Windows 10 OneNote app sucks.

I too enjoyed the "toddler level toy" characterization of OneNote.

OneNote UWP is completely in line with the carpy design of most UWP <cr>applets. Look at what they have been doing with the "settings" dialogs that "replaced" the control panel apps. Every one is dumbed down. But not to the amazing bad extent that OneNote has been degraded in this putative "upgrade".

Personally I suspect that someone at MS won a bet on how bad an app they can get away with shipping. I too hope that a bunch of people lost their jobs for doing this. But I doubt it.

You can still install OneNote 2016 for free from Microsoft's site (they are purposely not advertising that so they can steer people into this nightmare on Windows 10). Here is the link:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/install-or-reinstall-onenote-2016-for-windows-c08068d8-b517-4464-9ff2-132cb9c45c08

Once you install it, your OneNote links on Outlook menus will point to the real OneNote. I work with OneNote 2016 every day (and have Office 365 installed) -- and I never have to interact with the Windows 10 version (thank God) ;o)

Lemme know if you have any questions.

I agree with Big Mike 311.  I first came into the Office 365 world at Office 2016.  So my first exposure to OneNote was the 2016 desktop version.  I'm mainly an Access and Excel user but I thought it was about time I found out how OneNote worked.  No sooner had I started learning OneNote 2016 desktop that the OneNote app arrived.  As a lot of people are saying, this app is soooo featureless, it is a backward step.  I stick with it because of my commitment to Excel, Access and Word but this app is very lightweight.

At the moment I have given up on using OneNote at all because the OneNote links on say Outlook menus all default to the ON app, is there any way of changing that to OneNote 2016?

What a useless, piece of garbage OneNote is. Notebook merge feature: nonexistent. Notebook delete: pointless because it creates "ghost" deleted notebooks that clutter up your list of living notebooks.

First of all, I imported my notes from Evernote. I had to export from Evernote and then separately import into OneNote's (toddler-level, feature-sparse) Windows 10 app because the app's importer didn't work. Whatever.

But now I'm stuck with a separate Evernote import notebook because Microsoft has apparently decided that I shouldn't be able to merge notebooks. Seriously, ****, can't merge notebooks?

And not only do I have more notebooks than I want,but every time I go online to use OneNote in the browser have to get confused by seeing 2 or 3 other "ghost" notebooks that I created and then deleted during the period when I was first getting set up with and playing around with the features of OneNote. Apparently I have to live with the visual clutter of "deleted" notebooks every time I try to look at a list of the notebooks I actually use. Because... reasons?

I may go back to Evernote, whose search function on Android is totally broken. That's how bad OneNote is: I may go back to using software that I can't even use on my phone.

Isn't that just the 2016 version though? As in, no new development or improvements? Maybe that will be a good thing in the end, though...

Agree 100 %.  I have been using One Note since its inception.  There is a lot of personal content I NEVER want to store in the cloud.  When I recently updated to Office 365 Personal it installed the Windows 10 version of One Note.  I could no longer open or use my stored One Note folders without uploading them to One Note.  NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!  When will Microsoft understand people do not trust putting personal information in the cloud.  

MICROSOFT please listen to me.  Keep the desktop One Note alive and updated for those of us who do not store anything personal in the cloud and never will.  I have a personal server where I store all my content.  I do not need One Drive nor will I ever use it.  Millennials may flock to your new way of managing content but there are millions of users out there who still store their files locally where they are 100% safe from theft.

Please fix this.