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  • Longstanding feature requests, and their status

    ONENOTE

    Mary Branscombe

    By Mary Branscombe

    We’ve been waiting a long time for the OneNote features promised in 2019.

    I asked Microsoft to tell us what’s coming when.

    The very first time I heard about OneNote, at a press briefing for Office 2003, I saw how useful it would be — but there were also some things that I thought wouldn’t work. I went over to talk to Microsoft’s Chris Pratley and spent the next 20 minutes trapping him in a corner between the wall and the lunch table, making suggestions and asking for changes, before a PR person tactfully extracted him.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.22.0, 2023-05-29).