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What Users Really Think About Microsoft OneNote

We analyzed 300 negative reviews of Microsoft OneNote from the App Store. Here's what users are saying.

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What Users Are Saying

But not quite: - make it as simple on iPhone as the native Apple notes app. For example, I never want to be able to drag text from a title into the body; always trying to select some text leads me to accidentally move it. - adding photos it becomes hard to type above or move the photo; very clunky....

Might be the breaking point to change tools when I come in after an update and the system is so foreign suddenly.

We need to understand the rules when different OneNote versions on our devices over rule and overwrite each other, and when all of them sync to the most recent iteration between all of our devices. what if we rename a document does that just create a duplicate with a different name?? How do we sync ...

My sticky notes are now all randomly showing up on the home page with other random pages from my notebooks. I used to be able to tap on a Sticky Notes icon to see just those notes. Sadly it’s been taken out. Guess I won’t be using this app anymore for that!

OneNote is ok!! However once you add the ability to add tags with whatever name we want to tag with, I will give it 5 stars. It seems that all the major note taking apps give you the ability to add tags of your liking.

Great tool to take notes, chronicle info, etc. however the benefit is the ability to get the data across multiple platforms and the syncing is limited.

Generally I like Onenote and it's overall look and feel. A bit disappointed by the brief time with 'liquid glass' that was abandoned. But this last update, although minor, ruins the clean and simple look with unnecessary borders. A minor complaint, but still dumb looking. Hope you don't ruin the And...

If anyone knows how and I just don’t know let me know. But I want to be able to change my pen and highlighter colors for annotating and taking notes. Overall the app is great, I’m happy I can use one note on my phone.

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