Microsoft has given its note-taking app OneNote a handful of notable new features today.
First up, OneNote for Mac now lets you add audio notes to your account, which Microsoft says was one of the most frequently requested features for the desktop app. Audio notes were already an option in the Windows version.
This could prove particularly useful for students in lectures and classes -- as they're taking notes, they can elect to record what's being said and add this file into their file. Their typed notes are synchronized with the audio as it records, so all they need to do is hover their mouse over the section of text and they can play the audio from that particular point of the event.
Elsewhere on OneNote for Mac, you can now recover deleted notes -- through the View tab you'll now see a Deleted Notes option that shows everything you've gotten rid of in the past two months.
On other platforms, including OneNote for iPad, notebooks that are saved to OneDrive -- Microsoft's cloud storage service -- can now be searched for handwritten notes too. Handwriting recognition has actually been a feature of the OneNote app on Windows for a while, but the ability to search within a file saved to OneDrive has now been added to iPad, iPhone, Mac and Windows 8.1 tablets.
There are some limitations initially, though. The feature will work quickly for any new handwritten notes saved to OneDrive; they will be searchable "within two to five minutes." However, your existing handwritten notes on OneDrive will be "processed and searchable in the coming weeks," according to the Office blog post.