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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
| Stable release | 2010 (14.0.4763.1000) / 15 June 2010 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, iOS, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7 and Symbian |
| Type | Notetaking |
| License | Proprietary commercial software |
| Website | office.microsoft.com/onenote/ |
Microsoft OneNote (formerly called Microsoft Office OneNote) is a computer program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It can gather users' notes (handwritten or typed), drawings, screen clippings, and audio commentaries and share them with other users of Microsoft OneNote over the Internet. The desktop version of OneNote is available for the Microsoft Windows platform.
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In Microsoft OneNote, users can enter typed text via keyboard, create tables, and insert pictures. However, unlike a word processor, users can simply write anywhere on a virtually unbounded document window by just clicking there. Also, users do not need to explicitly issue a save order; OneNote saves data automatically as it is entered.
Information in Microsoft OneNote is saved in Pages, which are organized into Sections within Notebooks. OneNote's interface is an electronic version of the familiar tabbed ring binder which can be used directly for making notes, but also to gather material obtained from other applications. OneNote notebooks are designed for collecting, organizing, and sharing possibly unpolished materials, while word processors and wikis are usually targeted at publishing in some way. The difference shows in certain features and characteristics: Pages can be arbitrarily large; bitmap images can be pasted in without quality loss; there is no support for enforcing a uniform page layout or structure. Pages can be moved inside the binder and annotated with a stylus or word processing or drawing tools. Users may add embedded multimedia recordings and web links.
While OneNote is most commonly used on laptops or desktop PCs, it has additional features for use on pen-enabled Tablet PCs, in environments where pen, audio, or video notes are more appropriate than an intensive use of keyboard.
OneNote provides integration of search features and indexing into a free-form graphics and audio repository. Images (e.g., screen captures, embedded document scans, or photographs) can be searched for embedded text content. Electronic ink annotations can also be searched as text. Audio recordings can also be searched phonetically by giving a text key, and can be replayed concurrently with the notes taken during the recording.
Its multi-user capability allows offline editing and later synchronization and merging at the paragraph level. This makes it a tool for workgroups that collaborate on research whose members are not always online. OneNote is designed as a collaborative tool and allows more than one person to work on the same page at the same time, making it a shared whiteboard tool as well.
Microsoft OneNote files bear the file name extension of .one; a proprietary file format used in earlier versons of OneNote. However, the file format was upgraded twice after its introduction in Microsoft OneNote 2003: Once in Microsoft OneNote 2007 and another time in Microsoft OneNote 2010.[1] OneNote 2003 files can be opened by both OneNote 2007 and OneNote 2010 in read-only mode, and subsequently upgraded to the later versions of the file format.[2][3] OneNote 2010 can read and write OneNote 2007 file formats. It can also convert back and forth between the 2010 and the 2007 formats.[3]
Microsoft OneNote 2010 uses an open XML-based file format similar to Office Open XML file formats that is stored along the attachments (such as pictures, video, etc.) inside a single binary format.[4][5][6]
Microsoft OneNote 2003 runs on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. OneNote 2007 dropped support for Windows 2000.
Microsoft OneNote supports Windows Live Mesh, which allows cloud-based storage and synchronization of OneNote files that permit their editing and viewing by any OneNote client, including Office Online.[7] OneNote 2007 also supports simultaneous editing without any locking of shared OneNote documents by multiple users when the document is stored in a shared folder,[8] Windows Live Mesh, Windows Live Skydrive or Dropbox.[9]
The OneNote Program is not available for the Apple or Mac as a separate program. There is a template in the Apple/Mac version of Office 2010 for Word that has some of the functions of One Note, but the program does not exist for an Apple/Mac. It is not known if the functions of the template duplicate the Windows platform program functions. It needs to be evaluated by someone with both Mac and Windows computer capabilities. [10]
Microsoft OneNote is also available for mobile phones. A mobile version of OneNote is included in the Office Hub on Windows Phone 7. This version supports notebooks which are stored locally on the phone, or synchronized with a remote copy on Windows Live SkyDrive or Microsoft SharePoint. Microsoft OneNote Mobile is also built into Windows Mobile Professional 6.1. Microsoft OneNote Mobile for older Windows Mobile smartphones and pocket PCs is included with Microsoft OneNote 2007. Microsoft has released a stand-alone OneNote app for Apple iOS.[11] It is available from Apple App Store.
There is a free third-party OneNote reader app for iPad from Aqrate Software company. The product is called Outline. BusinessWare Technologies Inc. has also produced a third-party OneNote client for iOS and Android, called MobileNoter.
Christopher Dawson reviewed the 2010 version of OneNote, titling his favorable review "OneNote is Office 2010's killer app in education".[12] He speculated that the app would be particularly useful as a tool for student notetaking.
| Product release or event | Release date[13] |
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| First public announcement | November 17, 2002 |
| OneNote 2003 | November 19, 2003 |
| OneNote 2003 SP1 | July 27, 2004 |
| OneNote 2003 SP2 | September 26, 2005 |
| OneNote 2003 SP3 | September 18, 2007 |
| OneNote 2007 | January 27, 2007 |
| OneNote 2007 SP1 | December 11, 2007 |
| OneNote 2007 SP2 | April 28, 2009 |
| OneNote 2010[14] | July 15, 2010 |
| OneNote 2010 SP1[15] | June 28, 2011 |
All release dates pertain to general availability. Release to manufacturing is usually two or three months in advance.
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