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 .

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.

Things like the ability to choose the type of font, and font size are crucial if you want to take notes properly. OneNote already has the ability to support these given that if I were to paste text from another source, OneNote is perfectly capable of showing the right font selection and font size so why can't the option to choose these myself also be added to the app? Even if you can't add the extensive customisation of Word, a simple option to choose between 3-4 different heading styles that many other apps already do with ease using markup would suffice.

Please add support for more formatting options on Android phones. I know the tablet app already has this option, which makes it all the more frustrating the the phone version doesn't when Android phones are far more prevalent than tablets and, in general, also sport far more powerful processors so it's obviously not a hardware limitation.

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.

Dear Community,

I'm using onenote very active and it's a great tool. Nevertheless there is one thing I would like to have improved on onenote Android app.

I'm collecting contact data in onenote, from email, from telephone , from anywhere, just as a quick container to get all new contact details in one place.

So my notes can have hundred of lines. If I'm going to search in onenote on my computer, cursor will jump to the matching text strings.

If I search on my mobile phone Samsung S7 edge, I only get the pages, where the text string is matching, but I do not get the result on the page.

The second point to improve, if it comes to contact data, I would like to have telephone number string as direct link to activate the phone app and prepare for dialing.

Maybe anybody has an idea how to manage this issue, or mayby Microsoft can add this feature in future release.

Thanks and BR

Peter

The Samsung Tab S3 comes with an stylus called S-Pen which features a button for the thumb. In Samsung's note taking app this can for example be used to switch to the eraser.

It would be a nice feature, if you could configure OneNote to react to this button, for example by cycling through pens (press to go to eraser, press again for the highlighter press again to be back to normal pen), or by acting as certain other pen while you hold the button.

With such a feature, the button would have a meaningful function and so you can work more productively. I think it is important, that if the button has an action then the user is able to quickly reassign that feature since work preferences change, maybe one user needs to highlight things at one day and at another day they are more brainstormy and need to erase things.