Written by Samah Labib
Friday, 07 April 2023 01:00 AM
Microsoft is planning to add the new Microsoft 365 Copilot assistant to OneNote. The software giant originally announced Copilot for apps like Teams, Word, Excel and PowerPoint last month, and is now ready to show how note-taking will be affected by an AI-powered assistant, according to theverge report.
“As your partner in note-taking, Copilot uses your prompts to formulate plans, create ideas, create lists, organize information, and more,” explains Greg Mace, product manager for OneNote.
Just like Copilot’s integration into Word, the AI assistant can retype, format, or summarize existing text in OneNote based on prompts in the sidebar interface. You can also ask the AI assistant to create a plan for an event or create topics and talking points for meetings.
Microsoft hasn’t shown the built-in integration of Copilot into OneNote yet, and in the Word version you can highlight paragraphs and the Copilot Assistant will appear when you hover your mouse over a section of a paragraph to present retyped text automatically.
Microsoft also hasn’t announced when exactly Copilot will be available in OneNote. A small number of Microsoft 365 enterprise customers are currently testing a preview version of Copilot in apps like Word and Outlook, and some of those early versions could be enabled in beta versions of Word right now.