Members Reviews To Khs One For Mac
It’s been about a year since Microsoft released (and I reviewed), which was, available only from the. Over the past 14 or so months Microsoft has made numerous incremental changes to the app, adding or updating features and making the app more versatile and, perhaps, making it a better note taking choice than the everpresent. Whether OneNote is suitable as an Evernote replacement for you will depend largely on what you use Evernote for. For me, as I’ve used OneNote over the past year, I find it to be the tool that best suits my needs.
And I say this after attempting to use Evernote (in stops and starts) many times since I first the original iOS version of the app several years ago. But, mind you, I have very specific note taking needs. I’m using it to create large text documents with disparte but linked bits of information that I want to be easily shared and simple to navigate.
I don’t use many media files and I’m not “collecting” information, which is something Evernote excels at. For me, OneNote, while imperfect, is a perfect solution. Organizational genius: OneNote isn’t perfect, but it offers powerful tools for creating sophisticated, interlinked documents. OneNote is still free, so, while it comes as a part of, you don’t need Office 2016 or an Office 365 subscription to use the app. But you do need a account in order to save documents, as there is still no way to use a file saved locally on your Mac. Fortunately, Microsoft still offers free OneDrive accounts with 25GB of storage.
Documents created using OneNote can be shared with and edited by anyone, whether they have the app or not, as it offers not only apps for Mac and iOS, but a perfectly serviceable that supports most everything you can do with your Mac. Looks the same, but it’s different The app doesn’t look any different than did last year’s version, but there have been some tweaks to the way it works. Each OneNote document consists of a series of tabs, referred to as sections, and each section can have an unlimited number of pages.
Pages within a section are what you use to organize your information. And each page allows you to enter information a freeform fashion, which is to say that you can click anywhere and just start typing.
Your freeform typing is added to a text box that, once you enter text, can be rearranged, formatted, and organized on a page. An update to the app now allows you to drag files from the Finder to add them to the document, with some limitations. PDF files, Office documents, text files, and images can all be added to OneNote pages with a drag and drop. One of the things that makes OneNote excellent is the option it offers for linking to both internal and external references.
As you might expect it’s easy to add links to web sites by adding a hyperlink to a page, but what I find most beneficial is how you can link other pages within any current Notebooks or to Pages that are part of completely different Notebooks. This kind of Notebook linking capability allows you to create highly sophisticated documents that have both internal and external references OneNote is not perfect.
It still lags behind the Windows versions with relation to features and capabilities. For example, in the Windows version of OneNote you can add an Excel document to a page, open the document, make changes to the spreadsheet, save it, and see those changes reflected in OneNote. If you open the same Notebook in OneNote for Mac you can see the same information, but you can only open a read-only copy of the Excel document. Likewise, I can add an Excel document to a OneNote Mac Notebook by dragging it from the Finder, but once it’s part of OneNote it’s not editable.
Furthermore, if I update that document outside of OneNote my changes aren’t reflected in the document I dragged to OneNote. There have been improvements to linked web pages, although they also remain imperfect. You can add a web page to OneNote using the OneNote Clipper, which gives you the option of adding a whole web page or an individual article to OneNote. Clipped articles retain links and images while web pages appear as images in OneNote. (As an aside, OneNote is does a great job of extracting text from images you add to a Notebook.) But there was no way to add video from a web page to a OneNote document. The only option was to add a link to a page with video in it and view that video in your browser.
Notably, you can record and playback audio created from within the app. Bottom line OneNote remains a powerful tool for capturing notes. While it still lacks features I’d like to see in a note taking app, it remains the most intuitive and versatile app of this sort I’ve used and my one go-to app for creating sophisticated, multi-layered notes. It lacks all the capabilities of its Windows counterpart and it doesn’t offer the the kind of “capture-it-all” versatility you’ll find in Evernote, but it provides tools for organizing your notes you’re unlikely to find anywhere else.
