

Microsoft OneNote Software
About Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft OneNote Pricing
Microsoft OneNote is bought as part of the Microsoft 365 suite.
Starting price:
$6.99 per month
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OVERALL RATING
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Destiny
Company size: 51 - 200 employees
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: GetApp
August 2021
Keeping track of notes for your 50 weekly meetings is easier with OneNote

Nicholas
Verified reviewer
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Education Management
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
May 2022
OneNote: a great foundation for collaboration
OneNote has become central to our documentation at our organization. Especially after the integration between OneNote and Office 365 Groups and then Teams, the addition of the Collaboration Space and Documentation Library has helped us create central repositories that can be worked on simultaneously and frequently. Administration can collaborate and share materials and use the private spaces for groups members to take their own notes or have individual content distributed to them to work on or reflect upon. I love this product and since growing with it in my career have also expanded to use it in my personal life for notetaking, organization, and planning.
Pros
The notebook structure was very appealing to me when I first started using OneNote. Once I unbound myself from the concept of creating everything to translate to a printed letter size piece of paper it really took off. You can create your notebook and its contents to directly translate to what if it had to be printed. But you can also transform it to a fully interactive collection. With links to various other locations in the same notebook, other locations and materials on the internet, and even embedding videos and other documents directly in the pages of the notebook you can make the reach of the content presented to extend beyond the boundries of the document itself.
Cons
The different versions - When OneNote transitioned to the web, it was during the focus on the Metro UI in Windows 8 and it suffered for it. The simplicity of what the web version could do was crippled by the ability of the internet browsers at the time. Over time it has increased in parity between the desktop version and the web, however - the Metro UI designed app has lingered and its design has stayed truer to the web version than the original desktop version. It is getting harder to find the desktop version that has content central and navigation to the left, top, and right sides. The web, mobile app, and "for windows 10" versions make navigation subjectively more complex when you have extensively robust notebooks.
Reasons for choosing Microsoft OneNote
It proved to be the most logical and user friendly to translate hierarchical structures of documentation, collaboration, and communication the way we needed to get the most buy in and participation from the community.
Anonymous
Company size: 1 employee
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
April 2022
Worklife organization = peace of mind
Migrated from Evernote a few years ago and never looked back. Keeps my work life organized and in sync across all my devices!
Pros
It's free and offers all the tools to keep your work life organized. I use it daily to organize my tasks (great and easy to use ToDo list features!), to keep and organize notes from meetings and to write memos or analysis of tasks I perform. The Notebook>Tabs>Notes organization is simple and effective.
Cons
The notebook>tabs>notes interface could be rethinked. As it is, it is functional, no doubt, but I can help feeling that some other views of this greater organization of your notes could be improved. It would also be great if double clicking to tray icon opened the app instead of the quick note shortcut (it can be changed in the options thou). Small grievances.
Reasons for switching to Microsoft OneNote
Evernote did a big bait and switch with plans on users. Didn't like it, got out.

Jeanette
Verified reviewer
Company size: 1 employee
Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness
Time used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
March 2022
Microsoft One Note is not for me
Terrible. When OneNote worked, it was a useful tool. Unfortunately, I couldn't afford not to be able to find my content or have it continue to be deleted or unsaved.
Pros
I like the concept of being able to digitally store my thoughts and creative ideas in one area instead of having a bunch of paper or post-it notes.
Cons
I kept losing my information. I am meticulous about saving anything I create. I have no ideas where several of my creative ideas or projects went because OneNote lost my stuff!
Reasons for choosing Microsoft OneNote
I did not choose OneNote and ultimately left OneNote to use Trello and Google products instead. OneNote was annoying because it kept deleting or losing my content. Not reliable for me!

Nitin
Verified reviewer
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
March 2022
Best note taking and beautiful featured windows software for daily use
Onenote is best tool for taking on going session notes while working on other works so basically it helps you multitasking and tremendously increase your strength. If you're a blogger and want to work in a offline environment then this is the best app to continue with.
Pros
When I encountered onenote first time I have been using it for just taking rough notes for my blog but recently I have encountered about their screen recording feature. Its shortcuts are really helpful without opening onenote every time one can take screenshot, copy it to clipboard and use anywhere. Also I can upload any pdf in a text content, I can also add media file inside a doc file and send it over network. Even making to do lists, sticky notes and other daily tasks can be done at once in this tool.
Cons
It is really helpful tool but learning things make it complex further and also I cannot find any solution to use it in mobile. Lack of personalization is also one of the lagging feature that need to be addressed in further updates.
Reasons for choosing Microsoft OneNote
It is offline and you don't need internet connection to store and write any tasks. Other alternatives need internet connection as they store into cloud and make you use on any system without losing your content. OneNote allows you to add any type of file inside a text file, others don't have that much capability.