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It's a great app for a 1.0 release and good enough for the majority of users. People laughed at Notes.app but underestimated the power of the default app. I haven't launched Evernote in a decade...

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Notes is one of my favourite apps on iOS. I just realised recently I could drag-and-drop recordings from Voice Memos right inline into a note on iPad and it synced everywhere, with playback controls right under my text

It also looks nice, syncs and collaborates well. I have everything from my shopping lists, to scans of all my kids' artwork, to design documents for coding projects

I have to use OneNote at work and it is abysmal. It is plain how little care and love appears to go into that product

What's your gripe with OneNote? I used it a few years ago and remember enjoying it much more than Apple Notes, especially on desktop.

it somehow doesn't even ink to text on my iPad

It did on my Surface, for what that's worth.

Typing latency is measured in the tens of seconds.

Must be using the same GUI framework that they use for Office apps on Windows ;-)

I haven’t seen any such sluggishness. The only area where OneNote (MacOS) is slow is in syncing to other devices where it can take a minute or two to bring changes to another device. I rarely switch devices within a session so that doesn’t bother me.

Which OS are you using for OneNote?

You’d hate the Tangerine (bank) website. Each letter typed does a round-trip to the server, and each text box gets progressively slower the more put in it.

(Not just trauma-dumping. Saying this here to say there might be a common tech problem that we can expose)

I can't name a single meaningful new feature that was added to OneNote in the past 8 years.

As far as I understood, they will soon add Loop components. That will introduce a tone of new features soon.

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