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Nothing has come close to Microsoft's One Note for me when it comes to note taking apps. The combination of One Note and an iPad with the pencil is particularly

Nothing has come close to Microsoft's One Note for me when it comes to note taking apps. The combination of One Note and an iPad with the pencil is particularly powerful.

Something1234 7y ago
I could never pick up the fundamentals concept of OneNote. What's the deal with it?
- vmurthy 7y ago
  Depends on how you use it. 1. OCD level organisation required? One note has got you covered. Books and tabs and what not. With tagging. 2. Want to toss everything in and forget about it? OneNote does the job. Windows and iOS supported. Plays well with my handwriting. Rest of platforms haven’t checked.
  - reitanqild 7y ago
    > With tagging. Actually, tagging is one of the things OneNote should do better. It doesn't support hashtags out of the box so tagging means selecting from a list of predefined tags. One of the things that really annoys me about OneNote (I'm a big fan of it though.)
    - BlueDingo 7y ago
      Yes! When I first got into OneNote (2007 version?) I put a lot of effort into using and customising tags but quickly hit limits. Even if other features never updated, an overhaul of the tags system could drastically increase OneNote's usability. It always felt odd that the same app that reliably converted my handwriting to text a decade ago had a small, fixed number of tag slots and no ability to import icons. I remember thinking "well surely this was a v1, they'll improve it in later versions" but no, not even the tiniest change.
      - reitanqild 7y ago
        I'll add two more things: - internal links doesn't work on mobile. - local shared folder mode doesn't work in later versions. This was brilliant for places that has restrictions on what they can upload to the cloud. OneNote could often replace internal wikis for smaller companies (in some areas it was even better) but now that becomes less viable as OneNote for desktop gets older.
    - reificator 7y ago
      > It doesn't support hashtags out of the box so tagging means selecting from a list of predefined tags. It does support custom tags. I don't think there's a way to add custom icons, but custom tags are definitely a thing.
angleofrepose 7y ago
I made my top level comment with reference to OneNote before seeing your comment. Why is it that this reminds you of OneNote? I agree, and Ink&Switch certainly show that tablet and stylus are a quick moving interaction model, what more do you want from that interaction scheme? Does OneNote do it for you or do you want more? I pointed out above that I think OneNote "is a modern take on paper" but Capstone "is a modern take on screens" and I mean that OneNote for all it's brilliance only expands the whiteboard to paper. Capstone has worked in so many more powerful abilities to it's user, it takes full advantage of the fact that it lives on a screen on the computer. They wrote a great paper on end user programming in this tablet environment. That doesn't seem to even be an experiment that could exist in OneNote.

Nothing has come close to Microsoft's One Note for me when it comes to note taking apps. The combination of One Note and an iPad with the pencil is particularly powerful.

Something1234 7y ago

I could never pick up the fundamentals concept of OneNote. What's the deal with it?

vmurthy 7y ago
Depends on how you use it. 1. OCD level organisation required? One note has got you covered. Books and tabs and what not. With tagging. 2. Want to toss everything in and forget about it? OneNote does the job. Windows and iOS supported. Plays well with my handwriting. Rest of platforms haven’t checked.
- reitanqild 7y ago
  > With tagging. Actually, tagging is one of the things OneNote should do better. It doesn't support hashtags out of the box so tagging means selecting from a list of predefined tags. One of the things that really annoys me about OneNote (I'm a big fan of it though.)
  - BlueDingo 7y ago
    Yes! When I first got into OneNote (2007 version?) I put a lot of effort into using and customising tags but quickly hit limits. Even if other features never updated, an overhaul of the tags system could drastically increase OneNote's usability. It always felt odd that the same app that reliably converted my handwriting to text a decade ago had a small, fixed number of tag slots and no ability to import icons. I remember thinking "well surely this was a v1, they'll improve it in later versions" but no, not even the tiniest change.
    - reitanqild 7y ago
      I'll add two more things: - internal links doesn't work on mobile. - local shared folder mode doesn't work in later versions. This was brilliant for places that has restrictions on what they can upload to the cloud. OneNote could often replace internal wikis for smaller companies (in some areas it was even better) but now that becomes less viable as OneNote for desktop gets older.
  - reificator 7y ago
    > It doesn't support hashtags out of the box so tagging means selecting from a list of predefined tags. It does support custom tags. I don't think there's a way to add custom icons, but custom tags are definitely a thing.

angleofrepose 7y ago

I made my top level comment with reference to OneNote before seeing your comment. Why is it that this reminds you of OneNote? I agree, and Ink&Switch certainly show that tablet and stylus are a quick moving interaction model, what more do you want from that interaction scheme? Does OneNote do it for you or do you want more? I pointed out above that I think OneNote "is a modern take on paper" but Capstone "is a modern take on screens" and I mean that OneNote for all it's brilliance only expands the whiteboard to paper. Capstone has worked in so many more powerful abilities to it's user, it takes full advantage of the fact that it lives on a screen on the computer. They wrote a great paper on end user programming in this tablet environment. That doesn't seem to even be an experiment that could exist in OneNote.