I've used OneNote for years, but I definitely agree with the parent that it could be better. Here's a brief summary: Good stuff: 1) Search is fairly fast and

I've used OneNote for years, but I definitely agree with the parent that it could be better. Here's a brief summary: Good stuff: 1) Search is fairly fast and comprehensive 2) Supports lots of content types easily with paste, including images and other Office app content 3) Shortcuts for Table manipulation, todo checkbox items, and other icons are really helpful. I wish every editor had these. 4) Handwriting is well supported. Bad stuff: 1) The organizational structure is overly complex and confusing as it has three categories of structure: Notebooks (top pulldown), Sections (tabs on top), and Pages (tabs on right). This makes it hard to know which to use and it's visually overwhelming. Wikipedia is a good example of something better as its structure is much more uniform: everything is a page and all navigation uses links. 2) Synchronizing is very slow compared to google docs. This makes it fine for simple scenarios where people edit alone and share after it's mostly written, but makes it hard to work together on a document (no multiple cursors on the page) My guess is (1) and (2) are an artifact of Notebooks being files instead of "in the cloud". This likely forces the organizational structure OneNote has, and slows down synchronizing because it's harder to sync at the file level rather than the text-run level. 3) Shared freeform content like this gets out of date fast. This should be built into the product so we can see which pages are important to the organization. Most people don't delete pages ever, so some way of showing which pages matter and which should be disregarded would be very helpful.