It’s ideal for brainstorming, visually organising your notes, and creating longer content.

In short, if you want to make your notes look pretty or organise them the way you would a paper notebook, OneNote’s powerful and flexible formatting capabilities are for you. (Sadly, this isn’t a feature in the Mac version, although it might make sense, considering Macs don’t ship with touchscreen displays.)Īlso, in OneNote you can choose to show or hide notebooks - which helps cut down on visual clutter - and make some notes “subpages” (indenting them in the page menu), which helps create a visual hierarchy of notes and group them together easily. In the Windows desktop version, you can draw or handwrite anywhere on a note as well. You can also dock your note to a small window on your desktop for easy note-taking or writing while you surf the web. Or you can apply various templates to make your notes or pages stand out.Ĭontinuing the Word document analogy, OneNote also includes writing tools such as a research panel to look up reference sources, a thesaurus, a spell checker and language translation. You can also customise how each note looks (really, they’re more like pages than notes), altering the background colour, gridlines and page sizes. OneNote’s menus include text formatting tools like quick styles (for headings, footers and so on) and the very useful “format painter” tool to copy and apply formatting.

Also like using a paper notebook, you can add text, images, tables and more anywhere on the page - side by side if you want - and format them as easily as you can a Word document. OneNote takes the “ digital notebook” analogy to heart, organising notes into coloured tabbed sections within notebooks.

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