Windows 10 OneNote app sucks.

Anonymous
2018-10-05T06:25:13+00:00

I don't understand why we are being steered toward this app and away from the desktop version which had so many more features.  You can't slap a more vivid shade of purple on a stripped down app and call it OneNote. There's so many note-taking apps out there and none of them comes close to OneNote 2016.  The OneNote app is definitely creating alot of space for those apps to grab a larger share of the market.   

Scrolling through several pages of Word printouts is painful on my computer; slow and choppy.  Not to mention, I can't just drop a Word file onto the OneNote page and have it printout.  I now must convert it to a PDF, insert it, then make it printout from there.  

How about the Outlook functions which are now gone?

I'm not going to go on and on about what's wrong with the app since so many before have done that already.  I'm just adding my voice to those who know that the OneNote app is an inferior product and it's important for Microsoft to hear it.    

The OneNote app should offer everything that the desktop version offered, and I would assume even more. Microsoft, you are slowly taking away the things that keep me from buying a Mac.  This isn't an upgradewhen you give us something with less features than its predecessor.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-11-22T23:02:52+00:00

    I totally agree with Big Mike.   The things that the App doesn't do is waaaayyy too long to list and I used almost all of them on a regular basis.

    I am continually amazed at the decision making within Microsoft.  Perhaps Microsoft didn't believe that there were enough users to justify continuing with the full OneNote version.  Who knows, but I believe that many people were starting to use OneNote desktop version because of how easy it was to use with Surface Pro and other touchscreen devices.  So after finally providing the best tools to take advantage of this brilliant piece of software and after people start using it they decide to take it away.  So disappointing.  Although this seems to be the way with Microsoft... 

    • Microsoft Phone - Loved it now it is gone
    • Microsoft watch - Great watch
    • Microsoft Groove - Go get Spotify you will like it better than us
    • So on and so forth

    If anyone at Microsoft would like some free advice on how to better serve your best, longest, loyal customers please feel free to reach out to me.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-01-29T19:13:22+00:00

    I completely agree, Big Mike 311 - 

    OneNote "App" is absolutely horrible.  It is not at all easy to use, features that are OH SO IMPORTANT (like Integration with Outlook and macro capabilities to name a couple) are non-existent.

    Come on Microsoft, this is ridiculous.  

    Honestly now looking at other options again.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-01-29T19:24:12+00:00

    Went back to Evernote. Couldn't be happier. After dealing with OneNote "app" and sync issues and slow slow slllooowww responses etc. I don't mind at all to pay for Evernote.

    You get what you pay for I guess.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-04-05T22:02:14+00:00

    Microsoft, you really screwed up OneNote.  OneNote 2013 and 2016 were awesome.  Loaded with awesomely rich features that made it incredibly powerful tool to get date of all types into and then back out of it in various forms.  The latest piece of junk OneNote is so limited  that is mirrors the crappy free app that Microsoft offers for free as a phone app.  The OneNote app is okay in a pinch if you just need to print out of it or upload something into it and view it but sucks otherwise.

    Problem - You are charging me $100.00 a year for office and are offering a program that has less features than the original OneNote that came out back in 2003 or there about.  That is like giving up your 2019 state of the art computer for an old relic from the mid 1990s running Windows 95.  Oh yes please, give me dial up internet service while your at it.  Does the acronym AOL ring any bells?  Put another way OneNote 2016 is a Lexus and OneNote in Windows 10 or included in the latest release of Office 365 is a rusted out Ford Pinto that burns as much oil as it leaks.

    Thank God that you can download OneNote 2016 still and set it as a default app.  However, Microsoft openly admits that they are no longer updating OneNote 2016.

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-01-29T20:05:45+00:00

    It isn't as frustrating now that the are providing OneNote 2016 for free. Thank you to everyone who complained about the new Office lacking OneNote for that.

    Still though, youd think they'd fix the app that they wamt everyone to use before trying to force them to use it.

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