14 DAY TRIAL // On Monday, Microsoft officially announced a major upgrade for the OneNote application for devices running under Android and iOS, so as to provide users both with some new features and with better performance than before.
The updated flavors of the two apps arrive on devices with an almost entirely new code base, meant to offer customers more reliable sync capabilities, the company announced.
One of the main changes in the new app flavor is an aligned user interface, making OneNote formatting look the same across devices.
“With the new OneNote updates all formatting looks exactly the same across devices - this includes text formatting, tables with shading and borders, layout and so on. Hyperlinks and note tags are consistently supported,” Microsoft explains in a blog post.
“Even ink from your Windows tablet is shown on iOS and Android now. In short, your notes look the same, all the time, on all devices.”
The team also explains that the new OneNote for iPad comes with an Office Ribbon UI that has been designed to provide users with increased levels of personalization when it comes to creating notes.
It delivers access to the rich formatting available in other Office apps, including font, size color, style, bold, italic, underline, strike through, and highlighting for text, as well as paragraph formatting such as bullets, numbering, indent, and alignment.
Additionally, users can insert and edit tables and hyperlinks, can also come up with check lists and can tag notes with a wide range of options.
The new app flavor also comes with the ability to sync work notebooks with Office 365 and SharePoint, as well as with SkyDrive, in addition to enabling multiple users to edit a note at the same time and see what changes others made to it, simultaneously.
On Android devices, there is also support for Audio notes, along with the option to place OneNote widgets to the device’s home screen, for fast access to note taking. Not to mention that searching notes and accessing recent notes has been greatly improved.
“Finally, I'm happy to share that these apps are currently available for free with no limit on the number of notes you can create - another great update from the prior version,” David Rasmussen, principal group program manager, OneNote, states.
“With OneNote, you can take notes while you're offline, sync without limits and collaborate with others -- unlike some note taking applications which charge for these capabilities.”
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