

You can also password-protect your notes (or unlock them with TouchID). One of the most compelling reasons to use Notes - other than the fact that it's already there on your iPhone or iPad - is that all of your notes are synced across your iCloud devices. Users can organize notes and attachments in a folder system and search for text What you get from this built-in app is a clean, simple interface and a number of tools for creating notes with formatted text, dictation, drawings, images, web snippets and file attachments. Microsoft OneNote for Mac is available for free on the Mac App Store OneNote for iPhone and OneNote for iPad are also available for free.IPhone users already have a pretty compelling note-taking option on their phone courtesy of Apple's Notes app. You can now close the OneNote window without quitting the app! Close Window – This has been a popular request.Now you can hide author initials in shared notebooks from the View tab. Hide authors – You asked, we listened.Existing images will also become searchable soon! You can even copy the image text and add it to your notes. OCR is now supported on new images added to OneDrive notebooks.

OCR for Images – Search for text contained within images in your OneNote notebooks.Microsoft also added support for iCloud Drive on its iOS versions of Office yesterday. The update also includes the ability to toggle viewing authors and closing the window without quitting the app. Searching images for text is currently possible for new images added to OneDrive notebooks, but a future version will make text search possible on existing images as well. Once OneNote’s OCR system has ran, you can actually copy the text and save it to your notes just like if it were a editable text file from the start. OneNote, Microsoft’s cross-platform application for taking and organizing notes, received a useful update on the Mac adding support for OCR, or optical character recognition. OneNote version 15.7.1, which is rolling out on the Mac App Store now, adds the ability to scan images from OneDrive notebooks for text.
