{"id":316392,"date":"2021-08-06T02:15:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T23:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/microsoft-is-finally-making-the-onenote-to-rule-them-all\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T02:15:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T23:15:52","slug":"microsoft-is-finally-making-the-onenote-to-rule-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/microsoft-is-finally-making-the-onenote-to-rule-them-all\/","title":{"rendered":"#Microsoft is finally making the OneNote to rule them all"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Microsoft is finally making the OneNote to rule them all<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

As someone who\u2019s been on tablets PCs since before the Surface line even popularized 2-in-1s, I\u2019m something of a religious stylus user. I wrote many of my college notes on Microsoft\u2019s OneNote, but in the last few years, the app<\/a> has lived in a rather frustrating dichotomy. You had \u2018OneNote for Windows 10,\u2019 built on the more modern UWP code and available right from the Windows Store, and then you had\u00a0OneNote<\/em>, the classic version of the app distributed through Microsoft Office.<\/p>\n

In my experience, the former has tended to be more responsive, while the latter had way more features built-in for power uses. But then the former would often get new features before the latter, as if the apps were being developed in parallel. It\u2019s honestly been a bit of a headache to keep up with which version can do what, and I often found myself switching between the two. It\u2019s quite annoying.<\/p>\n

It seems that will soon be a worry of the past. At long last, Microsoft plans to unite both versions<\/a> of the app, coinciding with the redesigned Office suite to match Windows 11.<\/p>\n

While a few years ago it seemed Microsoft was looking to deprecate the office version in favor of building out the UWP app, now it seems like the opposite will happen. Microsoft says advances in Windows and Office will allow for the unification, with the Office version of OneNote set to get \u201cnew features and key existing features currently unique to OneNote for Windows 10.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company also provided a few low-res mockups of the new OneNote. It\u2019s not clear if these are two separate design ideas or if the company will let you choose between the two UI\u2019s, but they look pretty neat. The first one looks more like the Office version of OneNote:<\/p>\n

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Credit: Microsoft<\/figcaption>