OneNote Genesis (2004)

I maintain that OneNote is the best application in Microsoft Office (but I won't argue if you vote for Excel).

If it had an open file format that other applications actually supported, it would be perfect.

I write journals and notes on OneNote. Microsoft has done a really great job with OneNote, it works great across platforms, I use it on Windows, Mac, iOS and Android.

Curious about what people think about outliners vs storing information in a rich text format, any thoughts? I like the structure and constraints an outline promotes and use one huge outline for most ideas and thoughts before they become something “real”. How would you consider an outline vs “paper” documents?

A fantastic product. A well designed ap from the bottom up and one that, as a student, I find incredibly useful and use constantly. I have made suggestions on future enhancements in the public newsgroups, and shall try and think of me. Just dont forget: naming of sub-pages :-). Many thanks

I bought crossover and run Office 2010 on Wine just to be able to use OneNote on Linux. It just matches my way of organising. I've never found any Linux native apps that get close :(

I recently started using OneNote as "drawing application" on windows 10 and even bough a $100 wacom tablet for that purpose. It is great !

OneNote + Outlook (creating meetings and the corresponding note for everyone to see and edit) is my main productivity combo since it works so well across platforms. I do everything there: meeting minutes, to-do checklists, drafts, and so on.

OneNote is the only reason I don't drop MS Office for GDocs. There's nothing else remotely as good as OneNote that I've been able to find. The outlining functions and structure just work the way my brain works.