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The has the best microphone of any wireless office headset we’ve tested. It transmits clear, easy-to-understand audio whether you’re speaking in a quiet office or a bustling coffee shop. Its 15-hour battery life and its padded earcups and headband make it capable of lasting, and pleasant to wear, for a full workday. Its noise-cancelling headphones make both callers and the music or podcasts you listen to sound great. And the headset is easy to connect to a computer or phone through Bluetooth, letting you roam around the office while maintaining a clear signal. If our main pick is unavailable and you need something right now, the lasts through an entire nine-hour workday and transmits clear audio, but it’s not as comfortable to wear as the Evolve 75 due to the lack of headband padding.
It also has worse headphones, a drawback that’s especially noticeable if you listen to music in between calls; on top of that, because the headphones lack active noise cancelling, external noise might make it harder to focus. Although you may be tempted to go with the Evolve 65 to save money, the Evolve 75 is worth saving up for. Daniel Varghese has used many microphones and headphones as a musician, podcast producer, and college radio DJ.
He has also tested several styles of and headsets for Wirecutter. Marianne Schultz has been writing about and reviewing consumer technology products, including smartphones and a variety of accessories, since 2008. To help devise our criteria for evaluating wireless office headsets, Marianne spoke with Tom Reilly, a senior financial specialist at Fidelity Investments.
Reilly has worked in call centers for several years, including in roles that required him to spend eight hours on the phone every day. To further hone our criteria for an update to this guide, Daniel consulted with Wirecutter senior staff writer Lauren Dragan, who has tested hundreds of headphones.
Who should buy a wireless office headset. You likely already own something that you can use as an office headset. Maybe it’s the headphones that came with your smartphone, or a set of premium noise-cancelling headphones you bought for travel. If you only occasionally talk on the phone, you can get by with pretty much any that have a microphone—you don’t need to buy a dedicated office headset. If you’re currently using a set of headphones with a microphone on the cable or earpiece for daily calls, upgrading to a headset will dramatically improve how you sound to the people on the other end of the line.
But if you work in an office and frequently take calls, a dedicated headset has at least one clear advantage over standard headphones: a better-quality microphone. A headset’s microphone, which sits at the end of a boom right next to your mouth, records and transmits clearer audio and less ambient background noise than the microphones on other types of headphones we’ve tested.
When we recorded audio with a pair of true wireless headphones in our simulated coffee shop environment, the audio still had the hustle and bustle of baristas grinding coffee and making espresso in the background. When we used one of our headset picks in the same environment, the recording sounded as if we had made it in a serene home office. If you’re with a microphone on the cable or earpiece for daily calls with colleagues or clients, even if it has a relatively good mic, upgrading to a headset will dramatically improve how you sound to the people on the other end of the line. Although any wireless or wired office headset we recommend offers this improved microphone quality and is comfortable to wear throughout an entire workday, wireless headsets offer the advantage of mobility.
A includes an inline controller that lets you easily mute yourself or adjust the volume without bringing your hands up to your ears, but it also tethers you to your desk. If you’d like to get a glass of water, for example, you have to wait until your call is over (or take your computer to the sink with you); if you need something from across the room during a conversation, you have to interrupt the call. A wireless headset usually has its controls built into its body, giving you freedom of motion while you’re on calls, and it often includes active noise cancelling in its headphones, but as a result it tends to cost a little more money than a wired option. If these features are important to you, you’re in the right place. The wireless office headsets we tested in 2017.
Photo: Michael Hession While researching this guide, we found scores of headsets and headphones with microphones. Thinking of someone who works in an office or home-office environment and who makes frequent calls—individual phone calls, as well as video or audio conferences—we focused on wireless stereo headsets intended for moderate to heavy call use, with a noise-cancelling boom microphone to better capture your voice.
These are the criteria we used to narrow our list of models to test:. Microphone quality: The main function of an office headset is to improve the sound of your voice on calls.
You don’t want to sound too distant and sunken, or too loud and bright; either effect can make you hard to understand. The best headsets pick up and transmit your voice clearly (usually by positioning the microphone at the end of an easily adjustable boom) without transmitting the sounds of normal breathing or your surroundings, often by using noise-cancelling technology.
