OneNote syncs your notes across all devices and lets multiple people work on the content together, at the same time. Share your notebook with whomever you want, such as your colleagues or family, and work on your projects together. Use OneNote as a notebook, journal or a notepad. You can use tags to label to-do lists, follow up items, mark what's important or make custom labels. Not sure where you categorized something? Use our powerful search to look across all of your notebooks or just the page you're on to find what you're looking for, even words on pages you scanned into your notes. Easily use sections and pages to separate out thoughts by theme at school, home or work.

OneNote is set up like a notebook to bring the familiar physical 3-ring binder to the digital era. Featuresĭo you scribble great ideas on napkins and sticky notes? Is precise filing more your style? OneNote's got you covered whatever way you shape your thoughts. This works best on devices with touch input although you can also draw with a mouse. OneNote allows you to handwrite notes, but also draw or sketch things. Yes, OneNote keeps a cached version of your notes on your local device, so when you're connected to the Internet, any changes you've made will be updated and synced to the cloud. Paid Microsoft 365 users get 1TB of cloud storage. The free version of OneNote includes 5GB of cloud storage for your notebooks, so you can access them from anywhere. Can OneNote store and sync my notes on the cloud? OneNote runs on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and even from a browser.

Yes, Microsoft OneNote can be downloaded for free as a standalone app and used independently of Microsoft Office even though it's also part of the suite and it can be integrated seamlessly with Microsoft 365. Jot down your ideas, keep track of classroom and meeting notes, clip from the web, or make a to-do list, draw and sketch your ideas. OneNote is a digital notebook for capturing and organizing everything across your devices.

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