Ordinarily, you’d have to create a whole new document or email message to convey your comments. Or you get a screenshot of a webpage mockup that requires your feedback.

Say you get back from a meeting and you want to turn some of that whiteboard brainstorming into action items and share it with your colleagues. From here, you can jot down notes, draw a draft of a flow-chart, or doodle in the margins of your meeting agenda while your coworker blathers on. This will prevent the iPad from mistaking your palm resting on the screen for digital input. If you’re using a stylus, you should also tap Palm Rejection from the ribbon and select the image that best resembles the way you hold a pen. To write notes using your finger or a stylus, tap the Draw tab on the OneNote ribbon and select a pen, marker, or highlighter, as well as ink color and thickness. For tech pros, the most useful of the bunch is Replay: It’s an animated instant-replay for your sketches, letting you rewind and replay ink strokes that you made with your stylus as a visual demonstration for others.OneNote for iPad’s Palm Rejection feature keeps your hand from smearing your writing.

Office-exclusive features: When you use OneNote in conjunction with your Office 365 subscription you’ll unlock a handful of bonus features, including a Researcher tool and a Math Assistant.

Another option, Immersive Reader, will read a note aloud if you need to look away from your screen.

Distraction-free options: OneNote has lots of pretty color-coded organizational tags, but if you just want to focus you can choose Reading View instead.

Image-to-text transcription: Like Google Keep, OneNote is good at pulling text off of images that you can insert into your notes.

You can collaborate with coworkers the way you do in other Office apps, too. You can insert things like Excel tables or lists from your Outlook email, and you can present your notes to others in a style similar to PowerPoint.

A familiar Office layout: OneNote’s menu bar looks a lot like Microsoft Word.

You can use your HP Pen to draw, take notes (which can be converted to text later) and edit your old ones.

A stylus-friendly app: OneNote is particularly well-suited to use with smart pens.

One note pencil