Battery life: A good headset’s battery lasts at least eight hours between charges. Having to fumble around for a different set of headphones in the middle of an afternoon call with an important person not only annoys and inconveniences you but also might sully your reputation in the eyes of a client or colleague. Comfort: An office headset should be pleasant to wear for extended periods of time.
Members Reviews To Khs One For Mac 2017
This means it should have an adjustable headband so that it doesn’t squeeze your head too hard, as well as padding on the headband and earpads that don’t feel too scratchy. Ideally, the headset should be light enough that you can comfortably wear it for an entire workday. Headphone quality: At a bare minimum, a headset should have headphones that let you easily understand what anyone on the other end of a call is saying. But since wireless office headsets tend to cost as much as some, we looked for headphones that also sounded great across a range of audio types, music genres, and vocal timbres.
Good audio quality like that makes the people you’re talking to sound more natural, and it means the headset will sound great if you listen to music between calls. Wireless connectivity: We looked for headsets that were easy to pair with either a computer or a cell phone via Bluetooth or a USB dongle. The ideal headset can maintain a connection with two devices at once without issues. Equally important is that you can walk away from your device, maybe while pacing around your desk or walking to the kitchen for a cup of coffee, without worrying about the headset disconnecting. Unified Communications (UC) compatibility: We also considered whether a headset worked with common communications platforms by Avaya, Cisco, Oracle, and many others, though we didn’t make this compatibility a requirement for testing. These platforms can manage voice/telephony, video, and instant-messaging communications within a company to indicate presence (your availability) and status (on a live call, muted, and so on). For the original version of this guide, we used these criteria to narrow a list of 30 contenders down to nine finalists.
For our 2018 update, we retested two of our previous picks, the and the, against the newer, more beefed-up; we also tested two of our favorite wireless headphones, the and the, to see how good-quality Bluetooth headphones compared. How we tested. To test each headset’s microphone quality, we recorded ourselves reading the Shel Silverstein poem “Snowball” from Falling Up with each of the headsets twice. We selected “Snowball” because that short poem features a few words with tricky sibilance (“s” sounds) and plosives (“p” sounds) that can pose challenges for some microphones. During the first reading with each headset, we eliminated all background noise to test how the microphones performed in a controlled environment. In the second reading, Daniel turned his old, loud AC unit to its most powerful setting and played the “Morning Murmur” track from through a portable Bluetooth speaker to assess each headset microphone’s noise-cancelling capabilities. We recorded these tests directly (on the computer the headset was connected to) and then sent the audio files for evaluation to a listening panel of five Wirecutter staffers, including Lauren Dragan, our senior staff writer covering headphones.
Without telling our panelists which headset was associated with each file, we asked each person to rank the audio quality of each recording and to choose the headset they’d want their colleagues to use. After collecting this feedback, we incorporated each of these headsets into our work lives.
In 2017, Marianne tested each model in the home office of her small condo outside of Boston. In 2018, Daniel retested the previous picks along with the new options in his home office in Brooklyn and at his desk in the offices of The New York Times (parent company of Wirecutter) in Manhattan. We used each headset for the entirety of at least one workday, listening to music and podcasts and participating in phone calls and videoconferences with colleagues. While listening, we noted the clarity, the sound signature (which sound frequencies were emphasized, or whether all sounds were equally balanced), and the volume of the audio produced through the headphones of each headset. We also noted how the headsets felt to wear as we conducted our tests. We considered how easy it was to connect each headset to our computers and smartphones, and whether the connection would fail if we paired the headset to two devices at once. And we looked at any extra features, such as a “busy” light to show nearby co-workers that you’re on an active call, as well as companion software to manage settings or to provide battery-level details or other information.
Our pick: Jabra Evolve 75. The is the best headset for people who take a lot of calls throughout their workday and want the flexibility to get up from their computer while wearing their headset. This model offers all-day battery life and comfort plus great headphones, and it connects seamlessly through Bluetooth or a USB dongle.
