Microsoft’s Office Blog states the following, verbatim:
OneNote is your place to jot down your ideas, capture your collection of web clippings and research, plan your trips and events, check your to-dos and shopping lists and share your notes with friends and co-workers. It’s a single place to collect your thoughts and ideas, as well as an easy and fun way to stay organized.
Here are some of the main highlights of why we think you are going to love OneNote for Mac.
Create your notes as you wish
Similar to other Office for Mac applications, OneNote for Mac has the Ribbon user interface with a variety of options for formatting and styling your notes. Your notes can be styled however you like. You can choose that special font and color you like to use for your notes, or emphasize important content with bold, underline or highlights.
Sometimes notes contain lists. Whether it’s an invitees list for a party, or the checklist you use for traveling, you can manage your lists using multiple levels of bullets and numbering, and with quick shortcut keys you can re-order, strikethrough, format and more. In addition, if you want to remember, flag or track specific items, you can choose from over 20 styles of tags, such as a To Do tag to check off completed items.
A picture is worth a thousand words, so we make it easy for you to insert pictures in your notes and place them anywhere on your page. And when your notes are best organized in a table, you can easily do so with a variety of table formatting options, such as cell shading colors.
One of the unique characteristics of a page in OneNote is that it’s an infinite canvas where you can lay out different note containers with different content types anywhere you like on the page.
Familiar notebook experience
Your notes are structured in each OneNote notebook with sections and pages similar to paper notebooks. You can create a separate notebook for each of the different projects or aspects of your life, such as work, family, school and travel notebooks.
For instance, you can set up a travel notebook with a section for each of your upcoming trips. Each section can contain multiple pages for itinerary information, such as hotel research, flight options, sights to see and places to eat.
To help you easily find your notes and stay organized, you can re-arrange your notebook as you like, including dragging the pages and sections to change their order or location. And you can apply a color theme to sections to identify them at a glance.
Rest assured, you don’t have to remember where you placed each note. You can very quickly find any text, page, section or notebook by using search options.
Share your notes with others
Whether you’re working on a school project or planning an event with friends, OneNote for Mac enables you to collaborate with others on the same notebook. It syncs changes to and from OneDrive seamlessly and fast so that you can see everyone else’s edits and they can see yours. We make it easy for you to identify the changes made in your shared notebook by displaying the names of the different authors next to their edits.
Or, if you want to just share a specific page in your notebook you can simply email that page to others.
Your notes on all your favorite devices
We know how important it is for you to access your notes on all of your devices and for your notes to look exactly the same as you created them. Add a recipe to OneNote on your Mac, and you can view it on your iPhone in the grocery store. Research and plan a trip on your Mac at home and then easily access those same notes on your iPad during your trip.
All those notes you create on OneNote for Mac are synced to OneDrive and available to you on all your other OneNote clients, including OneNote for Windows desktop, Windows Store, Windows Phone, iPhone, iPad, Android and OneNote Online.
These are only some of the highlights of OneNote for Mac—there’s so much more included in this version that we think you’ll enjoy. OneNote for Mac is compatible with Mac OSX [sic] 10.9 and above and you can download it for free from the app store [sic] [recte Mac App Store] today.
Source: Microsoft Office Blogs
MacDailyNews Take: Nope.
Three reasons why I and hopefully many more will avoid this.
1. It’s Microsoft
2: “OneNote for Mac has the Ribbon user interface with a variety of options for formatting and styling your notes.”
3. It’s Microsoft
Create your notes as you wish
– Maybe I don’t wish to make any notes with formating
Familiar notebook experience
– TextEdit is my experience and it comes on Mac free
Share your notes with others
– I already can share my notes with anyone as RTF which btw already works fine on windows
Your notes on all your favorite devices
– I believe Apple will include TextEdit in iOS8 so I can wait
Lastly, yeah its Microsoft and nothing on my Mac or iDevice sees the light of them guys.
you forgot… it’s MicroShaft
MarcoSloth – the big – slow moving, turd smelling scum bucket thiefs
You forgot reason 4. It was tested and approved by the NSA.
