Windows 10 OneNote app sucks.

Nobody makes decisions this dumb without ulterior motives. It's an abomination. The only reason there's not more outrage is because Microsoft blew it on marketing OneNote in the first place. Most people don't even know what OneNote is -- or they just didn't get it at first. The first time I saw it being used, the power of this tool was self-evident -- and it changed my life that day (both on a professional and personal level).

The only satisfaction I find is this is knowing that there are others out there who feel the same. I thought you'd appreciate this one below.

And on that note -- I'm regularly taking screenshots of these comments and sending them to the CEO at Microsoft (as well as Bill Gates and some others). I know it's an exercise in futility, but I have to try.

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Is it me or is the new OneNote for Windows 10 terrible?

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Microsoft are doing an absolutely abysmal job. In order to compete with Apple and Google, ba***rds are forcing customers to opt for nonsense applications across devices. Absolutely crappy decision and unnecessary decision making.

Agree 100 %.  I have been using One Note since its inception.  There is a lot of personal content I NEVER want to store in the cloud.  When I recently updated to Office 365 Personal it installed the Windows 10 version of One Note.  I could no longer open or use my stored One Note folders without uploading them to One Note.  NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!  When will Microsoft understand people do not trust putting personal information in the cloud.  

MICROSOFT please listen to me.  Keep the desktop One Note alive and updated for those of us who do not store anything personal in the cloud and never will.  I have a personal server where I store all my content.  I do not need One Drive nor will I ever use it.  Millennials may flock to your new way of managing content but there are millions of users out there who still store their files locally where they are 100% safe from theft.

Please fix this.

It should have an option to have local notebooks as well as notebooks fully on the cloud.

But the worst of all is that some features of old Desktop One Note are not available in the new One Note. One of these features is related the possibility of printing files. Cut and Paste does not work (you have to drag and drop, which is terrible if you are using a small screen), some files cannot be printed (only attached), and, last but very very important, when I edit a printed file (word, Power point, etc) and I save the file it does not refresh the printing. 

Please Microsoft solve the problems above asap.

Jonas Gomes

I too have been a long time OneNote user since it's inception. The tool got better and better with each version release and then, BOOM...MS stripped this great tool, slapped the sappy 2019 look and then tried to pan this off as the future improved.

The search function sucks. You do a search, click back into the search field and the text won't clear when I type my next word. I have to do a special workaround...a WORKAROUND FOR THE SEARCH BOX TO WORK LIKE IT DOES IN ONENOTE 2016!

Please fix this issue Microsoft. This release of OneNote does not suffice.

I feel your pain -- and that's awesome that you've been on board with OneNote since the start.

But don't give up hope. For one thing, you can still download OneNote 2016 for free on Microsoft's site (they are purposely not advertising this so that they can steer people into this nightmare on Windows 10). Here's the link:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/install-or-reinstall-onenote-2016-for-windows-c08068d8-b517-4464-9ff2-132cb9c45c08

I've been hammering Microsoft on this for quite a while and I'm gonna keep at it. Anyway, you can download it from the link above and keep on doing things exactly as you like. Lemme know if you have any questions.

Agree 100 %.  I have been using One Note since its inception.  There is a lot of personal content I NEVER want to store in the cloud.  When I recently updated to Office 365 Personal it installed the Windows 10 version of One Note.  I could no longer open or use my stored One Note folders without uploading them to One Note.  NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!  When will Microsoft understand people do not trust putting personal information in the cloud.  

MICROSOFT please listen to me.  Keep the desktop One Note alive and updated for those of us who do not store anything personal in the cloud and never will.  I have a personal server where I store all my content.  I do not need One Drive nor will I ever use it.  Millennials may flock to your new way of managing content but there are millions of users out there who still store their files locally where they are 100% safe from theft.

Please fix this.

"stripped this great tool, slapped the sappy 2019 look and then tried to pan this off as the future improved."

