Windows 10 All-In-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Chapter 4

Noting OneNote

IN THIS CHAPTER

Taking it to the tablet

Starting with OneNote, whether you have a pen or not

Managing notebooks

Tweaking for fun and profit

If you haven’t used OneNote, you’ve missed out on Microsoft’s premier example of a cloud-first, mobile-first application. OneNote started as a piece of Office. It’s grown though, so now — particularly in Windows 10 — it’s part of Windows itself. It’s arguably the most advanced Universal Windows app, although Microsoft Edge fans may beg to differ.

OneNote isn’t Windows-only. Far from it. From early in this decade, it has been available on iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets, and other mobile devices. Working with OneDrive (see Book 6, Chapter 1), you can use OneNote to talk to yourself — pass all sorts of things around to your computer(s), your tablet(s), your smartphone(s) — and the OneNote interface makes working with those things surprisingly easy.

To understand OneNote, it helps to understand how it started ...