![]() ![]() That poses a privacy and security concern. All notebooks have to be saved to OneDrive, whether you like it or not. OneNote 2016 supports notebooks saved only on your computer with no cloud storage. If you have Windows 8 or 7, you can’t move to the OneNote app unless you also switch to the latest Windows. OneNote for Windows app is for Windows 10 only. Microsoft has deliberately skipped around the big disadvantage of killing OneNote 2016 desktop. If something is too expensive to develop or goes against Microsoft’s corporate needs, then it won’t be done. It’s a chance for users to express their opinion but there’s no guarantee that Microsoft will listen, let alone do anything. Microsoft is offering customers the illusion of democracy when it comes to choosing which remaining OneNote desktop features are moved to the OneNote app.Ĭustomers are invited to visit UserVoice to say what OneNote desktop features they want kept in the app. We copied both lists below from Microsoft. Scroll down the page to see their list of features only available in one product or the other. Microsoft has a web page about the differences between OneNote 2016 and OneNote for Windows 10, though most of the page is a promotion of the latter. Instead, users will be expected to use the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app, OneNote for Windows 10, despite shortcomings in the app version. OneNote 2016 for Windows will be supported with security patches until October 2025 but will get no new features. It’ll be a slow death but it’ll still be dead. OneNote 2016 for Windows, the traditional Windows program is being killed. ![]() He also shared a lot more about the future of OneNote.In an entirely predictable move, Microsoft is dropping the full OneNote desktop program from their lineup. Microsoft says OCR support will be expanded to images from your older notes “in the coming months.” Handwriting is still not available on smartphones, but that feature is also on its way, Megiddo told us. Microsoft claims this works “with any stylus whether you’re left-handed or right-handed.” What’s next If you’re using a stylus, you don’t have to worry about resting your hand on the screen: OneNote for iPad detects your palm and ignores it (to set this up, tap Palm Rejection on the Ribbon, and choose the image that most closely resembles how you normally hold a pen). You can use two fingers to scroll the page, pinch to zoom in on small details, and zoom out to get the big picture. It also now offers an endless digital canvas: You’ll never run out of space - it automatically expands pages as you type or write. The new app offers four classic pen colors (black, blue, green, and red) front-and-center, but you can tap the color wheel to display 20 more. OneNote for iPad reflects the company’s observations from studying and understanding how people use digital pens. Microsoft says it has learned a lot since 2003, when it added inking to OneNote for Windows. From there, write, sketch, or doodle as you please. To pen notes or draw something in the iPad app, tap the new Draw tab on the Ribbon, and select a pen, marker, or highlighter. With the iPad gaining the feature, all tablets that can run OneNote (or as Microsoft puts it, “all of the most popular tablets”) can now handle digital ink. Handwriting support for iPadīefore today, OneNote handwriting and drawing was available on Windows PCs, Windows tablets, and Android tablets. If yours isn’t there, don’t worry Microsoft is “continuously adding support for more” languages. OneNote currently recognizes printed text in 21 languages: Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. The service will automatically process the images when you upload them all you have to do is wait and they will show up in search results after “about five minutes.” To try the feature out, just add a picture that contains text to any OneNote notebook saved on OneDrive. Join today’s leading executives at the Low-Code/No-Code Summit virtually on November 9. ![]()
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