Most notably, its microphone recorded audio that four out of five Wirecutter panelists agreed was easier to understand than the audio from any of the other headsets we tested. Whether you work in a serene home office or a noisy, open-plan coworking space, this headset will transmit clear, easy-to-understand audio to whoever is on the other end of the line. The Evolve 75’s microphone performed better than that of any other headset we tested in 2018. Regardless of whether we used the headset in an environment with no background noise or a lot of background noise, all but one of our five panelists ranked its sound as the clearest and easiest to understand.
During Daniel’s real-world testing, no one he spoke with over Zoom videoconference calls asked him to repeat himself or said that they couldn’t make out what he was saying. If you find yourself frequently on calls with your colleagues or important clients, the clarity the Evolve 75 offers will be invaluable. The Jabra Evolve 75 is the best choice for people who take a lot of calls throughout the workday and want the flexibility to get up from their computer while wearing their headset. Photo: Sarah Kobos Most of the wireless office headsets we tested were comfortable enough to wear for their entire battery life, which was usually at least nine hours.
The Evolve 75 is no exception: It’s a light headset with padded earcups and a padded, adjustable headband. Daniel was able to wear it during his 45-minute commute to the office and throughout an entire nine-hour workday, and even to keep it on for the commute home, all while listening to music or a podcast, or taking a call. And after that marathon, the headset still had plenty of battery for him to call a friend from home.
As long as you charge the Evolve 75 at your desk overnight, you shouldn’t have issues with its running out of battery in the middle of a call the next day. But in the event that you forget, you can use the Evolve 75 on calls while it’s charging via the included USB-A cable. Similarly, the Evolve 75’s high-quality headphones, which include active noise cancellation, mean you shouldn’t have to ask other people to repeat themselves. Although we didn’t expect the headphones in a wireless headset to sound as good as our favorite over-ear or everyday audiophile headphones, the Evolve 75 sounded excellent whether we were trying to pay attention to someone during a call or listening to music while working on an assignment. With some headsets we tested, the lowest or highest frequencies sounded washed out or absent, but not with the Evolve 75. You can quickly pair the Evolve 75 to your computer by simply plugging in the included USB dongle (though computers that have only USB-C ports will require an adapter). Photo: Sarah Kobos All Bluetooth devices we’ve tested have had quirks, and they’ve occasionally.
But the Evolve 75 had the fewest issues of the group we tested in 2018. To make things as easy as possible, Jabra packages the Evolve 75 with a USB-A dongle that’s paired to the headset out of the box. After we connected the headset to a MacBook using the dongle, we had no issues pairing the headset with an iPhone SE.
(You can opt to instead pair two devices directly via Bluetooth, without using the dongle.) While wearing the headset and walking around, we experienced a few short dropouts in music playback when wandering two rooms away, but we never dropped a call. Transitioning between listening to audio from a computer and listening to audio from a phone was easy—we simply stopped playing audio on one device and then started playing audio on the other, with a delay of only a few seconds as the headset changed over to the new source. With the other headsets we tested, we had trouble doing this—in order to change audio sources, we had to disconnect the first source from the headset and then turn the headset off and back on with the other connection active. The Evolve 75 is a Unified Communications–compatible headset, so it will work with the most popular UC platforms (such as Skype for Business). And it comes with a one-year warranty that covers manufacturing defects. Flaws but not dealbreakers. The microphone boom on the is a little long, so positioning the microphone properly—close enough to your mouth for good pickup, but not so close that it catches your breathing—takes a little finesse.
The locations of the mute and volume buttons also don’t lend themselves to being used together, but you can more easily mute by simply rotating the mic boom up toward the headband. What’s more annoying is that the headset lacks music-playback controls. This isn’t a dealbreaker, since you can just use the controls on your phone or computer to adjust your music, but we’d like such controls in a headset at this price. The Evolve 75’s mute button is located on the top rear of the right earpiece, though you can instead mute by just rotating the microphone boom up toward the headband. Photo: Sarah Kobos Speaking of price, there’s no use mincing words: The Evolve 75 is expensive.
