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When I switched from PC to Mac, giving up my notebook program, Microsoft Office OneNote, was one of my main concerns. OneNote was fantastic for keeping track of all my writing notes, and I needed something to replace it before I was willing to switch. My research turned up Growly Notes; it’s a very similar program and has all the features I needed.Growly Notes lets you easily create multiple notebooks with different sections in order to keep your life organized. Tabs are color coded so you can easily find a different section and you can label them. The notebook labels are on the top and the subjects down the sides, it makes them easy to see and navigate through, especially if you need to do so quickly. It has the automatic save feature like OneNote, so you don’t have to save after every little note you make, you can close it without the program making a fuss about it. The one thing Growly Notes is missing that OneNote had was a toolbar option, where you could make a random note and it would automatically import it into the program, under an un-filed notes section. Growly Notes uses a ‘floating window’, which is a little window that you can put notes in and it transfers them to scratch paper in the actual program. It’s not as convenient, but at least they found an alternative to that feature. One thing Growly Notes trumps OneNote at is that the user interface is customizable. You can change the colors of the tabs to fit your liking and if you don’t like the tabs, you can chose to go without them. Like OneNote you can click anywhere on the notebook to start typing, you can also insert photos, audio, tables and video in. Need to move the text, or item? Simple click on it and it’ll form a box, you can drag it anywhere you need it. It’s a fully functional free note taking system, but there are also templates that you can use if you want or need to. Honestly the developers of this program took all the best aspects of OneNote and put them into a Mac compatible program.For those of you who are cross-platform there’s some bad news – Growly Notes cannot read OneNote files, nor do they plan on making a Windows version. However, according to their website they are on the constant look out for someone to write a OneNote plug in for Growly Notes.
Overall, I have to say that Growly Notes is the best replacement for OneNote that is out there. As far as software goes, it’s fantastic and it’s become another one of my must have for my Mac.
When we started OneNote we set out to revolutionize the way people capture, annotate, and recall all the ideas, thoughts, snippets and plans in their life. As many of you have attested, OneNote is the ultimate extension for your brain, but it’s not complete if it’s not instantly available everywhere. We’ve already made a lot of progress in that direction with our mobile, tablet and online web experiences. But there was still a gap. People frequently asked us for OneNote on Mac, and for more ways to capture content.
Today we’re excited to complete that story with three major developments:
- OneNote for Mac is available for the first time and for free. With this, OneNote is now available on all the platforms you care about: PC, Mac, Windows tablets, Windows Phone, iPad, iPhone, Android and the Web. And they’re always in sync.
- OneNote is now freeeverywhere including the Windows PC desktop and Mac version because we want everyone to be able to use it. Premium features are available to paid customers.
- The OneNote service now provides a cloud API enabling any application to connect to it. This makes it easier than ever to capture ideas, information and inspirations from more applications and more places straight into OneNote, including:
- OneNote Clipper for saving web pages to OneNote
- [email protected] for emailing notes to OneNote
- Office Lens for capturing documents and whiteboards with your Windows Phone
- Sending blog and news articles to OneNote from Feedly, News360 and Weave
- Easy document scanning to OneNote with Brother, Doxie Go, Epson, and Neat
- Writing notes with pen and paper and sending them to OneNote with Livescribe
- Mobile document scanning to OneNote with Genius Scan and JotNot
- Having your physical notebooks scanned into OneNote with Mod Notebooks
- Connecting your world to OneNote with IFTTT
Go to www.onenote.com to get OneNote for free for your Mac, PC or other devices, and try out the new OneNote service connected experiences.
OneNote for Mac
Mac users have made it loud and clear that you want the first class note-taking experience of OneNote on your Macs. Actually… really, really clear. We got LOTS of direct mails, forum posts, and tweets like these:
- “Now, @msonenote needs to release the OS X version of OneNote and my life will be complete :)”
- “Dear Microsoft – the new web OneNote is nice. A native Mac version would be better. By this afternoon please, I have work to do.”
- “I own a Mac and I LOVE OneNote so for me having OneNote on my Mac would just rock my world.”
- “I desperately want OneNote on my new Mac… I use OneNote on VMware Fusion… There is nothing remotely like it for Mac… I have just spent a week looking for anything that comes close.”
