Starting today, OneNote Mobile for iPhone helps free your ideas

Partial view of OneNote on iPhoneIf you use an iPhone, now you can experience the organizing power of OneNote right there. Starting today, you can download Microsoft OneNote Mobile for iPhone from the iTunes App Store, and it's free for a limited time. (Here's how to install it and get started.)

In case you haven't experienced the unsung hero of Office, OneNote is a digital notebook that lets you put everything you need to remember in one electronic place and then easily find it wherever you are. I use it every day. Think of it as a digital file cabinet for all the random bits of information that are too hard to keep track of in your head. According to comScore, 78 million PCs in the U.S. have OneNote - more than a third of all the PCs in the country.

OneNote Mobile for the iPhone lets you capture and review notes and lists on your phone. Notes are automatically backed up and synced with free Windows Live SkyDrive online storage, so that you can access them from virtually anywhere - your PC, phone, and browser. Collecting thoughts and ideas on the go is what OneNote was made for. 

People who use OneNote often wonder how they ever lived without it. It gets some of the highest customer satisfaction ratings of any app. For me, OneNote is where I collect and organize notes, ideas, links to websites and pictures. It can also capture handwriting, audio recordings and video clips. From my PC, the easy-to-search format means any of these tidbits of information are always at hand. Online or on my phone, my lists are always up to date and accessible for reference. Now iPhone users can have many of the same advantages as their Windows Phone counterparts.

We know people care more about what they do than where they do it. They expect technology to make that easier. They want familiarity and for things to just work. As new pieces of technology - new browsers, mobile hardware, smart phones and social networks - become bigger parts of their lives, they expect familiar technology, like Office, to help them access their ideas wherever they are. Today's release is another step in Office evolving to serve our 750 million customers worldwide. Whether it's on a PC or Mac, a mobile phone, or online through the Office Web Apps on multiple browsers, we continue to bring Office to the devices, platforms, and operating systems our customers are using. It should be about the ideas and information, not the device, right?

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Whether you're managing your to do list, organizing a complex project, or planning a trip to Paris, OneNote Mobile helps keep everything organized and easy to find.

OneNote Mobile for iPhone is available now and it's free for a limited time, so why not try it?

Read A first look at Microsoft OneNote on the iPhone to see how to install, start, use, and sync the new app.

--Takeshi Numoto, Corporate Vice President, Office

 


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  • @Gingerthreads. Great question. Here's a nice post on how to sync your notebooks to Windows Live SkyDrive for easy access from your iPhone: office.microsoft.com/.../share-notebooks-in-onenote-2010-HA010386952.aspx

  • Great to see that OneNote is expanding to other platforms (even if it's the iphone...). But, why should your own OS (Windows Phone 7) miss out on the cool features that you write for a *competitors* OS - e.g. timestamps (on top of the page) and tagging!

    Well, at least we (WP7) have support for tables & recording audio!

  • So when is this being released out side the US ?

    Need this asap in the Australian app store

    then I can stop using mobile noter and have proper one note support.

    Whens the ipad version coming ?

  • @david950 - Just a heads up that you can use the OneNote Web App on your Internal SharePoint server with OneNote notebooks.  In fact when I am using my Mac at work I access my notebooks through the browser.  The OneNote Web App works with Safari, Firefox and IE so on my Mac I typically use Safari.  I need to make sure I am running SharePoint 2010 for the Web Apps to work.  But otherwise everything works just fine in the browser.

  • Why not in europe? why?

  • Please... release this beyond merely the US App Store. You're a global company - this should be reflected in the app's availability.

  • Can I also add my voice to those calling for this to be released outside the US.  The 'Bing' app still hasn't been released for other markets, and given that it -and this new OneNote app- are in English, I wouldn't have thought it would be too difficult to start pushing this out to English speaking markets pretty quickly, and then localize for other regions.

  • Well, as I can see, it doesn't provide a possibility to load local notebooks to the iPhone, like MobileNoter does?

  • But why?  I  made a horrible mistake when I switched to a Mac.  I  never imagined that there would be no OneNote for Mac. I do not understand why now, OneNote is available for an iPhone. Does this mean a version for OSX is to come? Google has not made a web app like OneNote yet, so maybe Microsoft will give us this software.

  • Wonderful I have been looking for this for quite some time !!!  But It is not accessible from the Irish App store.  Please make this happen as soon as possible.  It is even more frustrating to know this is now available but not to me!!  Can you assure us that this is being looked at by someone who can make it happen?

  • @AmandaL@Microsoft

    US problem overcome. The link to the workaround may be wrong.  Grateful if you could repost

  • I'm another OneNote user requesting an Android version.

  • So, when do Windows Phone 7 users get even the smallest features you included this but omitted from the MS platform, like check boxes?

  • I'm also another OneNote user requesting an Android version. Currently, I have to use Evernote in order to do many of the things that I wish I can do on my Droid X

  • @bkeyes - The workaround to the login error that some customers are getting can be found on the Microsoft Answers Forums here: social.answers.microsoft.com/.../10b4c78d-1a9b-4f22-9c69-393207a370fa

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