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Read on for a couple of screenshots and the ugly, bad, good, great, and awesome aspects of Microsoft OneNote! Screenshots It was fun to play with OneNote and it also confirmed that Obsidian is still the right choice for me. If you are OK to go all-in with Microsoft, then this app will be fine. It can be dragged around to right or left of your screen. With so many users and such a big company behind it, there is a lot of material online to get help.Ī cool feature that I haven't seen on any other note app is OneNote Badge which puts an overlay on Android so you can add a note quickly from anywhere. You can export to PDF, work offline, attach images, record audio, format text to your heart's content, and link notebooks, sections, and pages. On the upside, OneNote is very fast, has many features, works on every platform, and synchronizes notes across all devices, for 'free'. OneNote does not support Markdown and doesn't support tags in or on a note. This is a sub-par experience on a smartphone unless you have something like the Z Fold which, yes, I want for Christmas! OneNote is definitely not local first and it requires a Microsoft account but that is 'free' for consumers if you live in their cloud or if your company subscribes to Microsoft 365. On the downside, the app was not easy to use and I had to pan and zoom to see the page contents. Theoretically, that's cool, but practically not so much. Pages are the full-blown notes kind of like documents but with an 'infinite canvas' and you can draw anywhere.

Basically, Sticky Notes are what you'd expect in a mobile app: easy to use and shows images. OneNote actually has two types of notes which I found very confusing: Sticky Notes and regular 'Pages' with no clear explanation of the difference. Overall, I was underwhelmed by the OneNote Android app.

I assume a tablet like the Samsung S-series will be a much better experience.

This review solely focuses on using OneNote on an Android phone, specifically my Samsung S20 5G. It has been around for decades and downloaded on Google Play 500,000,000+ times, that's half a billion times! OneNote is part of Microsoft's Office 365 product suite so you'll get integrations with their products out-of-the-box. Microsoft OneNote is one of the Goliaths and it's definitely your grandfather's tool.

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