Daniel Escapa's OneNote Blog

This is interesting. Microsoft’s Mac Unit is hearing from users that they’d like to see OneNote

Spreading OneNote's reach would be a good thing! Its a great program; discovering it was the second reason (after TabletPC devices themselves; I have a Motion LE1600) that led me back to Windows after 13 years on the Mac. I'm in the middle of the transition so emotionally I'm still very fragile, rationally I'm manic. I keep wondering if this is all part of the characteristic mid-life crisis, only I'm not divorcing, buying a sports car, and dating girls half my age...

Anyway!  Other than supporting any effort to port OneNote to Mac, I wanted to point out a small thing that defies explanation in my usage of OneNote 2007.  When using the 'Send to OneNote' PowerToy in Internet Explorer 7, why does all the text lose its line feeds/carriage returns (not sure which)? Paragraphs run together and make a mess of imported text. The same thing happened in OneNote 2003. Is there a reason this behaviour continues, some technical reason why it cannot be corrected/improved?

I hope you don't mind, but I plan to post this to Nadyne's comments too - perhaps someone will eventually come across it and respond with some useful information - I've searched high and low but its as if no one else has noted the behaviour. Its very likely, given my experience, due to me being an idiot for having missed an important tick box in OneNote's Preferences, so my apologies if this turns out to be the case.

Many thanks for such a great blog, Dan!  You rock!  Thanks to the writing of yourself and Chris Pratley, my mid-life crisis has gone much more smoothly than I could have hoped!

-peter

DEFINITELY would love to get OneNote on the mac... recently made the move to a MacBook Pro/MacIntel and boy oh boy, the note taking stuff sure leaves a bit to be desired when compared to OneNote.

Sure miss it...

Yes, absolutely.  There are other note-taking programs that are natively available for the Mac.  However, none of them come close to being able to offer what OneNote has been able to bring to the table.  I look forward to the day when OneNote will be available for the Mac.

Michael.

I would give anything to have OneNote and Outlook integration on a Mac.  I am thinking about leaving PC for a Mac, but am resisting just because of One Note.  A true Mac tablet would be a dream come true.  I lecture off tablets, but use Onenote on my 10" Fujitsu notebook daily.  I may just go to the Mac and run it with Prallels for Outlook and One Note.  I suppose that sounds crazy, but the display of the Mac Pro is so amazing for photo work, It's worth using it as an XP machine full time.

I saw this blog post and it caught my eye: why do you want OneNote on your Mac?   I own a Mac and I LOVE OneNote so for me having OneNote on my Mac would just rock my world.  Anyhow please go over and tell Nadyne how you would want OneNote

Yes - having the ability to get my PC onenote notes on my new iPhone would be awesome.  That's the only thing I miss from my old MS smartphone.  

Anyone know of a solution for that?

I desperately want OneNote on my new Mac. That was a main thing that kept me from ever buying a mac. I use Onenote on Vmware Fusion but having full Mac integration would be far superior. There is nothing remotely like it for Mac... I have just spent a week looking for anything that comes close. (Skitch is handy but a fraction of the usefulness of Onenote.

I loved the Onenote-Outlook task integration and used it frequently to send emails to Onenote, apply tasks to them, then send tasks back to Outlook. I am really, really missing that on the Mac side. Task managers are all anemic by comparison. Best i've found for Mac is "Things" but it can't hold a candle to Onenote + Outlook.

Yes, OneNote on iPhone would be great. I use OneNote a lot, would be nice to have everything on the iPhone too.

I'm a journalist and would die and go to heaven with one-note for my mac. Visio would be good too, but one-note is the app that I REALLY miss. I've tried pearnote, voodoo pad, and a whole lot of other one-note like apps. Either it had audio/video playback in sync with my typing but not paste of graphics/webpages....or it had the paste but not playback.

THE MOST useful feature is being able to "send to" one-note from a web browser and get not only an image but also the URL of the source.

/brian chee

One note is perhaps the only app I miss on windows, after running a software company for 10 years I switched to a mac last year and have otherwise not looked back (ok finder is a bit rubbish for a start but...)

Additionally I know the OS is your bread and butter but iphones are the worlds toy of choice at the moment and some form of iphone app to sync to one note mac would be a also be massive winner and a further revenue stream.

Just got an iphone and am disappointed that I can't sync my OneNotes.

I JUST MADE THE CONVERSION TO MAC AND OFFICE FOR MAC. THE ONLY THING I MISS IS ONE NOTE. IT'S REALLY HELPFUL WAY TO ORGANIZE A PROJECT OR A PUBLICATION.

I've been using OneNote for a while on my Vista laptop and think its by far the best note-taking app out there! However I'm planning to change to a Mac soon and have been looking for anything.. ANYTHING.. that can come close to OneNote on the Mac. As it turns out I have found one little app called Evernote. I've only started using it recently so i'm not quite ready to give a review yet, but from what I've seen it might just be able to bridge he gap until OneNote makes it onto the Mac. I especially like that it integrates between all platforms, including iPhone, Blackberry and Windows Mobile. so you can add notes from anywhere and it'll be integrated automatically to your main database.

Its a nifty application. Check it out at www.evernote.com

How long must we wait for Mac to push for a OneNote application. I run my MacBook Pro using VM (not mac OX) just to use OneNote.

Yes please. I want to stay with Mac at home. I use OneNote at work, but because of the app I am thinking of switch to a PC at home as well.

I am a medical student in Iowa and our school provides us with a tablet PC (Dell XT) as part of our tuition. While I am a MAC user and have two of them, I have become very fond of the OneNote microsoft program for taking notes and organizing them. OneNote is amazing for storing a HUGE volume of class notes, including imported ppt slides, and board exam studying tools all in one application that is always open and you can simply click between sections/pages and notebooks to go between classes etc. I imagine students in all fields, as well as undergraduates, would find this program incredibly useful as well. But, let's get it on the Mac OS platform!!!!!! And while we are at it, how about an Apple Tablet!!!???

Well, better later than never. iPhone solution for OneNote is available! Go to http://www.mobilenoter.com.

This thing is currently free, it syncs notebooks to and from OneNote on a PC and lets do a lot of other thing.