

Simply load a PDF into OneNote and scribble your notes on top of it with your stylus! Your iPad, a stylus, and OneNote make a perfect productivity combo, and you will wonder how you ever managed without it. With this feature, you can even write notes on top of other media, like pictures or PDF documents. Taking quick notes during a meeting, lesson, or even a brainstorming session, has never been easier. Here’s how to convert your handwriting to text on an iPad and use it in OneNote. A new feature released in iOS15 allows you to do it directly on the iPad, in the photo app.


You are able to take handwritten notes in OneNote, but converting them to text takes a few extra steps. Microsoft has not added the ability to easily convert handwriting to text to the OneNote app on the iPad, but there’s a way to do it in a roundabout way. Many digital planners use OneNote on iPad and sometimes you want to convert your handwriting to text in OneNote on iPad. The Key2Success Planner in OneNote is a powerful tool for setting vision, organizing your goals, and planning your schedule. Digital planning is obviously a big one – the ability to write in your schedule, sketch out your goals, and take notes that sync to other devices is awesome. You can download OneNote for iOS from the Apple AppStore.If you have an iPad and a stylus, there are so many possibilities. This month, it adds a switch in Settings so you can turn off Page Previews if you’d rather not take up the space. Microsoft added support for Page Previews in landscape mode in an August update. OneNote has been updated with improved support for Arabic and Hebrew so that the UI-and not just your notes-are displayed right-to-left. Improvements for right-to-left languages. The OneNote page list can now be moved to the right side of the screen for you lefties. OneNote now supports the Apple Pencil, which will ship with (and require) iPad Pro, due in November.

OneNote now supports Spotlight search, so you can search for your notes, as well as images, PDFs, and handwriting in your notes, directly from the iOS 9 search experience.Īpple Pencil support. (This feature also requires iPad Air 2 or iPad Pro.) This related iOS 9 feature lets you open OneNote (or another app) on top of another app so you can take a quick note without interrupting what you’re doing. As Microsoft notes-and as Windows 8 users have know since 2012, this makes it easy “to take notes while watching a lecture, reviewing slides or reading a paper for class.” With iOS 9 and an iPad Air 2 (and, soon, iPad Pro), you can now open OneNote on-screen side-by-side with another app using a new feature called Split View. With iOS 9 now rolling out to users of Apple’s i-Devices, Microsoft has released an update to its OneNote mobile app that supports the new system as well as the upcoming iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.
