OneNote is a note taking app and doesnt really have much of a competitor on Windows.

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I am about to be a freshman in college as well as a Biochem major.

I have a surface book 2 that I plan on using to hand-write all of my notes throughout college.

I also like the fact that I can sync it across all of my devices as I will have a desktop pc in college.

Also though, I wouldnt mind sending them to myself in some way to access documents across platforms if I do end up going with Drawboard.

Something else I heard about onenote is that the more slides a powerpoint has (i would upload it to annotate), the slower onenote will become.

I dont know how many slidespages it would take to start to lag the application as I dont know the typical number of slides a professor utilizes in college.

As for drawboard, I like the modern design it has as well as the organization of it quite a bit more than onenote.

It can also do everything that onenote can do as far as the features I am interested in using.

I understand that I can do a lot more with onenote, but I doubt Ill actually use the extra features for taking notes.

But Id like to have everything in one place, so whether or not onenote lags with the more pages I have open is an important factor to me.

Thank you for any tipsexperiences you give tl;dr I cant pick between onenote and Drawboard.

I will need an app for hand-writing all my notes throughout college as a biochem major.

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If you need to makeup on PDF, use drawboard.

Share Report Save level 2 2 years ago I use onenote and drawboard the same way as uyren004.

Drawboard doesnt have the organizationmanagement capabilities that Onenote has-- or at least its not as convenient to use.

Between the two (onenote or drawboard), youre going to have a hard time keeping things organized, in my opinion, in Drawboard.

Creating pickup notes are harder as well (e.g.

I also found drawboard historically to be buggy, sometimes losing all my annotations --- very frustrating.

If anyone has been using drawboard as a substitute to onenote, please correct me.

Share Report Save Continue this thread level 1 2 years ago I used to use Drawboard, then switched primarily to OneNote.

Itll search for keywords through every notebook you have which makes it handy for looking things up from previous lectures.

If your handwritten notes are neat enough, itll find those notes too.

In terms of syncing, if you add your files to OneDrive, itll sync across devices.

For example, Ill work on a file right from the OneDrive folder on my desktops pc, then can continue working on it when I switch to my Surface, as long as it syncs to the cloud (youll see a little cloud icon in explorer).

Would you have switched if that option was available 1 Share Report Save level 1 Surface Pro 2 years ago Theyre really two different types of apps.

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