OneNote on Android is in desperate need of an update!

Well, the tablet version at least.

It's lacking so many features that the Windows and iOS/iPadOS have built-in. I recently bought a Samsung Tab S6, it would be great if the Android developers of this Microsoft product spend some time in this space. This is the best Android tablet in a long time, it would be great to see some of the basic features added such as:

Insert toolbar missing features
- An insert table button !!!
- Symbols
- Math

Draw toolbar missing features
- Maths!!! draw to text equation support
- Ink to shape

Basic S Pen support would be good as well.

Please prioritize the development of these features. If not make the code open-source and ill contribute to the project :P

Hi, I'm using Galaxy Tab S4 and I'm facing an issue. Whenever I write the ink shifts slightly and sometimes a lot. It is clearly noticeable. Please guide me what to do.

I'm using app version : 16.0.11929.20126 (which is the latest as of this date)

Updated on: Aug 18, 2019

FunFact: This issue does not happen when I use the older version of OneNote i.e. of January 2017 (yes that old) but that version has a lag in handwriting and also not as smooth as the newer ones. But yeah that does not have this ink shifting issue.

Here is my screenrecording of the issue:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10hxbsSdGiS4Dxh-AES2wBjVV-0afZQ/view?usp=drivesdk

I have contacted on the OneNote Community and there they told me to post it here. Please resolve it.

There are alot need of improvement for android tablet devices. When IOS get a great onenote apps for theirs ipad, why cant microsoft to make a onenote apps for android tablets thats as great as IOS? im currently using the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 and i found out that the onenote apps sucks on many perspective:

1. The name of the notebook didnt sync correctly as the one on my Windows 10 laptop.




2. The drawing pen on the "draw" tab. There's only few selection of colours and the size of the pen cannot be selected equally to the other pen as ipad has those 5 size to choose from.




3. There's only 2 high lighter WHICH cannot be changed of the colour. There should be a "plus" sign on the end to enable to add pens and highlighters.




4. ON the "View" tab , there's only 2 selection whereas IOS has much more. Under the selection of "paper", i can only choose either rule lines, grid lines and hide lines. i cannot choose the size of those lines which makes me frustrate.




5. There's no way to turn off pressure sensitivity of the stylus.




6. I have to press "Stop" in the "Draw" tab so that i can write something on onenote.




7. Printout cannot be sized together and has to be sized one by one.




8. Add page size option like A4 size so that i can print it out nicely.




9. Android audio recording only 3mins long while IOS is unlimited.




10. Insert space function does not have in android.




11. Ink to shape.

I know that many user would like to have IOS, ipad similar onenote to fully utilise the app.

The OneNote app for Android is horrible in comparison to the Windows 10 version. I am an engineering student and I have used the Windows 10 version and absolutely loved it. However, I recently started using a Samsung Tab S3 and I have realized the Android version is absolutely terrible compared to the Windows 10 version. The following are my reasons:

1. The button on the S Pen is not able to be used as an eraser which, when having to take quick notes, is an inconvenience.




2. The pen options are absolutely laughable, there is plenty of space to add more pens which should be able to be the same colors as the Windows 10 version.




3. There are only TWO highlighter colors available and this is not acceptable when going through 50+ PowerPoint slides.




4. The only erase option is "full line eraser", there is no "erase piece of line" eraser.

I, and I am sure many other students, would Greatly appreciate making the Android app almost identical, if not completely, to the Windows 10 version. I would hate to stop using the Android app but if necessary I will due to it being too different from the Windows 10 version. I know I have said "version" multiple times but i hope it drives you to change the Android app. Thank you very much and I hope to see a change soon .

Onenote differs from most note managers by writing on several blocks of text on an infinite canvas, instead of a single block of text. This has advantages, especially on large screens, but it makes reading on the mobile a horrible experience.
It would be good if from mobile apps we can switch to reading mode, which adjusts the text block to the device width and the font size is what is adjusted when zooming (not the text block).

Regarding those pages where the user has several blocks of text in different places on the canvas, I can think of two options:
1) ban the mobile reading mode on those pages.
2) or better yet, sort the text blocks one below the other.

For any religious user of Onenote on Windows, the contrast in functionality between the Windows version and the android version is just painful. Simple things like page size formatting (i.e. setting paper size preference - A3, A4, Letter size, Tabloid size etc) are not available on the Android app. These things matter when you want to print out your notes. It is super frustrating to have handwritten notes that randomly spill over onto the next page when you are trying to print out notes that were taken on the android version because you have no ability to limit the page sizes in android.

Other important features like the ability to draw shapes are missing as well. Of all things, this app cannot draw a simple straight line? Ridiculous, to say the least. Also, being stuck with only a stroke eraser is super frustrating. Surely, if an app like Squid can do all these simple yet necessary functions, why are they missing on the Android version of OneNote. Hopefully other serious developers can take advantage of this and develop note taking apps with all the necessary features we want. I will gladly pay for an app that does exactly what I want it do even if it means switching from OneNote to another app. OneNote on android is just a far cry from what it is supposed to be.

I'm using one note on a Tab S4 for school sometimes for 6+ hours a day. Adding a night mode would make the app easier on the eyes, save A LOT of battery life, and help stop screen burn in on oled devices. Also it looks really good.

Currently I'm using an add-on on the desktop app which let's me use dark pages which I can then sync allowing me to use it on my mobile app but I have to do that every time i want to create a new page on my tablet which is kind of a pain.

It would be really great to have the same features in the Samsung Galaxy S4 tab version of the OneNote app as that of the OneNote 365 app.

The features I find the most useful are -

1. Page size option -
   Many times, I would like to take print of my assignments on an A4 page, to be able to submit them.
   Either printing the notes on an actual page or a pdf version, without the page size option on the tab, I don't know where to stop writing, where the page ends.




2. Print option -
   I would really like to print my notes from the tab, instead of later accessing them from the desktop and then printing the notes. It defeats the purpose of writing notes in the tab, if I have to carry laptop as well everywhere, which is not as handy as carrying only the tab to my classes.




3. Insert template -
   There is no option to insert template in the tab version of this app.
   I tried to create an A4 size page template from OneNote 365, and saved it. But I couldn't find any option to insert a template to my notebook from the android app, which would have been very useful, every time I needed to write on an A4 size page.

I have yet to explore more features in OneNote, to be able to say anything about them. So, for now, My focus are on these features which makes note taking on android tab very much easier, where one needn't use any other platform(i.e. OneNote 365) in addition to the android version.