If you chose “Stylus Orientation,” select the option closest to how you usually hold your stylus to draw.

Or you can select “Stylus Orientation” if you have a stylus, like the Apple Pencil, that you would like to use. Remember that this method will be very imprecise, and OneNote might have trouble converting it to text.

Here you can select “Draw With Touch,” which is for drawing with your finger, or a simple “finger simulator” stylus.

Open OneNote and navigate to the notebook and page where you want to take handwritten notes.

To take handwritten notes, simply do the following: Simply load a PDF into OneNote and scribble your notes on top of it with your stylus! Your iPad, a stylus, and OneNote make a perfect productivity combo, and you will wonder how you ever managed without it. With this feature, you can even write notes on top of other media, like pictures or PDF documents. Taking quick notes during a meeting, lesson, or even a brainstorming session, has never been easier. It turns your iPad into both a drawing tablet and a paper notebook, which is convenient and much faster than struggling with a Bluetooth or touchscreen keyboard. You can take handwritten notes in OneNote if you have a stylus and a touchscreen device like an iPad. Let’s look at available options that will convert your handwriting to text on an iPad and use it in OneNote. Thankfully there are ways around this, but they are just that: workarounds. After all, it works perfectly on Windows tablets like the Surface, while the iPad ecosystem is left lacking. You are able to take handwritten notes in OneNote, but converting them to text takes a few extra steps, either on a Windows PC, or using Apple’s Scribble feature directly on the iPad, in another app.Īfter so many years, it’s a pity that Microsoft still did not add their Ink To Text feature to their iPad app.

Microsoft has not added the ability to convert handwriting to text to the OneNote app on the iPad. Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as it should be, but it definitely is possible! Let’s see how. It’s fantastic that you can write notes using handwriting and have it in OneNote as text. The benefits include drawing or editing images, though that is just the tip of the iceberg. Having a touch screen device like an iPad, combined with some kind of stylus, can make your life so much easier.

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