

OneDrive or OneDrive for Business as storage location is mandatory in the free version of OneNote 2016. The corresponding menu entries are there but selecting them only results in an error message.

But Microsoft soon thought it over and added almost all missing features with the following updates so that in the end the free version of OneNote 2013 (meanwhile OneNote 2016) looked pretty much identical to the Office version.

Essential functions have been left out or blocked, like recording audio notes or encrypted sections. But a closer look of that version soon revealed a lot of flaws and missing features, compared to the version that is installed with MS Office 2013. It’s been exciting news when in March 2014 Microsoft announced that OneNote 2013 would be now available for free to everyone. Is it really the full OneNote 2016? And why is the Microsoft website telling me I already got it? Of course it offers deep integration with OneNote and Office products, although many third-party services like Todoist, Twitter, and Google Calendar are also supported.Since early 2014 Microsoft is offering a free download of OneNote, at first OneNote 2013, now OneNote 2016. Microsoft Flow is the company’s own take on IFTTT. If there’s a key productivity tool out there, Microsoft is bound to build a competitor. You can use several OneNote recipes that will do tricks like sending iPhone screenshots to OneNote, forwarding important emails, and saving handwritten notes from other applications. There’s plenty of power behind the life-programming service known as IFTTT. There’s an app for Windows as well as Android and iOS, so you can snap the picture with any of your devices. With Office Lens, you can snap the picture and save it directly into one of your OneNote notebooks. OneNote is a great place to save everything for later, so you don’t have to worry about digging through your file system to track down the picture of that whiteboard brainstorming session. The Office Lens app will let you instantly save a photo to your OneDrive. Once you’ve connected your OneNote account to Feedly, you’re able to save articles directly to one of your OneNote notebooks. An RSS reader may sound like something from a bygone era, but a tool like Feedly helps you stay atop of news and other online sources without getting lost in the chaos of social media.
