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  • The state of OneNote in 2023

    ONENOTE

    Mary Branscombe

    By Mary Branscombe

    Progress on the unified Windows version of OneNote has delivered only a handful of new features this year, but the foundations might finally be finished.

    2024 will mark five years since Microsoft restarted work on the desktop Windows client and three years since it decided to cherry-pick some favorite OneNote features for Windows 10 before it reaches end of life in October 2025. Software development always takes longer than expected, especially with the impact of a global pandemic, so I want to look back at the progress OneNote has made in 2023 and then see where Microsoft has been focusing its investments.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.52.0, 2023-12-26).