The highlighter in OneNote goes behind your ink. Despite the limited pen choices in the app, like in Apple Notes, this free app is worth trying before trying out paid options. It has improved dramatically over the years, making us question whether buying paid apps is worth it.

The handwriting experience in OneNote is very good. They are fun to use and are smoother (when writing) than plain colours. You have plenty of colours and you can even choose your own. It has five fixed pen sizes, which is not a wide variety.

It is a decent writing tool and you won’t feel like you’re missing out on anything. OneNote has one pen type, a ballpoint pen. OneNote has powerful handwriting and typing tools. There is no way to recover forgotten passwords in OneNote. Any app that offers password protection should have a way to help users recover forgotten passwords. Be careful when locking your notes because if you forget your password, those notes will remain locked forever. OneNote doesn’t protect pages and notebooks, only sections. You can password-protect the Current Section of your notes. The maximum zoom percentage in OneNote is 200%, which is not very high. Zooming in and out of your pages displays the percentage zoom on your iPad screen, which keeps your handwriting consistent when taking notes. You can view your pages at 100% zoom or fit them to the Page Width. OneNote is excellent for brainstorming and mind mapping, provided you will not export anything out of the app. The pages in OneNote will keep expanding downwards and sideways (to the right) as long as you keep writing in those directions. Pages in OneNote are infinite, therefore you can’t pick a page size. OneNote has plain, ruled and grid lines with three line-spacing and page colour options. You can choose your Paper Style under View. Creating notebooks in OneNote is fairly simple. Your notebook has Sections and Pages for organising your notes, which you can rename. The app tells you the location of your notebook, which depends on the Microsoft account you’re using. You can then rename it and choose a colour for it (from 16 possible options).

To create a new notebook, tap the + Notebook icon on the left bottom corner of the app. This review focuses on the iPad version of OneNote.

Each of these operating systems has unique features that change your user experience. It is available on all operating systems (Windows, Android, macOS, iPadOS and iOS). OneNote is a free note-taking app by Microsoft.

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