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OneNote import utility for Evernote released

Microsoft is making available a new free importer tool designed to bring users’ Evernote notes into OneNote. Evernote is a popular product that competes with OneNote and migrating data has been an issue for users.

The OneNote Importer tool is available from Microsoft: Here                 OneNote

OneNote Updated to Support iOS 9

OneNote adds support for iOS 9 and iPad Pro with multitasking, Spotlight search and Apple Pencil with the latest release as well as Split View, you can have OneNote open side-by-side with another app, making it easier than ever to take notes while running an app.

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OneNote for iOS 9 can be downloaded from the App Store

OneNote for iPad updated

OneNote for iPad been updated with the ability to search your handwritten notes for text, just as you can already search for text in actual text and in images. Handwriting recognition works in 25 languages, with more coming in the future.

OneNote HandwritingIn addition to this Microsoft has updated the menu to be more familiar to the OneNote for iPhone experience, you can now easily swipe from the left to view the drawer where you can view all your notebooks, open or create notebooks, reorder and close notebooks. Additionally, you can now more easily access and manage your accounts and app settings in this all-new user interface. This makes all the ideas and information you keep in OneNote more convenient to recall.

OneNote for iPhone and Mac updated

Microsoft has delivered an updater to OneNote on both iPhone and Mac. OneNote for iPhone includes note previews and notebooks reordering. OneNote for Mac provides enhanced notebook sharing functionality.

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On iPhone, the note list in each section now displays a note preview so you can visually identify the note you’re looking for more quickly.

In addition to note previews another enhancement to notebook organization. If you have several notebooks on your iPhone and want to list them in a different order, you can now drag and drop to easily re-order your notebooks.

OneNote for Mac–notebook sharing enhancements

With this update it is even easier to share notebooks by providing you a way to invite your contacts to collaborate on notebooks, selecting whether they can view only or edit the notebooks and remove sharing access when needed. These improvements work with notebooks you created on OneDrive and OneDrive for Business.

Additionally, OneNote for iPhone, iPad and Mac all received bug fix updates this week as well.

OneNote Clipper 2.0 with improved interface and location picker

OneNote-Clipper-2.0OneNote Clipper is a browser toolbar button that lets you clip anything you see on the web: articles, images etc. and save them to OneNote. Once the toolbar / shortcut has been saved to your favorites bad you can click it to activate OneNote Clipper and select what you wish to save and save it to your choice of notebooks.

New in version 2.0 is a redesigned interface which takes up less space than the previous version and is easier to use.

The location picker now allows you save specific locations of a page, allowing you to only save what you need.

OneNote 2.0 also now remembers the last notebook you were in, so you no longer have to browse if you plan to save multiple pages  or clips to the same notebook.

Source: OneNote Clipper

Source: OneNote Download

Handwriting comes to OneNote for iPad

While OneNote is available on virtually every platform only some tablets have had one of its best features: Handwriting. Microsoft has now released an update to the iPad version to allow handwriting and drawing within your notes.

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Considering the iPad is among the most popular tablets this feature is overdue.

Source: Office Blogs

Upgrade to OneNote 2013 on your PC

Many companies and users are still on Office 2010 with no immediate  plans to go to Office 2013. This means they are missing out on the improvements made to OneNote 2013. Until recently the free download version of OneNote 2013 was missing several key features. This has been resolved and we are not suggesting users of Office 2010 migrate to OneNote 2013 which can be donwloaded below. Some of the unlocked features include:

  • Password protected sections—Add a password to protect sensitive information.
  • Page history—Easily see or go back to prior versions of a page.
  • Audio and video recording—Take notes while recording, and easily jump to the relevant section later.
  • Audio search—Search for a word in a voice or video recording.
  • Embedded files—Insert Office documents or other files directly in your notebook.

Source: OneNote Download