Michal Ždanský She appeared a few days ago flood of applications from the Microsoft workshop. One of the most interesting was the OneNote app for iPad, the mobile version of the Microsoft Office note-taking program, the iPhone version of which appeared in the App Store earlier.
From the very first launch, the application acts more like a propaganda for Microsoft products. In order to even start using OneNote, you need to set up a Windows Live account, without it you can't get any further. This may already discourage many users. Of course, it makes sense from Microsoft's point of view. They can thus attract users to their own services, in addition, synchronization of notes is carried out via SkyDrive, Microsoft's equivalent of Dropbox.
After starting, you have a single notebook at your disposal, which is further divided into sections, and only in the sections are the notes themselves. Here comes another problem. You can't create new notebooks or sections on the iPad, only in the SkyDrive web interface, which you also can't open to create anything in mobile Safari.
If you start the web interface, for example, in Chrome (same core as Safari) on the desktop, then everything already works. You can create blocks, sections, and notes themselves. At the same time, the OneNote note editor is excellently processed, just like the other programs of the Office package (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) and it does not compete with the popular Google Docs either. The irony is that you have much more extensive editing options in the browser that take advantage of the Rich Text Format (RTF) formatting options. On the other hand, editing in OneNote is quite limited.
The simple editor only lets you create checkboxes, bulleted lists, or insert an image from your camera or library. That ends all possibilities. Although sending the entire note by e-mail is a great addition (it does not send a file but directly the text), it does not save the very limited editing options.
OneNote for iPad is a freemium app. In the free version, it only allows you to have 500 notes. Once you reach your limit, you can only edit, view or delete notes. To remove this restriction, you have to pay a staggering €11,99 (€3,99 for the iPhone version) via In-App Purchase, then you can write notes unlimitedly.
It is a great pity that Microsoft did not finish OneNote, the application is, in terms of graphics and user interface, very well developed. In addition, the environment is completely localized into Czech. Unfortunately, the application has a lot of unfinished business, one of which is the absence of automatic synchronization.
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Can someone download it in the Slovak app store?
I tried it on my iPhone once, looking for something to take notes on. I eventually ended up with Evernote a little late (about a year behind the others :-)).
I tried getting started with SkyDrive a few days ago, so maybe OneNote could be comparable. Does anyone have more experience with this?
In general, I would welcome something like this directly from Apple - something like Evernote with iCloud storage, sharing options, etc. Unfortunately, I'm a bit embarrassed about Apple's services at the moment. Just today I was taking photos with my iPhone during the day and wanted to send them home for my family to view - on a large Apple TV. I believe that it was possible before - to send the picture taken directly to the gallery (MobileMe Gallery), now that option is not there. Embarrassingly, I uploaded it to Dropbox with 3rd party applications so that they would at least have it on the computer (I didn't want to fill up my inbox with it). What is wrong here? Where is Apple's simple solution.
(sorry for going off topic)
If you have google docs, I recommend Notemaster
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notemaster-notes-images-synced/id297921531?mt=8
– sync with pictures too!
- I've been using it for about 3 months - the highest level of satisfaction