Cons

Evernote is available on more platforms, and it isn't tethered to any particular brand.
Evernote provides more controls for organizing your information.
Evernote's ecosystem of apps expands its rich-media possibilities.
Evernote is easier to manage than the SharePoint or SkyDrive Pro back end for
OneNote.
Evernote provides users with a powerful note-taking platform for free, along with
customization and expanded capabilities through apps and add-ons. Plus,
Evernote's version for businesses is straightforward and affordable.

Pros
It makes sense that OneNote, brought to you by the makers of Word software,
provides the richest text formatting.

Why don’t people use productivity app?

Why not one-note?
Increase the adoption and usage of one-note.
To find the root cause of lower usage.

OneNote is available as part of a Microsoft Office 365 subscription, starting at $100

per year per home user. It also comes bundled within Office desktop suites starting
at $140. As a stand-alone product, OneNote 2013 costs $70. You can use OneNote
for free as a Web app through Microsoft SkyDrive, and on Windows Phone, Android,
or iOS. The Office version provides additional features, such as the ability to clip
screenshots or "print" documents directly to OneNote.
OneNote offers Web access plus apps for Windows Phone, Android, and iOS. It's
available for Windows within Microsoft Office and as the OneNote MX app for
Windows 8. With the exception of OneNote 2013, which is part of Office 365 or
Office 2013, all the other OneNote options are free. If you favour Microsoft services
and devices, OneNote is your natural choice.
You can create separate notebooks in OneNote. Each notebook can contain multiple
sections, and each section can have multiple pages and colour coding. The desktop
version of OneNote also allows you to create a Section Group, the equivalent of
embedding a notebook in a notebook.
The free versions of OneNote let you insert Web links, text, and images. The paid
OneNote within Microsoft Office also permits you to add audio clips to notes. With
OneNote's Windows-only desktop software, you can scan an image into a note, or
add screen clips, Excel spreadsheets, or other files.
OneNote for Android allows you to add text, create a numbered or bulleted list,
create a list with checkboxes, or insert a photo into a note. You can't format text.

OneNote on iOS is similar but lacks numbered lists, although the OneNote app for
Windows Phone enables numbered lists and text formatting. The Web and Office
versions of OneNote both provide more-comprehensive text editing, while the
OneNote MX app for Windows 8 uses an innovative radial menu for formatting.

OneNote, on the other hand, supports management features through SharePoint or

SkyDrive Pro. The IT admin can manage business data stored there, as well as
control user access through Active Directory and Group Policy. You can share
notebooks with the whole company, or with designated individuals or teams.
Individuals can access their personal OneNote notebooks on SkyDrive, as well as
the company notebooks for which they have permission on SharePoint or SkyDrive
Pro.

OneNote is an exceptional product, and comes in a close second to Evernote.

Although OneNote is available for a variety of platforms and devices, it’s still a
Microsoft tool, so it lacks the platform-agnostic approach and strong third-party
support that strengthen Evernote.

LINKS - Cannot link your notes to Office files

HISTORY TAB - The entire History tab is missing. The full search functionality of the History
tab can be crucial to collaboration.
SEARCH - Ability to search Greek letters is added, but you can't search for other special
characters, including emojis
OCR - Cannot select, copy, or search text from inserted or pasted images.
3rd PARTY - No support for third-party COM add-ins. For example, Onetastic added the
features that OneNote should have had in the first place (collapse all sections script, table of
contents script, etc...).
OPTIONS - OneNote for Windows has almost no customization whatsoever. Essentially
everything listed under "OneNote Options" in the Desktop app is missing.
TABLES - Features are limited with no integration of Excel.
TASKS - Cannot create Outlook Tasks in your notes
REVIEW TAB - Missing along with features.
COMMANDS - Cannot pin your favourite commands to the Quick Access Toolbar or use most
keyboard shortcuts.
TEMPLATES - Cannot apply a template to pages to maintain a specific look or layout
LOCAL NOTEBOOKS - Cannot store notebooks on your local hard drive instead of in the
cloud, including backups
THEME - Dark theme is not available. Important for power consumption with AMOLED
displays.
RECORD VIDEO - Option missing
QUICK NOTE VIEW - When you open a Quick Note, OneNote operates as a plain note pad at
the side of your screen with a hidden menu at the top. No such view exists in the UWP.
Sample
Section A Closed ended basic questions
Section B Descriptive questions related to the features of the app
Section C Ranking questions on the basis of the attributes.
Section D Open ended questions about improvements.
Section E Personals

How do you organise your daily tasks or take note of important things?
How did you get to know about it?
When and where you first used it?

friends

Ease of checklist
You can have tasks in different tabs
To accumulate different tasks
Daily
I didn’t stop using it
Improvements reminders timelines deadlines sharing(privacy) allotting people tasks
Work related things
Yes

1. How did you get to know about it/ when and where you first used it?
Friends, while I was working.

2. What all purposes you used it for?

Keeping track of things, organising my work.

3. For what purpose it is most useful according to you?

To organize different tasks, you can easily keep tab on your work and go back to it if
you think you are missing anything.

