
Thanks to Microsoft's business clout, other developers are falling over themselves to integrate OneNote into their apps. There are optional extensions, too: OneNote Web Clipper (opens in new tab) lets you capture and clip sections of web pages, and Office Lens (opens in new tab) (for Windows 10 Mobile) captures pictures of handouts, whiteboards and other meeting-room paraphernalia, turns them into editable documents and saves them to a notebook.

You can also import text and tables from other Microsoft Office apps, record audio, and email content straight to a notebook (a very handy option for working on fiddly smartphone screens). Like most Evernote alternatives, OneNote lets you gather and organise links, text, images and drawings in tagged notebooks, but it also has a few extra tricks up its sleeve. Earlier this year, Microsoft cut the standard OneDrive storage limit from 15GB to 5GB, which is worth bearing in mind if your notes tend to contain a lot of images and other media.

OneNote synchronizes your data through your Microsoft account, and uses OneDrive to store everything you save.
