OneNote lovers on MacOS

Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 19, 2013 at 09:53 AM

Those clever folks at outline.ws have just launched their fully enabled OneNote editor for Mac (Outline for Mac), which looks really rather good: http://outline.ws/mac

If the quality of their iOS offering is anything to go by (Outline+), it should be a seriously nice piece of software.

The big pluses their apps have over OneNote itself (and its various clients) are: drawing, rearranging of text boxes, multiple synchronisation with e.g. Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive etc. In this sense their apps are even more powerful than Microsoft’s own (although I would be the first to admit that OneNote for iOS and Android isn’t bad).

Of all Microsoft’s Office applications, OneNote is perhaps the most entertaining to use (once you’ve got to grips with its ridiculously over-redundant interface = billions of ways of doing the same thing, at least on Windows). Also, it’s a great place to store seriously huge amounts of data, including documents, images, etc. My various OneNote databases take up around 1GB on my iPad, and they’re growing rapidly!

The Outline versions streamline the concept, while preserving important features like a very powerful search function and adding drawing (which you can’t do in OneNote for iOS, Android etc.).