4. What all feature you used mostly?

I used it for simple reminder kind of thing. I used notebook to write my schedule for
whole day. I used options of attaching screenshots or images so, that I don’t have to
write it all over again. I kept my passwords and all other reminders in that.

5. How frequently you used it?

While I was working, I used it daily
.
6. What did you like about it?
It is easy to use. You can create sections for multiple work. The text formatting is
really helpful if you want to direct print your work. It works as a doc file. You can keep
 your tasks separately. If you have been using for a long time, the option search really
helps to save time.

7. What you didn’t like about it?

I don’t like that It doesn’t have any feature of reminders.

8. Why did you stop using it?

I stopped using it because I don’t work now and simple sticky note works.

9. What made you switch?

I just found it easier to use.

10. For people - who found it difficult to use/ understand - Did you read the instruction
notebook?
I didn’t find it difficult to use and also, I don’t know about the instruction notebook.

11. Do you prefer/think of using it in future?

Yes, if I’ll work and need to keep track of whole lot of things.

12. Suggest changes you’d like to see? / What other features would make you use it
again?
Reminders
If I can share the tasks and allot tasks to individual person with deadlines.

13. Would you recommend OneNote to friends?

Sure

1. How do you organise your daily tasks or take note of important things?
Sticky Note or I use whatsapp to keep myself updated.

2. What do you prefer, physical note-taking or digital note-taking?

Digital note taking, I can’t have access to physical means all the time.

3. What are the Pros and Cons of taking notes physically.

Pros: It is in front of you, since it’s visible you will not forget your chores.
Cons: You can’t carry it all the time and also sticky notes are easily missed.

4. What are the Pros and Cons of taking notes via digital Applications.
Pros: You can constantly update it. It’s easily accessible and since you and carry it all
the time all the work is gathered at a single place.
Cons: Since I’m
5. How many paper note-books do you have? How often you use them/ carry them with
you?
Two or three. I use them daily but I don’t carry them frequently.
6. What all note-taking apps or softwares have you heard of?
Evernote, Google notes.
7. Which ones do you currently use or have used in the past?
I have used google notes in past.
8. Have you heard about OneNote?
Yes.

9. OneNote has these features. Do you like these features?

Yes
10. Do you think some of these features are unnecessary?
Yes, I don’t think whiteboard is necessary unless you have touch screen laptop or
you are using it on tablet as on mobile it’s not that useful.

11. Do you want to add some more features to OneNote?

If it has some excel features like if it could calculate few things, like if I feed my
monthly spending it could tell me the sum.
Reminder
Security lock option for each document so that I can lock some if I don’t want others
to look into it.
12. Will you like to try OneNote now?
yes
13. Would you recommend OneNote to friends?
Depends, I’ll use it then I’ll recommend it.

Changes after pre-test:

We have reduced the number of questions from 25 to 20
We removed redundant questions
Single answer type to multiple answer type Q 2 AND 7
Survey header
Less number of Open-ended questions. We changed the feedback question into
closed into question.
Better Graphics
Accumulated the options of Q 7 into buckets. Removed the redundant options.

To do tasks
Creative writing

1. How do you organise your daily tasks or take note of important things?
I use sticky notes and whatsapp
2. Do you use a digital diary? Digital notebook?
I don’t use digital diary but I use whatsapp group having only me in it to remind me of
any important task.
3. What do you prefer, physical note-taking or digital note-taking?
I prefer whatsapp.
4. What are the Pros and Cons of taking notes offline.
Pros: It is more organized, I can place my notes the way I want to., I can write in bits
and pieces.
Cons: You have to carry it everywhere which is not convenient. You might also forget
it which creates disruption in the flow of making to do lists.
5. What are the Pros and Cons of taking notes online
Pros: You can carry it everywhere. It is in your phone so you can rarely miss any
chance of having it with you. It has very robust features in the app and it is also sync
option. You can copy paste any information, you don’t have to write it down
everytime.
Cons: Flexibility of note-taking is lesser. Typing breaks the flow of thoughts. The
psychological aspect of satisfaction with organizing is lesser.
6. How many paper note-books do you have? How often you use them/ carry them with
you?
 I have 3 diaries and sticky notes. I use one of the diaries and extensively use the
sticky notes.
7. What all note-taking apps or softwares have you heard of?
Google keep, OneNote, EverNote
8. Which ones do you currently use or have used in the past?
All of the above

Feedback from the Pre-test survey:

The survey is found to be time consuming. It says 5 minutes but takes around 15
minutes to complete. It has many redundant questions. There are leading questions
which influence the decisions. These questions inadvertently encourage to respond
in a certain way. Some questions are confusing and don’t have appropriate options to
choose from.

After the pre-test we have tried to improve some of the following parameters:
To shorten the Survey, we have reduced the number of questions from 25 to 20 by removing
questions which had an overlap with other questions or had ambiguous interpretation.
Altered some single answer-type questions to multiple answer-type questions to gauge a
wider user perspective.
Decreased the number of open-ended questions due to the lower number of user responses
and changed the feedback question into closed ended format.
Enhanced the look and feel of the form by working towards better graphics for the form
based on the initial feedback we got from the users.
Accumulated the options of some questions into buckets and removed the redundant ones.