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Microsoft OneNote
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial release15 June 2010; 14 years ago (2010-06-15)
Stable release
2010 SP1 (14.0.6112.5000) / 16 October 2011; 12 years ago (2011-10-16)
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, Android,[1] iOS,[2][3] Symbian, Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7
TypeNotetaking
LicenseProprietary software
Websiteoffice.microsoft.com/onenote/

Microsoft OneNote (formerly called Microsoft Office OneNote) is a computer program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It can gather users' notes (handwritten or typed), drawings, screen clippings, and audio commentaries and share them with other users of Microsoft OneNote over the Internet. The desktop version of OneNote is available for the Microsoft Windows platform.

Overview

In Microsoft OneNote, users can enter typed text via keyboard, create tables, and insert pictures. However, unlike a word processor, users can simply write anywhere on a virtually unbounded document window by just clicking there. Also, users do not need to explicitly issue a save order; OneNote saves data automatically as it is entered.

Information in Microsoft OneNote is saved in Pages, which are organized into Sections within Notebooks. OneNote's interface is an electronic version of a tabbed ring binder which can be used directly for making notes, but also to gather material obtained from other applications. OneNote notebooks are designed for collecting, organizing, and sharing possibly unpolished materials, while word processors and wikis are usually targeted at publishing in some way. The difference shows in certain features and characteristics: Pages can be arbitrarily large; bitmap images can be pasted in without quality loss; there is no support for enforcing a uniform page layout or structure. Pages can be moved inside the binder and annotated with a stylus or word processing or drawing tools. Users may add embedded multimedia recordings and web links.

While OneNote is most commonly used on laptops or desktop PCs, it has additional features for use on pen-enabled Tablet PCs, in environments where pen, audio, or video notes are more appropriate than an intensive use of keyboard. It also features an OCR (Optical character recognition) facility which allows the user to extract the text from objects such as images, to use elsewhere in a text format.

OneNote provides integration of search features and indexing into a free-form graphics and audio repository. Images (e.g., screen captures, embedded document scans, or photographs) can be searched for embedded text content. Electronic ink annotations can also be searched as text. Audio recordings can also be searched phonetically by giving a text key, and can be replayed concurrently with the notes taken during the recording.

Its multi-user capability allows offline editing and later synchronization and merging at the paragraph level. This enables collaboration in workgroups whose members are not always online. OneNote also allows more than one person to work on the same page at the same time, making it a shared whiteboard tool as well.

File format

Microsoft OneNote files bear the file name extension of .one, a proprietary file format used in earlier versons of OneNote. However, the file format was upgraded twice after its introduction in Microsoft OneNote 2003: Once in Microsoft OneNote 2007 and another time in Microsoft OneNote 2010.[4] OneNote 2003 files can be opened by both OneNote 2007 and OneNote 2010 in read-only mode, and subsequently upgraded to the later versions of the file format.[5][6] OneNote 2010 can read and write OneNote 2007 file formats. It can also convert back and forth between the 2010 and the 2007 formats.[6]

Microsoft OneNote 2010 uses an open XML-based file format similar to Office Open XML file formats that is stored along with the attachments (such as pictures, video, etc.) inside a single binary format.[7][8][9]

Platform support

Microsoft OneNote 2003 runs on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. OneNote 2007 dropped support for Windows 2000.

Microsoft OneNote supports Windows Live Mesh, which allows cloud-based storage and synchronization of OneNote files that permit their editing and viewing by any OneNote client, including Office Online.[10] OneNote 2007 also supports simultaneous editing without any locking of shared OneNote documents by multiple users when the document is stored in a shared folder,[11] Windows Live Mesh, Windows Live Skydrive or Dropbox.[12]

Microsoft OneNote is also available for mobile phones. A mobile version of OneNote is included in the Office Hub on Windows Phone 7. This version supports notebooks which are stored locally on the phone, or synchronized with a remote copy on Windows Live SkyDrive or Microsoft SharePoint. Microsoft OneNote Mobile is also built into Windows Mobile Professional 6.1. Microsoft OneNote Mobile for older Windows Mobile smartphones and pocket PCs is included with Microsoft OneNote 2007. Microsoft has released a stand-alone OneNote app for Apple iOS.[13] It is available from Apple App Store. There are separate versions for the iPhone, iPad and Android and they are each free for up to 500 notes. Beyond 500 notes a paid upgrade is available.[14]

There is a free third-party OneNote reader app for iPad from Aqrate Software company. The product is called Outline. BusinessWare Technologies Inc. has also produced a third-party OneNote client for iOS and Android, called MobileNoter.

Reviews

Christopher Dawson reviewed the 2010 version of OneNote, titling his favorable review "OneNote is Office 2010's killer app in education."[15] He speculated that the app would be particularly useful as a tool for student notetaking.

Version history

Product release or event Release date[16]
First public announcement November 17, 2002
OneNote 2003 November 19, 2003
OneNote 2003 SP1 July 27, 2004
OneNote 2003 SP2 September 26, 2005
OneNote 2003 SP3 September 18, 2007
OneNote 2007 January 27, 2007
OneNote 2007 SP1 December 11, 2007
OneNote 2007 SP2 April 28, 2009
OneNote 2010[17] July 15, 2010
OneNote 2010 SP1[18] June 28, 2011

All release dates pertain to general availability. Release to manufacturing is usually two or three months in advance.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Microsoft OneNote". Android Market. Google. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Microsoft OneNote". App Store. Apple Inc. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
  3. ^ a b "Microsoft OneNote for iPad". App Store. Apple Inc. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
  4. ^ "Error message when you try to open a OneNote 2007 or 2010 file in OneNote 2003: "This section is from a later version of OneNote and cannot be opened" (Revision 4.0)". Microsoft Support. Microsoft Corporation. 12 September 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  5. ^ Rasmussen, David (2006-10-08). "Why the OneNote 2007 and 2003 file format are different". David Rasmussen's Blog. Microsoft Corporation. MSDN Blogs. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
  6. ^ a b "About file format changes in OneNote 2010". Microsoft Office website. Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  7. ^ "[MS-ONE]: OneNote File Format Specification". MSDN. Microsoft Corporation. 10 June 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  8. ^ "[MS-ONESTORE]: OneNote Revision Store File Format Specification". MSDN. Microsoft Corporation. 10 June 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  9. ^ "OneNote 2010: XML Schema Definition (XSD) File". Microsoft Download Center. Microsoft Corporation. 13 September 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  10. ^ "Office Online". Office.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
  11. ^ DavidRas (2006-06-29). "Sharing using USB drives". Blogs.msdn.com. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
  12. ^ Sharing using dropbox
  13. ^ "Microsoft OneNote App for iPhone and iPod free for limited time".
  14. ^ ""OneNote for iPad ships"". OneNote-Tips.com. Retrieved 2012-01-13.
  15. ^ Dawson, Christopher (May 12, 2010). "OneNote is Office 2010's killer app in education". ZDNet.
  16. ^ "Microsoft OneNote Life-cycle Information". Retrieved 2011-10-25.
  17. ^ DavidRas (2009-07-14). "OneNote 2010 What's new". Blogs.msdn.com. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
  18. ^ "OneNote 2010 - Service Pack 1". Officeforlawyers.com. Retrieved 2011-09-02.
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