OneNote Android: How to manage cards on home screen?

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An the beginning, we sincerely thank you for your love and support of OneNote. It is true that the features of OneNote on Windows and Android are a little different, and it is inevitable that you will have various problems when you first encounter the different operating systems. But don't worry, I'll help you to deal with the problems you encounter when using OneNote for Android.

As for the card about OneNote on the home screen you mentioned, could you take a screenshot and send it to me? Maybe I can get more clues.

Also, I tested based on your description and found that when I add a specific page to the home screen, it makes a OneNote card appear on the Android page, and if that's the case, there could be multiple OneNote cards appearing on the Android home screen, wenn i add many pages to home screen.

Thanks for your close cooperation and patience. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Have a nice day and stay safe!

Best regards,

Olivia | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

Olivia,

Thanks for the response. I really hope you can shed some light on this. And I wouldn't mind in the slightest if you could point me to a manual where I can read up on it myself. I'm from an era of RTFM (read the f'ing manual)

but unfortunately it seems written documentation is mostly a thing of the past.

I think we're confusing terms here, and clearly the OneNote app does as well. When I was referring to "home screen," I was specifically referring to the 'Home' view I see when I first open the OneNote app on my cell phone. See pic.

The OneNote app's opening screen is where the 'cards' exist that I'm referring to. Each one is a shortcut to a specific page within my OneNote instance. This has nothing to do with widgets placed on my device's "home screen," which confusingly enough is what happens when you select 'Add to Home screen' from a drop-down on a particular OneNote page within the app. That is, OneNote creates a widget on the device home screen rather than adding a note 'card' to the OneNote app's opening view (which would be my preference).

I rather like the idea of being able to quickly open a frequently used OneNote page by tapping the card on the opening screen rather than having to drill down each time in the 'Notebooks' view (accessed by swiping left on that opening view), but I'd sure like to decide what cards are displayed. In my particular case, the first 3 cards are reasonable (I use them all the time), but the rest are rather random, and some are dead and no longer even valid.

I've not yet stumbled on any combination of press, long press, swipe, etc. that manipulates the actual cards. I can delete an actual OneNote page by long-press to select the card, then tap the trash can at the top, but that just leaves a dead card on home page. That is, the page is now gone, but the card still remains and now pops an error message that the page can't be found.

I'll stop here, but glad to provide any other feedback or clarification needed. Thx for your help!

Mark

Hey Mark,

thanks for your update and information. I'm very sorry that I may have misunderstood your question since I started the test on a Samsung tablet. On the Samsung tablet OneNote is in normal display mode and not set to card mode, so I thought you were getting a lot of OneNote cards on the Android home screen, so I'm sorry for the inaccurate tip.

I checked OneNote using my colleague's Pixel phone and found the same page display on both of you, I checked the settings and didn't find any setting to modify the display. So, I think, based on what I've known so far, it's the design of OneNote for Pixel that should make it happen: the main page is presented as many cards.