So as long as you have a couple GBs of storage there (or a couple of hundred if you jumped on any promotions), you should be fine.Įvernote is the opposite (you only get 60 MB of storage for free every month). Even if it was a paid service, the revenue wouldn’t make a dent in the giant’s multi-billion dollar quarter results. OneNote is a very small part of MS’s business. It’s cross platform, has great features and has proved for more than half a decade that it’s a reliable system.

We’re pitting it against Evernote, currently the most popular and versatile note taking service. And it’s from MS after all, so it must be good, right? Well, that’s what we’re here to find out. Here’s a company that produces world-leading productivity software that has just made a big part of their suite free for everyone. When MS did that, many eyebrows rose simultaneously across the world. Now, it’s a completely standalone service backed by OneDrive and available on all major platforms – Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and of course, the web. Over the past year, Microsoft has been consciously unbundling OneNote from their Office Suite.

Evernote v onenote