Editing Microsoft OneNote (section)

== Overview ==
OneNote was announced by Microsoft's [[Bill Gates]] on November 17, 2002.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2002-11-17 |title=Bill Gates Announces Microsoft OneNote, a New Application To Make Note-Taking More Productive |url=https://news.microsoft.com/2002/11/17/bill-gates-announces-microsoft-onenote-a-new-application-to-make-note-taking-more-productive/ |access-date=2022-10-23 |website=Stories |language=en-US}}</ref> The software allows users to create notes that can include text, pictures, tables, and drawings. Unlike a word processor, OneNote features an almost unbounded document window, in which users can click anywhere on the canvas to create a new text box at that location. OneNote saves data automatically as the user edits the file.

OneNote saves information in ''pages'' organized into ''sections'' within ''notebooks''. Microsoft designed this [[user interface]] to resemble a tabbed [[ring binder]], in which the user can directly make notes and gather material from other [[application software|applications]]. OneNote notebooks collect, organize, and share possibly unpublished materials—as compared to [[word processor]]s and [[wiki]]s, which often target publishing in some way. The difference shows in certain OneNote features and characteristics:

* Pages can be arbitrarily large
* There is no enforced uniform page layout or structure.

Users can move pages in the binder and annotate them with a [[stylus]] or word-processing or drawing tools. Users may add embedded multimedia recordings and [[hyperlink]]s. They can also add embeddable content, such as [[YouTube]] videos.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/embed-content-in-onenote-fd5abf7d-abd4-4902-8e5f-93088c45b11d#:~:text=You%20can%20embed%20a%20wide,Adobe%20Spark|title=Embed content in OneNote|access-date=October 1, 2020|archive-date=November 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113164256/https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/embed-content-in-onenote-fd5abf7d-abd4-4902-8e5f-93088c45b11d#:~:text=You%20can%20embed%20a%20wide,Adobe%20Spark|url-status=live}}</ref> OneNote also integrates search features and indexing into a free-form graphics and audio repository. It can search pictures (e.g., screen captures, embedded document scans, photographs) for depictions of text. It also searches "electronic ink" annotations as text and phonetically searches audio recordings on a text key. It can replay audio concurrently with notes taken during the recording. It can also extract and copy texts from pictures and documents using [[Optical character recognition|optical character-recognition]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/copy-text-from-pictures-and-file-printouts-using-ocr-in-onenote-93a70a2f-ebcd-42dc-9f0b-19b09fd775b4|title=Copy text from pictures and file printouts using OCR in OneNote|access-date=October 1, 2020|archive-date=November 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101140015/https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/copy-text-from-pictures-and-file-printouts-using-ocr-in-onenote-93a70a2f-ebcd-42dc-9f0b-19b09fd775b4|url-status=live}}</ref>

Its multi-user capability allows [[offline]] editing with later [[synchronization]] and merging. More than one person can work on the same page at the same time using OneNote as a shared [[whiteboard]] environment.

On March 17, 2014, Microsoft released the OneNote cloud service [[Windows API|API]], which allows third-party application developers to integrate the service into their apps. The API runs on Microsoft's globally available cloud and sends data from applications into the user's OneDrive. OneNote can render webpages as snapshot images.<ref name="onenote for free everywhere"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Getting started with the OneNote service API|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn575425.aspx#sectionSection1|work=Office Dev Center|publisher=Microsoft|access-date=March 25, 2014|archive-date=March 20, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140320030127/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn575425.aspx#sectionSection1|url-status=live}}</ref>

Microsoft also announced several new features in OneNote that use the service API: 
*'''OneNote Clipper''': A browser [[bookmarklet]], which uses the OneNote service API and enables users to save a screenshot of a webpage to OneNote along with the URL. The text in the screenshot is searchable.<ref>{{cite web|title=Clip the web, right to OneNote|url=https://www.onenote.com/Clipper/OneNote|publisher=Microsoft|access-date=March 25, 2014|archive-date=March 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322142101/https://www.onenote.com/Clipper/OneNote|url-status=live}}</ref>
*'''Email to OneNote''': A feature enabling users to send emails to the address <code>me@onenote.com</code> from specified email IDs to have the contents of the email saved to OneNote.<ref>{{cite web|title=Email Settings|url=https://www.onenote.com/emailsettings?fromAR=1|access-date=March 25, 2014|archive-date=January 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124171059/https://www.onenote.com/hrd?ReturnUrl=https:%2f%2fwww.onenote.com%2fEmailSettings|url-status=live}}</ref>