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BLUF: OneNote for Android NEEDS support for stylus input for drawing and annotating!
Let me first say that on my IBM X200 with digitizer that OneNote is my most used application. I absolutely love the ability to make rough design sketches then annotate them with information. (Parts lists, notes etc) My favorite feature though is the ability of OneNote to actually improve upon the simplicity of pen and paper. You have the freedom to use it as a simple notepad. But where it excels is with the ability to move and resize drawing and text elements. All though college I used it to take notes in class and being able to move a diagram around was a huge benefit.
Android needs the pen input functinality. I can't stress this enough. I'm not talking about handwriting recognition for text input. I'm talking about being able to use the application like a notepad. Initially I bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 to use as my "idea pad". With all of the capability that the table has, the software available for the built in digitizer is abysmal. It does everything well except be a notepad. It's actually pretty horrifying how much trouble to have to go through to even try to use it that way. It was so poor at being a notepad that I returned it. The same is almost true of the Samsung Galaxy Note II I have been using as my phone.
I have found an application published by Asus called Supernote that does a decent job at combining a notepad and drawing application. If the handwrighting recognition feature were enabled it could give OneNote a run for it's money. OneNote still has the advantage with the moving text and graphics around. If it could access the clipboard for the S-pen that would be great too...
The question is, with more and more devices being sold with digitizers and stylus', when is OneNote going to support their input? (Oh, and being able to ignore finger input while the pen in is use is an important aspect of that.)
Thanks for listening,
Michael
A family of Microsoft products that enable users to capture, organize, and reuse notes electronically.
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Looks to be a good day for Android Evernote users. Inking just came out of beta today.
I bought a Dell Windows 8.1 tablet with a stylus hoping to leverage my desktop, laptop and phone (all windows) with one note and the pen feature is not that great. I tried a samsung note 8.0 and cant believe the fluidity of the writing feature and responsiveness of the samsung apps. I love Microsoft products and am completely invested in the product line but not being able to take simple notes as well as the samsung products do makes me seriously consider going to open source and switching solely to galaxy products. The new 12.2 tablet has tons of features and business apps to compete head on with windows 8.1 and the surface tablets in the business arena. I buy the tech toys at my job and would really love to have the note function in a aamsung product running one note, but if future releases arent serious about either improving stylus pergormance or ingesting samsung ink features, I will switch gears. Please fix the one note application. Thank you
MS reps are supposed to take suggestions from here, so hopefully someone is looking into this thread.
sadly no. and no other app has the wide possibilities plus a cloud backup all together. really really need inking on onenote app on android
Is there anything happening on this? I am currently using onenote for work, but it pretty much only works well on windows pcs, for other things I use evernote. But I would like to be able to have everything in onenote, and for that to happen being able to actually take notes with my stylus in one one on my android device would be nice. The current android app is little more than a note-viewer in my opinion. If Microsoft intends to keep onenote competitive with e.g. evernote it needs to work on multiple devices! A reply from Microsoft would be appriciated.