Here are the best note-taking apps I could find. As a rule, if an app supports video calls out of the box, it's not a notes app.Įven with all these criteria in place, I still tested close to 40 different note apps for taking notes online.

There are some great super-niche notes apps designed for fiction writers or developers, but they aren't fit for most people, so weren't in consideration for a place on this list. Similarly, there are lots of powerful business collaboration tools that claim to be notes apps but just aren't suitable for one person. I also only really considered general-purpose personal note-taking apps. Lately I have seen a lot of questions in different Forums about copying or moving your OneNote Books.So for this list, I didn't look at every app that could be used to take notes or even every business collaboration tool that claimed it was a notes app-I was only interested in apps that were explicitly designed to be notes apps.

That kind of surprises me because I’d like to access my notebooks everywhere and on any device. It will come as no surprise that most of my notebooks are centralized in OneDrive. Every notebook accessible on every device. But I know where the questions come from. Not everybody uses OneDrive and many users also like the ability to store their notebook locally. How do you move your notebooks from your old PC to your new device? Now what to do if you get/buy a new computer, laptop or tablet. In the early days of OneNote the USB thumb drive was hot. Everything you wanted to save you would put on a thumb drive. How many of those do you still have lying around? If you are still very attached to these thumb drives you can still create your notebooks on them. Create a new notebook and when asked where to save it choose Computer and browse to your Thumb drive in the directory and click create. Now you notebook will be saved on the USB device. You can swap it with any pc, laptop or tablet you want. There is an important thing you need to know about this technique because it will be syncing your changes. Every now and again you will see the synchronization icon appear on the notebook.

Sharing notebooks in onenote