People are more overwhelmed than ever by how much they need to
remember on a daily basis. In fact, according to a 2013 survey
commissioned by the Post-it brand, the average person forgets 4
important things every day, or 1460 things every year. That’s a lot of
valuable information! The fact is, keeping track of everything so that
it is where you want it, when you want it is still an unsolved problem
for many.
OneNote can help you keep track of life and stay organized by making it easy to capture anything, enrich and organize it, and eventually recall it when and where you need it.
Today, we’re introducing two big improvements for capturing content into OneNote and enriching that content to make it easier to recall.
First, we’ve added handwriting to OneNote for iPad. This has been a top
requested feature, and is now available in OneNote across all of the
most popular platforms, including our favorite, the Surface Pro 3.
Second, we’ve added optical character recognition (OCR), which enables
text search within all images that are added to notebooks saved on
OneDrive. OCR works with any version of OneNote, from Windows Phone to
Mac, even OneNote Online!
Capture: Handwriting and drawing for iPad
As many of you have pointed out, one major feature that has been missing from OneNote for iPad is handwriting. With today’s update,
you can pen notes in all OneNote apps for tablets, including OneNote,
OneNote for Windows Store, OneNote for Android and now OneNote for iPad.
To get started on iPad, just tap the new Draw tab on the ribbon. Select a pen, marker, or highlighter and write, sketch or doodle until your heart’s content.
OneNote for Windows has supported inking since 2003, and we’re
constantly working to make our interface more natural for note-takers.
OneNote for iPad reflects lessons we’ve learned over the years from
studying and understanding how people use pens. For example, when you
look at the Draw tab, you might notice that color plays an important
role. We have continually found that serious note-takers just love their
colors. And not-so-serious note-takers like them too!
Many students color-code their notes in class. They’ll take a paper
notebook and an array of colored pens with them to class to write,
circle, highlight and underline in a variety of colors. So in OneNote
for iPad, we give you four classic pen colors front-and-center. And if
that’s not enough, just tap the color wheel to display 16 more! Surely
you’ll find your favorite.
OneNote also gives you the benefit of an endless digital canvas. When
you’re writing, you’ll never run out of space. OneNote automatically
expands pages as you type or write so you always have more room for
fresh ideas. When you’re writing, just use two fingers to scroll the
page. And unlike paper, you can pinch to zoom in and to work on the
small details, or zoom out to get the big picture.
If you have a stylus, go ahead and just rest your hand on the screen
as you write. OneNote for iPad detects your palm so that you can write
without worrying. The best part? It works with any stylus whether you’re
left-handed or right-handed. To set it up, just tap Palm Rejection on the ribbon and then tap the image that most closely resembles how you normally hold a pen.
Enrich and Recall: Search for text within images
More and more, people are capturing images of receipts, recipes,
menus and shopping lists into OneNote with mobile scanner apps like
Office Lens and Genius Scan. In addition, people often use the share extension to capture websites, PDFs and phone screenshots.
With today’s update, text within any image inserted into a notebook
saved on OneDrive will be searchable in OneNote on all PCs, phones and
tablets, as well as OneNote Online. Once added, the OneNote service will
process it and it will start showing up in search results typically
within a few minutes.
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