Microsoft OneNote gets Office Lens integration to capture document and whiteboard.

OneNote for Windows 10 picked up an interesting update today. The popular note-taking app gets support for scanning documents, photos and whiteboards. Sounds familiar? It should if you use Office Lens, Microsoft scanning app. I personally find this integration a great idea as I use Office Lens a lot to record my receipts in OneNote. With this integration, I get to do my record keeping all in OneNote. 

There's more to the update as listed in the change log below:

More organized notes

• Move/copy pages and sections to keep everything organized, just the way you like.
  
  Shape recognition.
• Automatically transform your drawings into shapes.
  
  Office Lens.
• Use Office Lens from inside OneNote to capture that document or whiteboard.
  
  Know who's here.
• See where others are working with you in a shared notebook.

Download: OneNote

By: blendrang sayur On 8:30:00 AM

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Microsoft OneNote for iPhone gets support for Touch 3D.

This is my second post about a Microsoft app receiving a cool update on another mobile platform, namely iOS, the Apple mobile operating system that powers the iPhone and iPad. The Microsoft app getting updated is OneNote, the note taking and to-do app.

The update adds features that cater for both phone and tablet version of iOS, especially the iPad Pro where OneNote will now support Apple Pencil letting you draw and OneNote will take care of converting hand drawn shapes "into crisp, perfectly regular polygons and circles." Better yet, line thickness will be proportional to your stroke speed. The faster you draw, the thinner the line gets. Microsoft also improved the drawing palette.

With the recent release of the iPhone 6S/6+S and their new features, Microsoft was quick to update OneNote to take advantage of one of selling points of the 6S/6+S, the Touch 3D which, basically, allow users access to a contextual menu after a long press on the app icon. With this new feature, users will be able to create new notes and access recent notes by simply doing that long press on the icon without having to open the app first.

Microsoft OneNote for iOS is available free for download in the App Store.

By: blendrang sayur On 1:19:00 AM

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Evernote gets a better note editor, picture editing in preview.

Among all note-taking apps, Evernote remains my favorite. I use on all my devices because, one, it is free and, second and most importantly, my notes sync to the cloud and are therefore available on all my devices with little to no effort. Even if cloud synching is a feature that is now native into about any apps these days, Evernote is probably a precursor.

Evernote received an update today that improves the note editor with the following features:

• Indentation (text, list, check boxes)
• In line attachments
• Table editing
• Horizontal rule support
• Layout improvement
• Edit pictures in preview
• Mask pin code on unlock.

Evernote is free to download in the Windows Phone Store.

By: blendrang sayur On 8:19:00 AM

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