so microsoft onenote has improved their android experience they've also done some much needed
upgrades to the windows version in the last couple of months preparing for september
for the students to come back is probably one of their goals today we're going to overview
everything that's new with onenote for android and windows over the last couple of months
to get an idea of if it's suitable for you as a note-taking application before we begin this
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we would love to have you my name is francesco and i'm excited to dive into this microsoft onenote
video so onenote for android has improved pretty dramatically they're refreshing the application
and rolling this out as we speak now the android mobile version didn't get much attention before
but it's improved and taken a lot of inspiration from likes of google keep and evernote in the
last couple of weeks what they've done is they've improved two major areas of the application let's
start with the first area so the home area is much improved as i was mentioning a lot of inspiration
from google keep and evernote here by going with a different view style they've gone for a list view
and a grid view that makes much better use of viewing notes in a rich detail preview which is
really helpful for just being able to see stuff in detail and also making sure you know what type of
note is actually part and parcel of the screen so it's really great for saving a bit of time
especially when you're working out okay what's a checklist what's a sticky note what's a notebook
page you can see that at a glance you can also toggle from home to notebooks which is perfect
for being able to see uh all of those notebooks without having to go to an additional page it's
just quick swipe at the top of the screen which is absolutely perfect so as i mentioned a lot
of inspiration there from google and evernote they've also introduced and the second sort of
core major feature an improved quick capture at the bottom of the page you'll now be able
to quickly capture text voice ink and camera at a glance and they've also improved the
camera editions with an upgraded microsoft lens integration allowing you to choose from a range
of new filters and image editing tools you can also with the camera scan a document and extract
text directly onto your note which is a much improved upgrade and i'm sure the students
out there will love that one for sure now they've also improved the way that they capture recordings
i really like the way that they've done this in terms of pressing the recording button on a quick
capture and being able to start automatically recording and dictation as well and you can
even do things like space question marks new lines without affecting everything you're doing
so at the same time you'll be able to produce pretty decent dictation and not be able to get
any punctuation or grammar wrong which is perfect so much needed improvements for this application
now as i mentioned at the start the onenote app for windows definitely got an improvement
back in may they announced it of august 2021 i believe of what's coming to onenote for windows
but they actually announced a much improved and more modern approach to it now if you knew
the windows older version it was very stale it very much looked like one of the older
2007 xl experiences but they made a clean refresh to this just tidying up what it looked like making
it less old-school microsoft and more i still would say a couple of years ago microsoft but much
improved version for sure they've increased the quality of the um the ability to access all of
their sort of drop downs and things like that just making it a lot cleaner and you can see
from some of the visuals here that that style is a lot better now you've also got subtle touches like
personalization then incorporates it incorporates the windows 11 theme and desktop wallpaper
into the windows app as well so a much improved update and they focused on i guess four key areas
for this windows version the focus on your content the capture with the voice ink camera and ai
organizing pages and sharing notes with clarity so you can definitely see this across this version
of it windows making a much better approach than any of the other experiences overall and of course
they would and now we're finally seeing these changes come to one note for android so that was
an overview of the onenote for android upgrades i hope you enjoyed this video and if you're new
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