However, considering that this is the headset you’ll be using for at least eight or nine hours a day, five days a week—and considering how much better it is than the next-best option—we think it’s worth saving up for. No other headset we’ve tested gives you the combination of comfort, battery life, microphone quality, and headphone quality that the Evolve 75 offers. Runner-up: Jabra Evolve 65. The is the headset we’d get if the became unavailable, but we wouldn’t choose it to save money—if you spend enough time on calls to need a headset, the Evolve 75 is worth the extra cost. Although the Evolve 65 shares the Evolve 75’s basic design and some of its features, including all-day battery life and UC compatibility, it lacks others, such as active noise cancelling in the headphones and a padded headband. It also didn’t fare as well in our microphone-quality or headphone-quality tests.
The Evolve 65 was the next-best option of the models we tested, but we don’t think it’s a good enough value, despite its lower price, to recommend over the Evolve 75. The Evolve 65 has a design similar to that of the Evolve 75, but it lacks some of that model’s most important features. Photo: Michael Hession In our microphone tests, the Evolve 65 performed adequately, but not as well as the Evolve 75. All five of our panelists said that the Evolve 65 was the second-best-sounding headset in the test with no background noise, but all preferred the sound of the Evolve 75.
Similarly, the headphones on the Evolve 65 were decent but not amazing: Vocals during calls were clear and easy to understand, but music tended to sound washed out and bass heavy. We think the Evolve 75’s superior audio regardless of what you’re listening to, along with its active noise cancellation to keep office noise out and help you concentrate, makes it worth the extra cost over the Evolve 65 for most people who need a headset. In usability, the Evolve 65 offers most of the same advantages as the Evolve 75. Both can connect via Bluetooth to your computer (made easier by the preconnected USB dongle) or smartphone, or directly to the computer with the included USB charging cable. And the headsets have a similar wireless range, so you shouldn’t expect too many signal interruptions on the Evolve 65 even if you stray far from your desk. But when we paired two devices to the Evolve 65 simultaneously, the headset connection became a bit more fickle, occasionally broadcasting only every other word—an issue we did not experience when using the Evolve 75.
The Jabra Evolve 65 with its included USB cable. Photo: Michael Hession The Evolve 65 has fewer controls than the Evolve 75—like that model, the Evolve 65 omits music-playback controls, but it also lacks the ability to mute and unmute its microphone. We don’t think this is a huge deal, but it’s a little annoying to have to use the controls on your device or in your communication software for that function. More glaring are the omissions of a padded headband and active noise cancellation.
The Evolve 65 has padded earcups, but its unpadded headband puts more pressure on the top of your head. And without active headphone noise cancelling (the Evolve 65 relies on the earcups’ seal to physically isolate your ears), it’s much harder to use the Evolve 65 in environments where you can’t control the ambient noise, such as a cubicle or an open-plan office. Even though the noise cancelling on the microphone ensures that whoever is on the other end of a call will hear you pretty clearly, you might have trouble hearing them due to the buzz around you. What about other Bluetooth or wireless headphones? There’s no getting around it: A good wireless office headset is expensive—some can cost as much as a, the kinds of headphones with planar-magnetic drivers that might need to be powered with a. Considering that the headphone quality of any wireless office headset simply can’t compete with that of a pair of audiophile headphones, skepticism toward the entire category of wireless office headsets seems warranted. As such, for our 2018 update of this guide, we compared the directly with the Jabra Move, a pair of inexpensive Bluetooth headphones that, and the Jabra Elite 65t, our then-favorite pair of.
