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About Microsoft OneNote is your all-in-one digital notebook for capturing ideas, organizing thoughts, and collaborating seamlessly. With Copilot in OneNote, you can draft plans, generate ideas, and structure your notes using simple natural-language prompts. Sketch, annotate, and highlight freely using digital ink that feels as natural as pen on paper. Share notebooks in real time to brainstorm, plan, or learn together with teammates, classmates, or family. Built-in voice transcription ensures you never miss key details from meetings or lectures. Whether at home, school, or work, OneNote helps you stay organized and creative across all your devices.	About Notepad has been the fast and simple text editor on Windows for over 30 years, and now it’s available in the Microsoft Store! View, edit, and search through plain text documents and source code files instantly. Edit text-based files and source code instantly. Customize your view with font options. Save in multiple encodings including UTF-8, UTF-16, and ANSI. For Windows 10 version 19541.0 or higher. Notepad offers only the most basic text manipulation functions, such as finding and replacing text. Until Windows ME, there were almost no keyboard shortcuts and no line-counting feature. Starting with Windows 2000, shortcuts for common commands like "New", "Open", and "Save" were added, as well as a status bar with a line counter (available only when word-wrap is disabled.) Notepad can print files. It allows customizing headers, footers, and margins before printing. The date, file name, and other information can be placed in the headers and footers with various codes.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook	Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience Students, professionals, educators, and teams who need a smart, collaborative, and AI-powered notebook to capture ideas, organize projects, and enhance productivity across multiple devices	Audience Any user looking for a simple text editor solution to view, edit, and search through plain text documents
Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online	Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online
API Offers API	API Offers API
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Pricing Free Free Version Free Trial	Pricing No information available. Free Version Free Trial
Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.8 / 5 ease 4.8 / 5 features 4.7 / 5 design 4.8 / 5 support 4.6 / 5 Read all reviews	Reviews/Ratings Overall 0.0 / 5 ease 0.0 / 5 features 0.0 / 5 design 0.0 / 5 support 0.0 / 5 This software hasn't been reviewed yet. Be the first to provide a review: Review this Software
Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person	Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person
Company Information Microsoft Founded: 1975 United States www.onenote.com	Company Information Microsoft Founded: 1975 United States www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-notepad/9msmlrh6lzf3
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Categories Corporate Wiki Lesson Planning Note-Taking Productivity	Categories CSV Editors Writing

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