Microsoft plans to add its new Microsoft 365 Copilot assistant to OneNote. The software giant originally announced Copilot for apps like Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint last month, and now it’s ready to demonstrate how note-taking will be affected by an AI-powered assistant.
“As your note-taking partner, Copilot uses your prompts to write plans, brainstorm, create lists, organize information, and more.” explains Greg MaceOneNote Product Manager.
Like Copilot’s integration in Word, the AI assistant can retype, format, or summarize existing text in OneNote based on prompts in a sidebar interface. You can also ask the AI assistant to create a plan for an event or generate topics and talking points for meetings.
However, Microsoft has yet to show off Copilot’s online integration into OneNote. In the Word version, you can highlight paragraphs and the Copilot wizard will appear when you mouse over a section of the paragraph to offer automatically rewritten text.
Microsoft also hasn’t announced exactly when Copilot will be available on OneNote. A small number of Microsoft 365 enterprise customers are currently testing a preview version of Copilot in applications like Word and Outlook, and some of these early versions can be enabled in beta copies of Word right now.
I’ve been playing with Copilot’s private preview in Word recently, using it to output text. It’s a very early implementation right now, so there are a lot of missing features that need to be sorted out before it’s ready for public preview. Microsoft is heavily testing this before rolling it out more widely, and the company hasn’t yet committed to any dates for Copilot.
