OneNote for the iPad

I dedicated multiple articles to the iPad and SharePoint. We use this combination for our customers in digital meeting scenario's. There is always one wish and that's making annotations in meeting documents.

The best application for creating and storing notes is of course OneNote. A great product but unfortunately not available as iPad app (at least not in Europe). We had to find a workaround for this problem. We started using iAnnotate to create annotations in meeting documents. These documents were able to be stored in SharePoint by using SharePlus. This works fine for our customers and they are all using it.

Two weeks ago I saw some tweets about a new OneNote app released by Microsoft. I hoped we could finally start using OneNote in combination with the iPad. Well I was wrong! Apparently the "app" does not support the OpenIn protocol. This means you cannot open any OneNote files with the iPad through the e-mail client or SharePlus.

I am amazed by this failure by Microsoft. What is the point of releasing this app with the support for the OpenIn protocol.

Please leave some feedback if you think otherwise.

Posted in: iPad, OneNote