Microsoft OneNote: Save Notes

A flexible place for notes

Microsoft OneNote is a productivity app for writing, collecting and organising information in digital notebooks. It suits students, office workers, researchers and anyone who needs more room than a simple checklist provides. Notes are arranged into notebooks, sections and pages, making it practical for keeping projects, meeting records, study material and personal lists together.

More than typed text

OneNote supports several ways to capture information. You can type notes, add images, record voice dictation, draw with a finger or stylus, and scan documents or whiteboards. Its free-form pages let you place text, pictures and sketches where they make sense instead of forcing every note into a single fixed layout. Scanned text can also be made searchable through optical character recognition.

Useful across Microsoft devices

The app is most at home with people who already use Microsoft 365 or other Microsoft software. Notes can be organised for quick reference on a phone and continued on a larger screen, while connections with services such as Word, Excel and Samsung Notes make it easier to keep information within the wider Microsoft ecosystem. The notebook structure is powerful for long-term organisation, though it can feel more involved than a basic notes app when you only want to jot down one thought.

Scale and reception

With a 4.63 rating from more than 1.46 million reviews and over 500 million installs, OneNote has a broad Android user base. It is developed by Microsoft Corporation and is a sensible choice when you want one app for quick captures, handwritten material and substantial, structured notebooks.