New Design of OneNote App
One of the classic mistakes any OEM can do is to make two products of similar purposes and treat them differently. This may anger the community using them, who put similar resources and time into those products and get different results.
Microsoft’s story about the OneNote app is a similar story, where it offers a UWP version and a Win32 app of the OneNote app currently. The company seriously wanted users to use the UWP version for all their OneNote needs, thus stopping bundling it with the Office suite for years.
This update revamped the navigational UI layout of the sidebar, which now shows all the sections and notebooks by default. Also, the syncing has been greatly improved. The OneNote app now feels snappy and has rounded corners, with added support for the Ruler feature.
Ruler is a previously available feature only to the OneNote (UWP) for Windows 10, workable on touch-enabled devices. More like touch and pen support are yet to come. Well, Microsoft said it’s rolling out the update to those in Office Insider Program’s Beta Channel, and more to come soon.
