
Or get it with Office 365: Microsoft OneNote fills the note-taking spot in the Microsoft Office suite. In fact, you don't need to buy OneNote to use it, as Microsoft lets you download and use its note-taking app for free. It's free: Although OneNote is part of the Office suite, you don't need to buy Office to use it. To find something across your documents, a search field lets you look for specific words or phrases. You can rearrange pages and sections, combine multiple sections into a section group, and create subpages with content indented. You can add pages to a notebook and create sections if you want to organize its contents. Helpfully organized: OneNote arranges your ideas into notebooks. OneNote also comes with a Shapes gallery to add shapes to your notes. Make drawings: OneNote comes with pen, marker, eraser, and highlighter tools, letting you create drawings in your notes. Style your notes: Apply text styles to notes from the Styles gallery and change fonts.

While the two note-taking services share much in common, OneNote offers unlimited monthly uploads, unlike Evernote, which caps free uploads at 60MB a month. Import notes from Evernote: With Microsoft's Evernote importer tool, you can move everything from Evernote over to OneNote. And you can add Word and Excel files to a page and edit the documents from OneNote. You can also insert images, build tables, and even create mathematical equations, with fractions, exponentials, and other math structures. ProsĬollect your thoughts and other things: You can, of course, type your notes into OneNote, which can also keep links and file attachments.


Microsoft's OneNote digital notebook lets you create, store, and share notes, drawings, and files across all your devices, from your Windows or MacOS desktop to an iOS and Android mobile device.
