Windows 10 OneNote app sucks.

"stripped this great tool, slapped the sappy 2019 look and then tried to pan this off as the future improved."

Nicely done! Indeed, it is an abomination in software design -- and there is no measure for my disgust in Microsoft's stupidity on this matter. Have you ever seen this -- this guy was a OneNote product manager and wrote this about Windows 10 OneNote. It's just absolute BS and has no bearing on reality in any dimension.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Blog/The-best-version-of-OneNote-on-Windows/ba-p/183974

I too have been a long time OneNote user since it's inception. The tool got better and better with each version release and then, BOOM...MS stripped this great tool, slapped the sappy 2019 look and then tried to pan this off as the future improved.

The search function sucks. You do a search, click back into the search field and the text won't clear when I type my next word. I have to do a special workaround...a WORKAROUND FOR THE SEARCH BOX TO WORK LIKE IT DOES IN ONENOTE 2016!

Please fix this issue Microsoft. This release of OneNote does not suffice.

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!!!

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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“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

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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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

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.