With a Microsoft 365 account, you also get several Office apps, so it's a lot of bang for your buck. You can pay $1.99 per month for 100GB of storage, which is a fantastic deal, or get 1TB of storage with a Microsoft 365 account, starting at $6.99 per month.

With OneNote, storage comes from OneDrive, where you get 5GB for free.

Microsoft OneNote has the most features of any free note-taking app, and Joplin is our favorite free and open-source option. Typically, if you want to use a note-taking app for free you can, as long as you don't exceed the free storage limit. Several of the best note-taking apps are free or at least have a decent free tier of service. Ultimately, the best note-taking app is the one that clicks for you and the type of notes you take. Many of the best note-taking apps also have email forwarding, meaning you can forward an email to a special address and have the message turn up in your note-taking app as a note. Some use optical character recognition ( OCR) to search text even when it's in an image or PDF. The best note-taking apps have powerful search tools and various ways to organize and catalog your notes. The real value comes in being able to organize, share, and find the notes you need when you need them.

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