OneNote is free


Microsoft have announced a few OneNote changes and additions:

  1. OneNote for Mac is available for the first time and for free! With this, OneNote is now     available on all the platforms: PC, Mac, Windows tablets, Windows Phone, iPad, iPhone, Android and the Web. And they’re always in sync.
  2. OneNote is now free everywhere including the Windows PC desktop and Mac version. Premium features are available to paid customers.
  3. 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.

I use OneNote ALL the time – on my desktop, on my Surface, on my Lumia – all notes syncing between all devices so I’ve got everything I need no matter what device I’m using. Not only is it great for personal notes, it’s a brilliant way of collaborating and sharing info with team mates, colleagues and friends too.

Making it available on Mac opens this wonderfulness up to at least a couple of extra people Winking smile and making it free certainly widens the scope!

Head over to http://www.onenote.com/ to download OneNote now.

OneNote 2010: RTM Upgrade


I upgraded to the final release version of Office 2010 yesterday and opened up my newly installed RTM version of OneNote this morning, to be greeted by this message:

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This didn’t cause me any issues as I haven’t been syncing OneNote and I imagine that people who do would usually sync everything each day so this wouldn’t really come up.

However I can also imagine that this would be really annoying if it DID affect you as you’d need to:

  1. Uninstall Office 2010 RTM
  2. Re-Install Office 2010 Beta
  3. Sync One Note
  4. Uninstall Office 2010 Beta
  5. Re-Install Office 2010 RTM

 

which is quite a long winded process!

So, moral of the story is:

If you’re going to move up to the Office 2010 RTM, SYNC ONENOTE FIRST! 🙂

I hope that helps someone…