Now that Microsoft Surface Duo has been released you can experience it with its ideal companion, OneNote. The dual screens help make your note-taking experience even better. OneNote helps make working on Surface Duo easy and productive, giving you the power to create notes more effectively than ever before. Read on for an in-depth look at how OneNote on Surface Duo is crafted to optimize your efficiency.
App groups
You are likely used to juggling between apps - like OneNote and Teams to take meeting notes or OneNote and Edge to capture something interesting while surfing the internet. OneNote on Surface Duo is here to the rescue! It gives you the power to optimize taking notes using app groups. Check out this article on how to add OneNote to an app group.
The power of the dual screen
With Surface Duo you can expand your creativity across two screens, giving OneNote a more flexible experience. You can do things like view your navigation pane on one screen and open a notebook page on the other screen. This enables you to organize your notes or easily reference a note which is on one screen, while you keep working on the other screen. You can also expand your notebook across the dual-screen for easier viewing.
Drag and Drop
With OneNote on Surface Duo, say goodbye to copy and paste! Now you can simply drag and drop content. So when you are browsing your favorite blog on Edge, just drag and drop interesting content on a OneNote page. This helps save you time while you create content rich notes!
Inking with Microsoft Surface Pen
If you have a Microsoft Surface Pen, you can draw on the OneNote canvas like never before. It brings all the power and goodness of OneNote for Android to your Surface Duo. With an improved selection of colors and sizes of pens and highlighters, inking is better than ever! The lasso tool enables you to move and resize objects easily. Other tools, like eraser and undo/redo, make editing notes simple.
Landscape Mode
You can change the orientation of your screen to optimize your OneNote experience on Surface Duo. Rotate your device for landscape mode to expand OneNote across the two screens. When you are editing in landscape mode, the keyboard occupies one screen, giving you space on the other screen.
This was just a glimpse of how we have optimized your OneNote experience on Surface Duo. Surface Duo’s two screens provide an opportunity to organize your notes on the go with the Navigation Pane on the left screen for both Sections and Pages and the Page view on the right screen. Also, it comes with Dark Mode to enable users to use OneNote in any mode they like.
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