Unfortunately, neither of those options—both Wirecutter picks within their respective categories at the time—came close to the Evolve 75 in the criteria relevant for this guide. (That all three are Jabra models is due only to the fact that Jabra makes headphones that we find to be high-quality enough to recommend after our rigorous independent testing across our guides.) Despite the lack of a boom mic on the, its outgoing audio in an environment with no background noise was actually easier to understand for our panelists than that of our previous top pick in this guide, the. Unfortunately, since the microphone on the Move has no ambient noise cancelling, audio from our test with background noise was much harder for our panelists to understand (all but one tester ranked it dead last in that test). The Move is pretty good as a pair of headphones, but we found that wearing it for the entirety of a workday was uncomfortable and that it didn’t manage being connected to two devices at once as well as the Evolve 75 did. These are the kinds of problems you’d experience using any kind of budget Bluetooth headphones, which are fine for taking a call in a quiet room in a pinch but don’t offer the frictionless experience and audio quality of our office headset picks.
The true wireless earbuds fared a little better in our microphone-comparison test, but they still underwhelmed relative to the Evolve 75. Our main concern with the Elite 65t for office use is this pair’s battery life: The earbuds are capable of only five hours of use before you need to put them back into their case for charging. Although that amount of time is currently at the top end of what true wireless headphones are capable of, it’s not good enough if you’re on the phone most of the day. What to look forward to. Plantronics two new lines of wireless office headsets: the Savi 8200 series and the Voyager 4200 series. The offerings from the Savi line look impressive, but have a lot of features that are relevant only if you want to connect your headset to a phone line, so we’re unlikely to test them for this guide. The Voyager 4200 series looks a little bit more relevant to our criteria, with more features specifically tailored to people who work in open offices.
As such, we plan to test the stereo against the Jabra Evolve 75 soon. The competition. : The Voyager Focus UC was our previous top pick in this guide, largely because it was easier to use than the other models we tested, its headphones have active noise cancelling, and it includes a dock for charging. However, in our 2018 tests, the Focus UC’s microphone performed remarkably poorly compared with those of our new picks. Listening to a recording we made in an environment with no background noise, all but one panelist thought this model captured the worst sound of the headsets we were testing (that one panelist ranked it second to last). The Focus UC performed relatively better in an environment with background noise, but even so all but one of our panelists preferred the sound from both the and the. We also found that the Bluetooth connection on the Focus UC was a bit more finicky than we would have liked, especially when we tried to connect two devices to it at the same time.: The Savi W720 manages all connections—including Bluetooth for your mobile phone—through a base that you need to plug into a wall outlet, and you have no way to use it without the base.
In our tests, outgoing voice quality was very good and callers’ voices sounded clear, but the Savi W720 suffered from flat, AM-radio-sounding music playback. Its earcups are well-padded, but the headband has no padding. Although the headset is light (just over 2.5 ounces, thanks to lots of cheap-feeling plastic), its mild clamping force makes it uncomfortable to wear for long calls. This is the only model in our test group that’s capable of connecting to a landline in addition to a mobile phone and computer.
If you need all three of those connections and you don’t care much about music quality, you might consider this pair.: This headset manages all connections through its base. It can connect to a landline and your computer, but it has no means to connect to a mobile phone. Although our outgoing audio was fine in a quiet office, the MB Pro 2’s outgoing noise cancellation didn’t do a good job separating our voice from background noise during testing. This headset had excellent battery life, and it’s light at just under 3 ounces, but its music playback was painfully tinny.: The SD Pro 2 is virtually identical to the MB Pro 2, but this model’s accompanying base is for charging only. The headset connects via Bluetooth through a dongle for your computer and directly to your smartphone. In our tests it performed nearly the same as the MB Pro 2 in battery life and audio quality, including the same tinny music playback.: Even though this VXi model lasted at least a full workday (as both our top pick and runner-up did), it earned the lowest scores across the board in our tests of outgoing audio quality.
Music playback was bass heavy for us, and the controls allow you to crank the volume louder than is probably good for you. Significantly louder than all the others when we set it to 50 percent during the battery test, it was still audible from the next room when we stepped away, and it was uncomfortable for us to wear with the volume at that level. It’s also the bulkiest and heaviest headset we tested, at 7 ounces, though its well-cushioned earcups took the edge off the strong clamping force.