I thought that I may have found an option that would allow me to drop Evernote completely, and even retire TheBrain (which I like, but which can be a little clunky and stodgy at times). Everything looked peachy - the notebook I had created on my MacBook Pro synced beautifully with ON13 on my PC. I was excited by the opportunity to upgrade for free to ON 2013, and did so. On my Windows PC at work, I’ve been using OneNote 2010, which I paid for. Still, I could have lived with that, since I could use Outline to read my OneNote files and make edits to the text. So that was the first mark against a universal OneNote. I have avoided upgrading the Air to Mavericks, because I regret having done so with the MB Pro, since that computer runs much slower since the upgrade, often grinding to a halt at times. But then I tried to install OneNote on my MacBook Air, and found I couldn’t, because OneNote requires OS 10.9 (also known as Mavericks). There are certainly many others - I haven’t checked, but I doubt the Mac version offers OCR of scanned text, for example.īut I could live with those limitations, because most of the key ones are there, including the same easy-to-build tables. Sure, there are a lot of the Windows version features missing from the Mac version. So I first loaded it on my MacBook Pro, and everything looked great. But, of course, I had to download the latest versions, not only because I am a CRIMPer and I can’t help myself, but because I am a fan of OneNote for Windows. I then started to have reservations that revolved around my concern that having such a behemoth free on all these platforms would suppress innovation by smaller developers, and that terrific apps like MagicalPad and Outline would wither on the vine. When I learned that Microsoft was going to be offering its note-keeping flagship application OneNote free, not only for Windows, but also for Mac and iPad, I was initially happy.
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