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.

HA! First off, thanks for the laugh -- I enjoyed that!! :o) Secondly, sorry about that -- though I'm sure you get the idea behind the reference. ;o) Thirdly, thanks for your thoughts on "toddler-level toy" -- but I can only take credit for the "toy" part. In one of these OneNote posts (this exchange or another) -- I saw someone use "toddler-level" and thought it was BRILLIANT, so I thanked him and I've been borrowing it ever since. ;o)

Speaking of borrowing, I doubt that there's anyone who's been hammering Microsoft on this to the degree that I have -- and I'm nowhere near done. If I had the time, I'd go out to Redmond and protest outside their headquarters. ;o) But since I can't do that, I've got another plan in mind. I hate Twitter but I have used it here and there -- including sending Tweets to Microsoft people (with screenshots from these posts). To make that process more efficient, I'm going to take screenshots of every single post on this issue (and there are several threads -- so I've got plenty of work from). And I'm going to develop and application that loops through the screenshots files and randomly sends Tweets to as many Microsoft employees that I can find. It's not going to be every day or anything -- just here and there to keep reminding them of this madness. And besides, even if it doesn't make any difference (and it's highly unlikely that it will), it's good development practice for stuff I'm studying. So I can't lose. ;o)

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts and outrage at this. :o)

P.S. This is what started it all for me -- when I did a search last year for the exact words of "I hate Windows 10 OneNote" -- and was DELIGHTED to find that some lady started a post with exactly those words. :o)

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice\_onenote-mso\_win10-mso\_365hp/i-hate-windows-10-onenote/6f0d508d-7ff0-43e4-b1ed-f730fa78f41d?messageId=ff27c674-8c10-44e2-b69c-647b48a6acb4&page=1

Hey! I'm an accountant, don't lump me in w/the idiots that designed the new app! I'm much smarter than that! =)

Love the "Windows 10 toddler-level", it really is a toddler version of One Note, so ridiculous. 

Hey! I'm an accountant, don't lump me in w/the idiots that designed the new app! I'm much smarter than that! =)

Love the "Windows 10 toddler-level", it really is a toddler version of One Note, so ridiculous.

I appreciate the info but I've been hammering Microsoft on this topic for months (in multiple channels -- including Tweets to OneNote product managers, the CEO, and Bill Gates to boot -- which all get totally ignored, naturally).

You're right -- they don't pay much attention to this forum, which is precisely to the point of all this: What a ridiculous thing to have people providing feedback that goes nowhere -- but how convenient to make them think that it might. Just how many channels and posts is it gonna take for them to wake up and recognize the glaringly obvious: That no serious user of OneNote wants anything to do with their Windows 10 toddler-level toy -- an abomination in software design.

I didn't think Microsoft could get any dumber than eliminating the Start button. Every person involved in that fiasco should have been fired. But now they go and peddle this POS UWP OneNote and try to pass it off like they're doing us a favor (which I find egregiously insulting).

I cannot imagine that any of this would have happened when Bill Gates was running the show. It seems to me like accountants are running Microsoft these days.

Seriously - the requirement that OneNote files MUST be int he cloud is just awful. Let ME be the one that decides that. And while you're at it, why don't you let me just move my data files to the folders I want them in. I made the mistake of "sharing" my old notebook with my corporate account on my work laptop, and now I can't move it back to my personal PC. Nightmare!!!

that is a comment that MUST be submitted to MS as a feedback. They have to have their noses rubbed in how badly OneNote Windows S U C K S the big one.  And how much users in the real world HATE IT!

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Seriously - the requirement that OneNote files MUST be int he cloud is just awful. Let ME be the one that decides that. And while you're at it, why don't you let me just move my data files to the folders I want them in. I made the mistake of "sharing" my old notebook with my corporate account on my work laptop, and now I can't move it back to my personal PC. Nightmare!!!

that is a comment that MUST be submitted to MS as a feedback. They have to have their noses rubbed in how badly OneNote Windows S U C K S the big one.  And how much users in the real world HATE IT!

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Send Feedback to MS Developers ****Launch Feedback Hub via  <WIN><F>

“Official” MS does not pay much attention to this forum. However, you now can send your complaints and feature requests directly to MS developers and managers using one of the 4 possible “Feedback” mechanisms described in this link:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install/send-feedback-to-ms-developers/506e7654-8ced-405b-911e-c58d8f253069

Please post a share link to your feedback, back here, so other people who find your question here will be able to vote for your feedback and add their comments to it.

Collection of MS “UserVoice” web links:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows\_10-desktop/ms-suggestion-box-sites-at-usdervoicecom/7397119c-6d48-49e6-8d94-7bd0a50d214f