Microsoft OneNote

Microsoft OneNote or Microsoft Office OneNote, is a software package for free-form information gathering, and multi-user collaboration. OneNote's interface is an electronic version of the familiar tabbed three-ring binder which can be used directly for making notes, but also to gather "pages" printed or sent from other applications. Pages can be moved inside the binder, annotated with a stylus, word-processing or drawing tools. Users may add embedded multimedia recordings and web links. As a container and repository of information gleaned from a variety of sources.OneNote is most commonly used on laptops or desktop PCs, it has additional features for use on pen-enabled Tablet PCs, in environments where pen, audio or video notes are more appropriate than an intensive use of keyboards. OneNote notebook is used for organizing information for a course or a research project. OneNote's file format (.one) is proprietary. The published API has resulted in a small number of extensions being written. One of OneNote's innovations is the integration of search features and indexing into a freeform graphics and audio repository. Images can be searched for embedded text content. Electronic ink annotations can also be searched as text. Audio recordings can also be searched phonetically by giving a text key, and can be replayed concurrently with the notes taken during the recording. Its multi-user capability allows offline editing and later synchronization and merging at the paragraph level. This makes it a tool for workgroups that collaborate on research whose members are not always online. OneNote is designed as a collaborative tool and allows more than one person to work on the same page at the same time - making it a shared whiteboard tool as well. OneNote was originally marketed by Microsoft as a companion to Tablet PCs and it has support for pen interfaces as noted above. However, many people have recognized its use as a general note-taking platform and it is widely used in education by both students and teachers.

Microsoft OneNote Mobile for Smartphones as well as Pocket PCs (Microsoft Windows Mobile 5 and higher) is included with Microsoft OneNote 2007; Microsoft OneNote Mobile is also built-in to the Microsoft Windows Mobile Professional 6.1 operating system. Microsoft OneNote supports Microsoft Live Mesh which allows Cloud-based storage and syncronization of OneNote files that permit their editing and viewing by any OneNote client including Office Online. Microsoft OneNote 2007 also supports simultaneous editing without any locking of shared OneNote documents by multiple users when the document is stored in a shared folder,Live Mesh or Dropbox.