Microsoft's OneNote note-taking app now comes with all its features enabled in the free version.
About a year ago, Microsoft made OneNote 2013 available for free for Mac and Windows platforms, but for Windows some features were only available in its full application included in the Office Suite.
These features are now enabled for everyone – there is no longer any functional difference between the paid and free versions of OneNote.
This means that all OneNote 2013 users will be able to:
- Add password protection to specific parts of your documents
- View previous versions of the page through Page History
- Take notes while recording audio or video
- Search for specific words in voice or video recordings
- Embed Office documents or other files directly into their notebooks
Keep in mind that OneNote 2013 is different from its more touch-friendly Windows 8 counterpart . The former is a much more powerful desktop application included in the Office Suite, while the latter is a lighter version for Windows 8's metro apps.
Microsoft likely made this change in anticipation of the revised versions of OneNote for both Office 2016 and Office for Windows 10 – which will be released later this year. Of course, OneNote 2013 users shouldn't miss out on this offer, which is unrelated to what will happen to the 2016 version.
You can download the updated free version of OneNote 2013 now from here .
