OneNote 2016 for desktop now has the option to embed online videos via a new Online Video button. OneNote Online appears to be limited to recording audio in 90 second chunks, which is fine for capturing short snippets of speech, but not great for taking down an entire lecture.
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“Notes are saved to your Quick Notes section by default, but if you prefer to stay fully organized, don’t worry, you can also choose the notebook and section that you want your notes to go into”, explained the OneNote team in a blog post.
Microsoft has been busy improvising OneNote this month on various platforms, including added features for iPad and iPhone that we reported just a couple of weeks ago. Again Microsoft seems to imply OneNote is mostly useful for students, and gives the example of a video of a math problem with a student’s notes below. To use the feature on the Web, click Insert, then Record Audio, and finally Stop when you’re finished recording.
For iOS, OneNote now supports Force Touch, a feature that senses the level of force exerted, enabling users to create a new note or pop into Recent Notes. It’s something that isn’t available to OneNote users on other platforms, and takes advantage of a few interesting capabilities of Android.
But the Android app is getting one extra little feature that other mobile platforms can’t boast: an ever-present OneNote Badge. This means you can easily add notes while multi-tasking on Android.
Microsoft is also adding file attachment to OneNote Online so that users can attach related files to notes, perhaps taken during a meeting or webinar. This is really a no-brainer and probably should have been there from the start. If you want to keep all your files together with your notes, you can now do that from OneNote Online, just like in the apps.
Users of OneNote Online and OneNote for iOS can now record audio into a note straight from the web and mobile app. It’s an extension of similar capabilities already available on OneNote for Mac and OneNote for Windows.
Neither app is capable of linking notes to a position in the text, something that is a key feature of both the Mac and Windows desktop apps.
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