Okay, we got the message. Rocking worlds and making lives complete is a pretty high bar, and we’re sorry we missed your afternoon deadline, but we’ve been working away, and we’re excited to bring it to you today. And if you’re a Mac user who didn’t already know about OneNote, check out Introducing OneNote for Mac or just get started now by downloading OneNote for Mac from the Mac App Store to see what your fellow Mac users are so excited about.
OneNote 2013 for Windows is now available FREE
People love OneNote 2013 on Windows. We want this awesome experience to be available to anybody, so we’ve created a free version! It’s designed for personal and school use, it’s totally ad-free and there’s no limit on how long you can use it because it’s not just a trial. For Office 365 and Office 2013 customers, we have premium features like SharePoint support, version history, Outlook integration and so on, but all the core OneNote application capabilities are available in the free version.
Everything you create in the free PC and Mac clients are synced to OneDrive, so you can access them from your phone and tablet too. Your Microsoft Account gives you 7GB of free storage with no monthly upload limit, so there’s plenty of room for everything you want to remember.
If you have an older version of OneNote or haven’t yet had a chance to use OneNote on your PC, get OneNote 2013 today at www.onenote.com.
OneNote service: Bringing OneNote to the apps you care about
OneNote is more than just syncing your content across all your devices. It’s now a hub for the applications and experiences you care about. By making it easy to send anything from any application to OneNote, it’s one more step towards becoming your digital memory. We’ve built some new experiences for this and we’ve worked with a bunch of partners to integrate it with their applications as well.
OneNote Clipper: The new OneNote Clipper lets you capture any web page in one click. The page is automatically put in your OneNote Quick Notes. It is available for Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and Mac Safari.
Send email to OneNote: Send a mail to [email protected] and we’ll save it into your OneNote Quick Notes. Forward a receipt from your inbox or send a web link from your phone to [email protected].
Office Lens: Office Lens is a Windows Phone app that’s like having a scanner in your pocket. Take a picture of a whiteboard, document, business card, or anything. Office Lens will enhance the image and put it into your OneNote Quick Notes. We’ll recognize the text so you can search for your scans.
Partner apps and devices: We want to make it easy to remember things from anywhere, not just Microsoft apps. So we’ve been working with several key partners to let you do that. You can use these great apps and devices to get anything into OneNote today: Brother, Doxie Go, Epson, Feedly, Genius Scan, IFTTT, JotNot, Livescribe, Mod Notebook, News360 and Weave. Check them all out at www.onenote.com/apps
We also have several more exciting partner experiences coming soon including Neat. If you’d like to make your app, device or service work with OneNote, visit our developer portal at http://dev.onenote.com or check out the OneNote Dev Blog.
Learn more, ask questions
Along with these exciting releases we have some great free events this week.
- OneNote for Mac 15-minute Webinar: Join Doug Thomas online to learn why OneNote rocks, how to use OneNote for Mac and have some fun. There will be Q&A with the team as well. You can join us for the OneNote for Mac Webinar on March 18 at 9:00am PST or you can watch the recording afterwards.
- OneNote Twitter Q&A with Joe Block: We will be asking Joe Block, play-by-play broadcaster for the Milwaukee Brewers, about the upcoming baseball season, March Madness, and how he uses OneNote to track it all. To join us on Twitter follow @msonenote or @joe_block. The Q&A will start on March 18 at 9:30am PST.
- OneNote reddit IAMA: If you still have questions for the OneNote team about OneNote, today’s announcements, our favorite color or anything at all – this is for you. Head on over to reddit on March 19 at 9:00am PST and ask the OneNote team anything!
It’s going to just keep getting better
Today is a huge step forward for OneNote. We’ve made it easier to use OneNote no matter what platform you’re on, and easier than ever to send anything into OneNote. But we’re not stopping here. We’re continually improving OneNote across our applications and service, and working with partners so you can take note of anything and keep it in your digital memory.
Go to www.onenote.com to get OneNote on all your devices and let us know what you think.
– David Rasmussen, Partner Group Program Manager (on behalf of the whole OneNote team who worked hard to bring you this)
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