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Comment on Microsoft releases OneNote for Android by Oleg Kokorin

Oleg Kokorin — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:32:13 +0000

Jeff, we are working to improve the performance of MobileNoter – we do hear this complaint sometimes. On the good side, we just released an update to MobileNoter, which syncs with SharePoint. That’s fourth update of MN in 2012, and we are only 2 months into the year! I don’t think that Microsoft is ever going to be that swift.

Comment on Microsoft releases OneNote for Android by Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:36:56 +0000

I just tried Microsoft’s Onenote and compared its performance to MobileNoter.

Say what you want about Onenote, but it’s significantly faster than your offering. I timed it with a stopwatch, and it takes just 2.8 seconds to open a simple notebook page. It takes Mobilenoter 6.3 seconds to open the same page.

Mobilenoter’s slow performance is a huge hassle. Right now, I’m stuck on Mobilenoter because Onenote for Android can’t use the SD card… but if Microsoft fixes this, I’m switching.

Comment on Microsoft releases OneNote for Android by Doug Steinschneider

Doug Steinschneider — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:58:36 +0000

I’ve been using the WiFi edition. I just did a fresh install on my Android phone and when looking for mobilenoter I typed in OneNote and found the newly released MS product. I have my OneNote files synced to SkyDrive so I installed the Android OneNote and everything synced up (about 300 notes). I agree that the formatting in MobileNoter looks more like it does on my computer but for the phone screen format that’s not as important for me as being able to sync to SkyDrive. I recommend you just have one version of MobileNoter that syncs to WiFi or SkyDrive.

Comment on MobileNoter SE for Android updated by MobileNoter SE HD for Android updated « Lessons to be learned

MobileNoter SE HD for Android updated « Lessons to be learned — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:10:27 +0000

[...] SE HD for Android has been updated in the Google Android Market. Just like with MobileNoter SE update – this update offers full inking capabilities, plus other niceties like copy/paste and [...]

Comment on Microsoft released OneNote for iPhone. Guess how we feel? by Microsoft releases OneNote for Android « Lessons to be learned

Microsoft releases OneNote for Android « Lessons to be learned — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:59:36 +0000

[...] doesn’t stop from surprising us again. First, they started with releasing OneNote for iPhone, which didn’t even launch on the phone for most users. Now, they are releasing software for Android, a Google’s platform. Yes, that [...]

Comment on MobileNoter SE for Android updated by Oleg Kokorin

Oleg Kokorin — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:43:32 +0000

You are correct that iPad version has the inking capability. In the statement above I was actually referring to a major overhaul of the iPad version, which will add ability to sync with DropBox, Skydrive, and Sharepoint.

Answering your question:
1. There are many Android devices that work well with a stylus. iPad can’t really do it.
2. Currently, iPad version of MobileNoter doesnt’t sync with online services. Android version can sync with DropBox and Skydrive. We will update it with Sharepoint sync in a matter of a week or two. So if having your notes in an online storage is important to you, then again Android platform is strongly preferred.

Other than that, there are no major differences between iPad and Android HD version.

Comment on MobileNoter SE for Android updated by halfempty

halfempty — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:17:17 +0000

Just want to clarify a statement in the blog …. “Needless to say, this feature will be available in the HD version very soon, iOS versions of MobileNoter to follow”. I thought that the iPad already had drawing capability?

I’m a very heavy OneNote user on my laptop, but would like to get a tablet version to take to meetings to essentially replace my pen and paper, draw and hand write notes from a meeting (preferably with a stylus), and sync back to my laptop. Which version and platform should I be using to get that functionality?

Comment on Catch – an unlikely competitor to Evernote by william galindo

william galindo — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:47:04 +0000

they did not lack a business model, they have good founding rounds, is a common practice to offer a service for free for a while until you catch an x number of users and then launch a freemium model (they just did it), and even if they are not the best, there is always space for a second and third player in the market as far as they differentiate, in this case CATCH offers free offline storage, means that you can access your notes out of the country an in a basement with no signal, Evernote offers that only for premium users, catch overs that to the free users

Comment on MobileNoter SE for Android updated by Oleg Kokorin

Oleg Kokorin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:37:49 +0000

Good news first: now that inking is done, “add new note” is the feature we are working on. We expect it to be finished and delivered in February – probably in a couple of weeks.

On the big guys: don’t think so. It took Microsoft forever to deliver Onenote to iPhone and then iPad. And after all the time and effort, their Onenote for iOS doesn’t even display note formatting and inking, I would even say that Microsoft Onenote for iOS pretty much resembles Evernote = FAIL. That’s iOS we are talking about. Android is totally outside of Microsoft’s target platforms.

On the price: we are aware of the problem and are considering changes in our prices.

Comment on MobileNoter SE for Android updated by vineman

vineman — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:12:22 +0000

downloaded the trial to see what you guys are made of – it’s pretty worthless as far as trials go with limited functionality – can’t create new OneNotes? really? You guys are so close, but the price is high in a market where $5 is expensive. You want to beat MS to the punch? sell cheap and lock in users before the big guy moves in. you’re gonna miss your window pretty soon