Nicely done! Indeed, it is an abomination in software design -- and there is no measure for my disgust in Microsoft's stupidity on this matter. Have you ever seen this -- this guy was a OneNote product manager and wrote this about Windows 10 OneNote. It's just absolute BS and has no bearing on reality in any dimension.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Blog/The-best-version-of-OneNote-on-Windows/ba-p/183974

I too have been a long time OneNote user since it's inception. The tool got better and better with each version release and then, BOOM...MS stripped this great tool, slapped the sappy 2019 look and then tried to pan this off as the future improved.

The search function sucks. You do a search, click back into the search field and the text won't clear when I type my next word. I have to do a special workaround...a WORKAROUND FOR THE SEARCH BOX TO WORK LIKE IT DOES IN ONENOTE 2016!

Please fix this issue Microsoft. This release of OneNote does not suffice.

Seriously - the requirement that OneNote files MUST be int he cloud is just awful. Let ME be the one that decides that. And while you're at it, why don't you let me just move my data files to the folders I want them in. I made the mistake of "sharing" my old notebook with my corporate account on my work laptop, and now I can't move it back to my personal PC. Nightmare!!!

that is a comment that MUST be submitted to MS as a feedback. They have to have their noses rubbed in how badly OneNote Windows S U C K S the big one.  And how much users in the real world HATE IT!

“Official” MS does not pay much attention to this forum. However, you now can send your complaints and feature requests directly to MS developers and managers using one of the 4 possible “Feedback” mechanisms described in this link:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install/send-feedback-to-ms-developers/506e7654-8ced-405b-911e-c58d8f253069

Please post a share link to your feedback, back here, so other people who find your question here will be able to vote for your feedback and add their comments to it.

Collection of MS “UserVoice” web links:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows_10-desktop/ms-suggestion-box-sites-at-usdervoicecom/7397119c-6d48-49e6-8d94-7bd0a50d214f

I appreciate the info but I've been hammering Microsoft on this topic for months (in multiple channels -- including Tweets to OneNote product managers, the CEO, and Bill Gates to boot -- which all get totally ignored, naturally).

You're right -- they don't pay much attention to this forum, which is precisely to the point of all this: What a ridiculous thing to have people providing feedback that goes nowhere -- but how convenient to make them think that it might. Just how many channels and posts is it gonna take for them to wake up and recognize the glaringly obvious: That no serious user of OneNote wants anything to do with their Windows 10 toddler-level toy -- an abomination in software design.

I didn't think Microsoft could get any dumber than eliminating the Start button. Every person involved in that fiasco should have been fired. But now they go and peddle this POS UWP OneNote and try to pass it off like they're doing us a favor (which I find egregiously insulting).

I cannot imagine that any of this would have happened when Bill Gates was running the show. It seems to me like accountants are running Microsoft these days.

Seriously - the requirement that OneNote files MUST be int he cloud is just awful. Let ME be the one that decides that. And while you're at it, why don't you let me just move my data files to the folders I want them in. I made the mistake of "sharing" my old notebook with my corporate account on my work laptop, and now I can't move it back to my personal PC. Nightmare!!!

that is a comment that MUST be submitted to MS as a feedback. They have to have their noses rubbed in how badly OneNote Windows S U C K S the big one.  And how much users in the real world HATE IT!

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“Official” MS does not pay much attention to this forum. However, you now can send your complaints and feature requests directly to MS developers and managers using one of the 4 possible “Feedback” mechanisms described in this link:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install/send-feedback-to-ms-developers/506e7654-8ced-405b-911e-c58d8f253069

Please post a share link to your feedback, back here, so other people who find your question here will be able to vote for your feedback and add their comments to it.

Collection of MS “UserVoice” web links:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows_10-desktop/ms-suggestion-box-sites-at-usdervoicecom/7397119c-6d48-49e6-8d94-7bd0a50d214f

Hey! I'm an accountant, don't lump me in w/the idiots that designed the new app! I'm much smarter than that! =)

Love the "Windows 10 toddler-level", it really is a toddler version of One Note, so ridiculous.