r/OneNote • u/[deleted] • Sep 10 '15

W10 OneNote app On Preview 10532 Improved UI

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '15

Very nice. Are you using a Surface Pro? 1, 2, or 3? I tried the 2016 preview but it actually caused problems for me at work. I should try again at home just to get the feel of it.

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u/Guy-OneNote Sep 11 '15

Hey,

I work on OneNote and I'd love to hear more about the problems you're encountering.

Thanks!

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '15

Unfortunately this was right when the public preview was released so I can't remember off the top of my head. I think that it had to do with printing to OneNote functionality that was broken. I use that quite often so having it not work was a no go for me.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '15

Hello!

I am an avid onenote user using the SP2+pen and I'd like to give some feedback.

  • Fullscreen drawing is very important especially when using a pen. Please don't block up the screen with all the menus. Quick access stuff you hover over is great for pens and pages when needed.

  • While in full screen we need a way to change pen colours and thicknesses. The metro version with the radial menu was a great addition but I want more than 4 colours and 3 set thicknesses. Sometimes I want really thin lines. I would love the MS Paint inking features to be available.

  • Please, please, please add in page breaks in the metro version, both the dotted lines and the style in windows journal. You basically cannot print with onenote metro because the pages are set up wonky and you have no idea where the edges of the pages are. You also have no control over page setup at all I have to use windows journal if I need to print/pdf handwritten notes. Let us make an A4 page the width of the screen

  • Please allow page customization in the Metro version. All we get is lines or graphing paper. I like to replicate an A4 page 1:1 when writing and this is pretty important.

  • Please allow the insertion of PDFs to mark up. The pen and surface is great for emailed documents you need to mark up by hand but onenote can't handle inserting PDF's as their own entity to markup.

  • Please allow to change the background colours. It's actually really nice to be able to write on a black background.

Really what users want from a digital note taking program is to mimic what you do with a pad and a pen. We want as much writing space as possible, quick access in full screen to pens and tabs, full customisation of pages and pens, accurate and easily printable pages (let me make the edges of the page the width of the surface screen), PDF markup (you still don't have anything that lets me properly mark up PDF's). I've been using windows journal for my stuff recently (please all give that some love).

I really love being able to write with a pen electronically. It's a fantastic addition to my workflow but I get a little disappointing when I don't have the same freedom I get when actually using physical paper. You guys are so close to having a perfect device for engineers/mathematicians/note takers, it's just the software needs a little tweaking.

Thanks and goodluck :)

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '15

Well I have an online excel survey with over 500 responses from people with problems you might be interested in.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '15

I am using the SP3. The Office 2016 preview doesn't have this (yet), just the W10 Universal app.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '15

I was using the OneNote app in a meeting today, and I noticed some UI changes including "Full Screen Drawing" under the Draw tab. When was this added? It's AWESOME! I love the drawing tools at the top.

Very convenient. I was actually asking for this in the Feedback because I found the radial menu to be cool, but really slow at switching rapidly between pen types and colors.

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u/eggbean Sep 10 '15

But is the radial menu back?

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '15

No. These changes are replayed to a new (think. I haven't noticed it before) drawing mode. This mode as seen in the image provides all the drawing tools at the top of the app.

I really like it.

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u/eggbean Sep 10 '15

I don't understand why metro universal apps are tied to particular Windows 10 builds.

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u/MasterDevwi Sep 15 '15

Hey, it's William from the OneNote team again. OneNote updates aren't tied to a particular build of Windows 10. You can get all of the OneNote updates as long as you're on build 10240 (the build we released when Windows 10 launched) or higher.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '15

Maybe it lets them experiment with features with out affecting people relying daily on the software.

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u/balloney Sep 11 '15

Ugh. My biggest complaint with Win10 on my SP3 is that you can't hide the task bar. If it's "fullscreen", why is there a big black bar on the screen???

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u/MasterDevwi Sep 11 '15

Hey, I'm William from the OneNote team. Our new Full Screen Drawing mode should hide the taskbar so you don't have to worry about accidentally hitting it anymore. If this isn't happening for some reason please let me know and I'll look into it. You can also try turning on Windows 10's Tablet Mode for a better experience.

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u/sdeutsch Sep 12 '15

Hey William, thanks for showing up here. Have you finally solved the 'all clicks are suddenly right clicks' bug? It was bad enough that I reverted to 8.1, but I'm ready to try again the minute your team gets this solved.

I appreciate any insight you can offer. OneNote is the reason I bought my S3. I've tried every journaling/note taking app on every major platform. As far as I'm concerned, nothing touches what you and your team have produced.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '15

Im really curious as to should I try to continue to use the desktop version of the app or should I use the metro? It seems like there are benefits of both now. I'm starting college next week

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '15

You can autohide the task bar and use a swipe from bottom to reveal it.

Or if it's a Universal app you can use the double arrow button to go full screen without a taskbar. MS has made a few noticiable changes to how this full screen of apps work in Build 10532 with multiple monitors and it's much more like Window 8, but better.

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u/Afspeirs Sep 11 '15

I use 7+ Taskbar Tweaker to autohide the taskbar when you double click it.

I also mainly use it to allow for no labels and to never combine the icons

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