Comment by recoiledsnake | Hacker News Reader

Comment by recoiledsnake | Hacker News Reader

Can anyone guess how much percentage of spreadsheets, documents etc. are actually created on smartphones and tablets versus PCs and Macs? I would put that in the low single digits.

How long does it take and how much does it cost them make a version of Office? Maybe they already have it in progress. They have been recently releasing apps for iOS and Android.

Interesting, people have been predicting the end of MS anytime soon since more than a decade on Slashdot. Meanwhile, they keep getting record profits. This is nothing but feel good linkbait for the Apple fans to lap up.

Meanwhile, the face that they released OneNote for Android and iOS is totally lost in the brouhaha.

After all, this is a site where Gruber and Sieger get top billing but Paul Thurrotts Winsupersite is shadowbanned totally from even appearing on the site, probably due to sensitive fans' excessive flagging.

If the tables were turned, we would be hearing endlessly about how Microsoft takes 75% of the web server profits, even if Apache and nginx are ahead in marketshare.

"This is nothing but feel good linkbait for the Apple fans to lap up."

"After all, this is a site where Gruber and Sieger get top billing but Paul Thurrotts Winsupersite is shadowbanned totally from even appearing on the site, probably due to sensitive fans' excessive flagging."

Those are not substantial critiques, those are insults. Those are bad contributions to the discourse here and make you look like an asshole.

"They have been recently releasing apps for iOS and Android ... they released OneNote for Android and iOS"

Much better.

I tried OneNote in university and I just didn't "get it". Can someone explain?

I have 2 use cases for notes - short term stuff I need in the next day and longer term notes I might need for 6 months+. The first I used to do with something like the "stickies" applet in Linux - eventually I found those to be too much trouble to maintain/delete and moved to a paper notebook. The latter case I keep in plain text files. When I tried OneNote it seemed to have a horribly complicated interface and I didn't understand what it added to the equation.

I think One Note lets you easily¹ import content from websites, documents, etc. into a note, and then lets you store notes in pages, so you could e.g. have a page about a topic you're researching with some articles, a diagram, some handwritten notes, etc.

I just use textfiles and directories, though.

¹ I think it adds a global keyboard shortcut to launch the tool.

Maybe the release of OneNote has been lost, but does anyone really care about it? I think I had it installed as part of Office the whole time I was at my previous job but never ever used it for anything. Word and Excel may or may not be important, but I doubt there can be many people who would ditch Office completely except for OneNote.

There is actually a huge amount of OneNote users out there. For note taking apps, it usually comes down to Evernote or OneNote.

And no "textpad/notepad/vim" option? What about simply taking notes in your email/calendar client so you can add recipients and send/schedule?

I don't know anyone (even in the past 10 years) who's ever mentioned using OneNote.

Easy there tiger! None of what you mentioned is dedicated note taking apps, though they of course might be used for the purpose.

The "I don't know anyone who use is so it doesn't exist" argument doesn't really hold. The only time I've heard of anyone using Vim was 12 years ago. That was a guy with very long, very dark hair who didn't talk much.

Does this mean Vim is not widely used? Of course not. It just means I don't work with people using Vim.

Look around the web for OneNote resources, I'm sure you'll find plenty.

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