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This review first appeared in issue 355 of PC Pro.
It could be because I tried Copilot in OneNote after all the other apps. It could be a because Iâm not a regular OneNote user. Or it could be that this is indeed a, âoh, I suppose we should add it to OneNote as wellâ kind of effort.
Copilot appears in OneNote the same way as most other apps: as a button in the Home ribbon. You can do all the things youâd expect, such as summarizing meeting notes and creating action points. But where in Teams it feels powerful and integrated, here it feels like an add-on.
For example, I hoped that it would tie in with the transcription option, perhaps creating a rival to Otter.ai that not only delivered the notes but gave me something extra, such as sentiment analysis. But no, it couldnât even remove the timestamps from the text when I accidentally kept them in.
Youâll also need to be careful about where you file notes, as Copilot has some difficulty discerning between the active note and all the ones filed within a project. Mind you, the fact that it can work across a bunch of collated notes has its advantages, too.
Copilot in OneNote performed best when working with my scrawled notes from a meeting, deducing that when I wrote some names next to âWho?â that these were indeed the people involved.
If youâre a OneNote fan then youâll probably like what Copilot Pro can do. But I canât see this making any new converts.
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