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
    2019-03-15T17:25:36+00:00

    As far as I can understand your post, it means that MS has no product strategy for desktop users. They only care about mobile users... making a distinction between mobile and desktop users amounts to the same problem of making a distinction between online and offline shoppers. I am using a Surface Pro as my only device... at home or on the move... Am I a mobile user or a desktop user?

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-03-15T16:08:34+00:00

    from my understanding of the current culture at MS regarding code as it relates to desktop users is that coders basically do whatever they want to, and code whatever they want to.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-02-11T02:59:37+00:00

    The search function does not work at all.. ridiculous MS... When I sync a notebook it has no indication that it has it is synchronizing neither that it has already synchronized...

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  4. 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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  5. 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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