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

the current OneNote Android App 16.0.12827.20234 can't sync Notebooks on the following Samsung Phones:
- Galaxy A71
- Galaxy A70 after Android 10 update
- Galaxy S10 Lite

Notebooks got allways the sync error codes 0xE000283C and "0xE000006B b6d09".

Steps to reproduce:
1. install Onenote from Play store on one of the Samsung Phones
2. Open Notebook either directly in Onenote App or by click a Notebook in Onedrive app and open it in Onenote Mobile App
3. Wait to see the Notebook icon is gray with a exclamation mark
4. tap on the 3 dots to see the sync errors

This also happen with old notebooks and with new created notebooks.

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.

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.

Back in the beginning of computer era the "container paradigm" used to dominate the way data was organized. Everything had to be saved as a file and organized in folders and those folders in other folders and then logical drives and so on. That was just a digital copy of how the world was organized before computers were invented. We just transferred the data organization methods on paper into our digital devices.
Pretty early the idea of databases came out and storing and finding big amounts of records could be done using them more and more efficiently, but for the "classical" data the "container paradigm" was never rethought! Today we still organize our documents in files and folders, the same with our digital photos and music
People even do it with new digital data formats like e-mail and ask for folder support to be added to their instant messaging services!
On the other side, Google has shown with labels in GMail and Twitter with hashtags that actually the best way to organize digital data is tagging, which is actually putting all data in a huge database, referenced by any number of tags.
The greatest benefit of the "tagged organization paradigm" is that you can have a piece of information referenced by several tags in different contexts without having to provide several copies of it that are difficult to keep synchronized.
Having a tag hierarchy, you can even build sets and subsets of information pieces, e.g. you can search for anything regarding "#pets" or for more specific items, "#pets.dogs". Both will show you the items regarding dogs, but #pets collects also information about other pets.

The point is, you still have some hierarchical organization like folders, but you only structure the references, not the content storage.

PLEASE add easy to use tagging possibility (like Evernote) and hierarchical tag organization to make OneNote the number one note taking and organizing tool.