

It is not great for collaboration as everyone has different note-taking styles. While OneNote accommodates individual note-taking styles, it is not great for collaboration because of how customizable it is.
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