You create notebooks for certain topics or tasks and within those notebooks you create sections. OneNote is all about organization but on your terms. You won’t be saving your notes locally, you’ll be saving them in the Cloud. If you don’t have a OneDrive account you’ll get 7GB of OneDrive storage when you sign up for a free one. To use OneNote for the Mac you’ll need to connect up to OneDrive. OneDrive, formerly Skydrive, is Microsoft’s Cloud syncing and storage system. The same is true for Sharepoint in the Enterprise market. If you haven’t figured it out by now, OneDrive is the glue that is holding Microsoft’s consumer facing mobile strategy together. Read: Office for the iPad: Review OneNote and OneDrive Microsoft now has versions of OneNote available for Windows, iOS, Android, and OS X. But for Mac users it offers a nice way to collect and keep notes and then sync them for viewing on their mobile devices. The Mac version leaves out enough features that Windows OneNote users will surely miss. In my opinion it is one of the finest pieces of software to ever come out of Microsoft. On the Windows platform it is an elegant and powerful tool.
I’ve always maintained that OneNote was a secret weapon that Microsoft wanted to keep secret. That said, OneNote for the Mac is worth taking a look at if you use it on other platforms and want to view your notes on a MacBook or iMac. In fact it pales in comparison when you examine features. It’s not as full featured as the Windows versions of OneNote, or its direct competitor Evernote. But a couple of weeks before that, Microsoft made a flanking move in the cross platform wars and released a version of OneNote for the Mac. The big news about that was the release for Office Apps for the iPad last week. Microsoft is on a cross platform tear these days and that’s a good thing.
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