OneNote-Blog Tips and News for Microsoft OneNote

In a video interview OneNote chief designer March Rogers gives some interesting insights to the new UI design and the future plans for OneNote. A commentary and analysis attempt.

The backup options of OneNote 2013/2016 are set correctly but the destination folder remains empty? Maybe just a little checkmark is missing.

Since Windows 10 Creators Update (1703) the feature to create a screenshot with [WIN] + [Shift] + [S] and send it to OneNote no longer works. What now?

Did you know that OneNote was about to get called “Scribbler” at first? An old blog article by Chris Pratley, the mind behind OneNote, tells the story of its beginning.

It’s rather easy to create a shortcut to a certain OneNote notebook, section or page. But it needs a trick to add that link as a tile to the Windows 10 start menu. Here’s how you do it.

The OneNote team at Microsoft takes a surprising step forward with the Web Clipper: From now on, it is open source. The code is visible to everyone and ambitious programmers may take part in the development.

…nor for all other OneNote versions apart from OneNote for Windows Office. Now it’s kind of official.

Since early 2014 Microsoft is offering a free download of OneNote, at first OneNote 2013, now OneNote 2016. Is it really the full OneNote 2016? And why is the Microsoft website telling me I already got it?

Almost all existing OneNote versions require your notebooks to be stored in a Microsoft cloud service, namely OneDrive or OneDrive for Business. Is there a way to bypass that restriction?

If you do not want to store your OneNote notebooks on OneDrive but use Dropbox, Google Drive, Box or a similar cloud storage service instead you might attempt to save your OneNote files in the corresponding local sync folder. Not a good idea.