To get a better understanding of how OneNote allows for powerful organization, I’ll explain my process. Text is organized into textboxes that can be resized and moved and placed anywhere.

Of course beyond these tabs, and the ribbon, the real meat of the app is simply your notebook page – where you can feel free to type, or draw, or write away as you need. Digging one step deeper, within the sections you can then also add individual pages to keep even more organized. You then have section tabs within your notebook, which is reminiscent of the different tabbed sections in one of those College spiral notebook you would never manage to fill by the end of the semester. You start off with just that – a Notebook, and you can create as many as you need, say one per project, or one per subject. OneNote feels more like a notebook, because it organizes itself like that. The overall design of OneNote is colorful, with easy to distinguish independent sections that make the platform easy to utilize and organize.

From the home tab to change your text options, a view tab to password protect notes or change your paper type, and even a draw tab to play around with a number of pen and marker settings – the ribbon is a great tool to keep a vast number of functions organized in one small section. Already used in the Office Suite, the ribbon houses essentially all of your functionality for the app. OneNote’s interface and layout feel familiar and welcoming, and anyone that has used any modern Microsoft platforms will instant recognize one of the more important aspects here – the ribbon.

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