4. Microsoft says, “…it’s a fun and easy way…”
Good one… Let me add/modify your original thinking a bit, but it’s still in the spirit of your original note..
1) It’s Microshaft…
2) Evernote has a HUGE head start/advantage that is in-surmountable for the Flying Monkey Squad from Redmond…
3) It’s Microshaft.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s not Microsoft I’m worried about nowadays.
The App Store won’t even connect if I DID want to get it….
You should definitely let Apple know if you’re having connection issues. There isn’t a wide spread issue for Mac Aap Store connection. It’s most likely something blocking the domains or ports needed, firewall, router settings, ISP.
If Apple is not allowing OneNote on the App Store…
hurray, cheers, rejoice
The “Ribbon” is a bunch of crap.
Had to change Something to be able to say that it’s new and improved, you Have to upgrade… 😎
The idea that a “quick” note taking app should have a “ribbon” with all sorts of formatting options and “20 styles of tags” implies that the ideal note taking app must be a complex procedure.
This is the type of MS thinking that leads to a series of apps in MSO that literally require taking a class to become familiar with all the apps features.
OmniOutliner from OmniGroup is a heck of a lot simpler and more usable in my simple mind.
Two more reasons not to use it:
1. 235 MB download
2. “A free Microsoft account is required to use OneNote for Mac”
Those are 2 damn great reasons to avoid the app.
Uh…what?
Why would anyone in their right mind use this product?
I use OneNote at work on Windows. Works well.
I’ll have to check out the OS X version.
I am so glad you like it. Have fun.
I rather not, due to the paranoia of slimy code from Bill Gates and just keeping my Mac clean.
OMG! Don’t just stand there. Quick everyone, stay seated and just keep doing what you’ve BEEN doing WITHOUT OneNote and all will be well.
OneNope!
Try VooDooPad
People are bashing Microsoft, but I was using Apple’s Note for a couple years, then I started losing notes. They vanished into thin air. So I decided I need to back up my notes with copies in both Evenote and OneNote. I prefer Evernote for simpler tasks like shopping lists, because it loads faster. OneNote has more complexity and is slow to load. But I think it is more reliable. I got Office for Mac and was disappointed it did not have OneNote. I am still struggling with the sub notebook arrangements. For example, I have a “Gear” notebook that contains categories like camera, computer, guns, vehicles. Others are Health with foods, supplements, lab tests, shots, blood pressure. I also have pets, family, finance, houses, troubleshooting checklists, vitamins to buy… I would like to hear what other people use it for (instead of all the bashing drivel).
Same here…been using Evernote extensively. While I just started using OneNote on the news of this release, so far, from what I have been seeing, it’s looking like a worthy competitor. But, I’ll have to reserve further judgment. I’ve been using evernote for several years vice to a few hours of onenote.
One Note is a ripoff of Circus Ponies NoteBook- available on the Mac App Store. This app goes all the way back to NeXT
Mac App
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notebook/id412653331?mt=12
iOS App
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/circus-ponies-notebook/id405636065?mt=8
Website of developer
http://www.circusponies.com
Instead of using MS, show a longtime Mac and iOS developer some love.
Perhaps someone can explain the benefit to using a dedicated Note app, beyond its basic utility. The iPad’s Note app is fully usable for simple notes and lists, while Apple’s free Pages (on new devices) app allows more formal formatting. Why would I need a third app?
But, but, but it is free!
OneScrote is probably BLN’s favorite note app
I use NoteSuite both on the iPad and on Mavericks. Nice because it syncs with iCloud. Pretty much the same idea of pictures, text, drawings. Uses folders to group things as you like to.
*yawn* zzzzz
Never bothered with it at work when I used a PC, won’t bother with it at work now that I’m on a Mac. Won’t bother installing it on my MacBook Air at home for sure, if I want to make notes in this manner I’ll stick with Evernote and not MS Bloatware thanks.